Enjoy Life More

Do you ever wish you could have more energy? Maybe you'd like to enjoy life more? Do you want to have better health and happiness?

Here's a healthy goal for anyone: sweat every day; not a mere perspiration, but a good, old-fashioned sweat.

If you're tired of the gym, try a fun alternative. Start with walking and shed around 240 calories per hour at a moderate pace. Pick up the pace and torch off even more unwanted pounds! Try something new. Ballet or swimming laps burns around 422 calories each hour. Not into wearing tights? Get on your bicycle and burn 275 calories per hour!

Take a break. You may burn more fat when you break an hour long workout into two 30-minute sessions. Give yourself a 15 or 20-minute rest in between and the boost may continue after you exercise. Keeping well-hydrated and replacing fluids lost
during exercise is also a key part of feeling good and getting the most out of your workout.

Get your hands dirty. Gardening gives you as much of a workout as walking or golf, a recent study reported. Plus: The weight-bearing motions involved in digging and pulling weeds can strengthen bones and muscle.

Get out your mp3 player and exercise to music. Research shows that listening to your favorite tunes while working out help keep you going up to 10 or 15 percent longer!

Are you - like so many of us - hoping to lose a few pounds? Two vital keys are keeping energy intake (food) and energy output (physical activity) in balance. When you consume only as many calories as your body needs, your weight will usually remain constant. If you take in more calories than your body needs, you will put on excess fat. If you expend more energy than you take in you will burn excess fat.

Exercise plays an important role in weight control by increasing your energy output, calling on stored calories for extra fuel. Recent studies show that not only does exercise increase metabolism during a workout, but it causes your metabolism to stay increased for a period of time after exercising, allowing you to burn off even more calories! You really can exercise and lose weight fast!

Enjoy and Live the Life of Your Dreams

Is there a secret to finding greater happiness and a higher sense of self esteem? For many the secret is really no big mystery after all. People who exercise most days of every week are often happier, more contented and seem to just plain enjoy life more!

A happy person is one who has learned to find or make their own sense of well-being and happiness. Their peace of mind may not always come from ideal conditions, but from the actual ones about them. The man and woman who master the secret will not wait for ideal surroundings. They will not wait until next year, next decade, until they get rich, or until they can travel abroad. They may not have the financial resources to surround themselves with art works of the great masters. They simply make the most out of life to-day!

What have you got to lose? Try investing some time in yourself each day. Get some good old fashioned exercise. Exercise is a proven way to reduce stress and improve your self esteem.

Out of shape? Maybe you haven’t been exercising much for far too long? ( Winter makes it so easy to stay indoors and pass on healthy outdoor activities. ) Why not start today! Make today your new Day 1 – filled with simple exercises anyone can do. Go for a walk. Walk as fast as you can for as far as you care to.

The key is to work your body hard and feel those mood lifting endorphins kick in. Enjoy the natural high vigorous exercise gives you. You’ll probably soon find yourself feeling better and looking better! Build your self esteem, and enjoy life a whole lot more when you get some exercise every day!

Exercise for Greater Happiness

Health and good humor, noted a famous philosopher,  are to the human body like sunshine is to lush, green  vegetation.


The late Charles A. Dana fairly bubbled over with the enjoyment of his work, and was, up to his last illness, at his office every day. A Cabinet officer once said to him: "Well, Mr. Dana, I don't see how you stand this infernal grind."

"Grind?" said Mr. Dana. "You never were more mistaken. I have nothing but fun."

   "No Way!" was a favorite expression of his; a slang word used to express uncommon pleasure, such as had been afforded by a trip abroad, or by a run to Mexico ( remember when it was actually safe to visit old Mexico? ) , or by the perusal of something especially pleasing in the daily newspaper.

"One of my neighbors is a very ill-tempered man," said Nathan Rothschild. "He tries to vex me, and has built a great place for swine close to my walk. So, when I go out, I hear first, 'Grunt, grunt,' then 'Squeak, squeak.' But this does me no harm. I am always in good humor."

