Daily Motivation | The Fit Shack

I’ve been writing quite a bit about your thoughts, because it is my experience that my thoughts are what lead me to either a path of motivation -> action -> accomplishment, or down a path of defeat (no motivation) -> inaction -> regrets. What makes the difference in where I end up? - how [...]

Are you familiar with the teachings of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale?
I first read The Power of Positive Thinking when I was a kid, somewhere between the ages of 10 - 12. I picked it back up again and have been reading it over the past couple of months. Even better is a cassette tape [...]

You’ve heard the saying before, “You Are What You Eat”? Well the same holds true for what you think: you are what you think about (all day long!). What you create in your life, from your relationships, to your job, to your body, all starts with those thoughts you have running around in your head. [...]

A sure way to kill your motivation is to eat foods that you cannot stand in order to lose weight. For example, remember that cabbage soup diet? Well, I’ll bet that many of the people who tried it could not stomach the thought of cabbage, much less cabbage soup. However, they ate it anyway because [...]

Earlier this week I wrote about taking your weight loss goals/progress one day at a time, since it can be overwhelming to look at the long-term when you are just beginning. When you feel overwhelmed, this can sap your motivation. I’d like to expand on the idea of one day at a time and make [...]

I admit that I was not a follower of Tammy Faye Messner, and sadly it has taken her illness and death for me to learn just what a positive individual she was. Here I am, striving to keep my thoughts positive and to pass positive, motivational thoughts and material on to you, and I honestly [...]

It’s easy to become overwhelmed with your weight loss goals, whether you need to drop 100 lbs to reach a healthy weight, or 30 lbs. Besides the feeling of overwhelm when beginning the process of weight loss, change in itself is a challenge for many people. When you want to lose weight (in a healthy [...]

Once again, here are several blog carnivals for you to look through this weekend. They contain articles that I submitted as well as articles that other bloggers submitted, all based on the particular topic of the carnival. All of these carnivals share the theme of health.
I encourage you to read through them and see if [...]