Offended by a pungent article, a gentleman called at the "Tribune" office and inquired for the editor. He was shown into a little seven-by-nine sanctum, where Greeley sat, with his head close down to his paper, scribbling away at a two-forty rate. The angry man began by asking if this was Mr. Greeley. "Yes, sir; what do you want?" said the editor quickly, without once looking up from his paper. The irate visitor then began using his tongue, with no reference to the rules of propriety, good breeding, or reason. Meantime Mr. Greeley continued to write. Page after page was dashed off in the most impetuous style, with no change of features, and without paying the slightest attention to the visitor. Finally, after about twenty minutes of the most impassioned scolding ever poured out in an editor's office, the angry man became disgusted, and abruptly turned to walk out of the room. Then, for the first time, Mr. Greeley quickly looked up, rose from his chair, and, slapping the gentleman familiarly on his shoulder, in a pleasant tone of voice said: "Don't go, friend; sit down, sit down, and free your mind; it will do you good,—you will feel better for it. Besides, it helps me to think what I am to write about. Don't go."

"One good hearty laugh," says Talmage, "is like a bomb-shell exploding in the right place, and spleen and discontent like a gun that kicks over the man shooting it off."

"Every one," says Lubbock, "likes a man who can enjoy a laugh at his own expense,—and justly so, for it shows good humor and good sense. If you laugh at yourself, other people will not laugh at you."

People differ very much in their sense of humor. As some are deaf to certain sounds and blind to certain colors, so there are those who seem deaf and blind to certain pleasures. What makes me laugh until I almost go into convulsions moves them not at all.

Is it not worth while to make an effort to see the funny side of our petty annoyances? How could the two boys but laugh, after they had contended long over the possession of a box found by the wayside, when they agreed to divide its contents, and found nothing in it?

The ability to get on with scolding, irritating people is a great art in doing business. To preserve serenity amid petty trials is a happy gift. Exercise is a great way to help yourself deal with life's inevitable obstacles - in any form. A happy go lucky, even tempered person is always welcomed in a favorable light. Don't let yourself get jaded by those unfortunate souls who fail to see life's blessings.

A sunny temper is also conducive to health. A medical authority of highest repute affirms that "excessive labor, exposure to wet and cold, deprivation of sufficient quantities of necessary and wholesome food, habitual bad   lodging, sloth, and intemperance are all deadly enemies to human life, but they are none of them so bad as violent and ungoverned passions;" that men and women have frequently lived to an advanced age in spite of these; but that instances are very rare in which people of  feisty, bitter tempers live to extreme old age.

Want More Happiness?

 Strength develops in direct proportion to the difficulty of the environment. There is no substitute for hard work. If you work your body hard you can expect awesome results!

Found the following excerpt in a centuries old book about success:

It would seem almost unnecessary to suggest the ordinary regimes for health of body. Nevertheless, I shall refer to these regimes because, first, their importance cannot be overestimated, and secondly because they involve certain laws of laws in relation to health which are seldom worked out in hygienic instruction.

What may be called the laws of laws of health would seem to be as follows:

1. Scrupulous Cleanliness of the Body, Without and Within, Makes for Royal Health-Tone. The law should be given rational, not slavish, obedience. Your body and your deeper self are in a constant state of interaction. Material uncleanness consented to contaminates that self. Uncleanness of the self also contaminates the body. A good life requires the clean dress of honored flesh. You are invited, therefore, to affirm always and practically,

    This robe I wear of unsoiled flesh
    Keeps mind and spirit ever fresh.

2. Sweet, Sound and Early Sleep Gives the Universal Forces their Perfect Opportunity for Good. During sleep the Universal Thought strives to restore, as our conditions permit, harmony of vibrations between its manifests in matter within the body and its manifests in the non-material self. The degree of harmony is made less in all cases by centuries of wrong living, the effects of which are more or less accumulated by inheritance in every man and woman (right living, however, promising in the future perfect freedom there-from on earth), and by the disturbing power of individual wrong living. In order, then, to secure the best results of sleep, our waking thought should be kept in attune, by all practical as well as by all idealizing methods, with reality, truth, beauty and goodness. You are invited, for the reason suggested, to live during the day in such a manner that your last fearless thought at night may be,

    "Let my soul walk softly in me,
       Like a saint in heaven unshod,
     For to be alone with Silence
       Is to be alone with God."

3. The Utility of Nourishment Issues From Conformity to the Plan of the Universal Forces for Each Individual. For every human body there is a plan on which it is intended to be evolved and maintained. The individual plan is merely a variation of the general plan of our common human nature. That general plan provides for certain foods and kinds of drink, for the manner in which they are to be taken and digested, and for their utilization in building and sustaining the body. 

This general plan is varied for different persons in the primary intention of the nature of things. Your food and drink, therefore, should depend upon your own peculiar needs. The science of the matter investigates the kinds of nourishment which you in particular require and advises all items furnishing the material elements you demand. 

But some individual variations, in respect to questions of taste, usefulness and harmfulness, digestibility and adaptation, are undoubtedly results of restrained liberty and wrong thought-life in the past, either of your ancestors or of yourself. 

That degree of liberty, therefore, which ought to be yours, has perhaps, come to be more or less limited. It is possible for you to secure a desirable enlargement of freedom with regard to food and drink. Of course you have no liberty in the way of natural poisons and beverages which dethrone common sense. Aside from the limits set by Nature, you may acquire the largest measure of personal freedom in the matter if you will determine therefor in the exercise of sound reason. 

It is for you to bring yourself more nearly to the original plan for human bodies in this respect, if you will begin with your inner thought-life and proceed more or less in the following manner:

(a). By insisting upon a LARGER FREEDOM, not in the way of demanding one thing or another, but in the way of realizing in your deeper self the idea of power therefor;

(b). By endeavoring constantly to bring your thought-life more and more into HARMONY WITH LIFE IN NATURE;

(c). By affirming that the food and drink of which you partake will surely enjoy Better Health and buoyancy of the body; not merely stating the proposition, but, while so partaking, believing the truth and assuming it to be true—actual for you;

(d). By manifesting at all times the mood of blended COURAGE, HOPE, CONFIDENCE, HAPPINESS;

      Relays of races, rugged and long,
       Up the peaks rising and blending!
     Wine for the daring, meat for the strong,
       Power with toil contending!
    "Higher! Yet higher!" the man's full song—
      "Never a last ascending!"

Exercise Equals More Happiness

Some University did a study recently of successful people and their level of happiness. The findings were somewhat surprising. It wasn't about the money. Sure money can buy lots of cool stuff and help alleviate tons of common worry. These successful women and men - at least those who seemed to be the most content and at ease with their lives - shared several common traits - and habits.

They had a variety of interests and enjoyed playing as much ( or more ) than their chosen profession! They almost all believed in God and attended a Church regularly! They held family and friends quite high on their list of priorities. And the biggest majority of these content and fun-loving success stories exercises almost every day! They used exercise to help balance their lives and keep their stress levels to a manageable level!

These captains of life - enjoyed having fun - and had a variety of interests to enjoy and play at. They tended to enjoy eating healthy and staying fit. Their zest for life and living to the fullest was a persistent trait.

I'm no expert on happiness or financial success. But it sounds like these men and women - who all enjoy great success in their respective careers - have found many of the secrets to a better life!

Enjoy a variety of healthy pleasures! Have fun. Lots of it!

Eat well and Exercise frequently. Frequent exercise and healthy eating have both been associated with lowering stress and warding off depression.

Find a good Church - and believe in whatever you hold God to be!

Decide to be happy!

Pursue multiple interests.

Work Hard.

Play Harder!

If you want to live a happier life - start with exercise. Exercise - of any kind you choose - is one key to more vitality and better balance! If you're out of the exercise habit - start today - start getting in shape fast and you'll be on the road to more fun and a better life!

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