Without oversimplifying too much, I view the question of maintaining one’s body weight as matter pretty much of arithmetic. Leaving aside the question of nutrition (a topic I’ll take up in a future post), if you eat more calories in a day than you burn in a day, you’ll gain weight. If you eat fewer [...]
Given the media frenzy over less-than-wholesome celebrity relationships in recent years, you might feel inclined to measure your own relationship against an arbitrary media-imposed standard. This can lead to a tendency to over-analyze our personal (i.e. intimate) relationships. “Is he/she really the one?” “What if I meet someone else?” or the more threatening “What happens [...]
With respect to your health, on a scale of 1 to 10 where are you? Really? Answer honestly. Are you doing things to yourself that you would really rather not do? I read an interview with actor Ewan MacGregor a few months ago. He had been something of a hell-raiser. He chain-smoked and drank alcohol [...]
In my previous post I offered an exercise — sorry, you have do the exercises if you want to get in shape — which elicited from you the values you currently hold about your family. By ranking those values, you should have a conscious sense (perhaps for the first time) of what’s at stake as [...]
In the present economic climate there are many challenges to family life. One challenge is that if you have a job these days, your employer is probably demanding more and more time from you, leaving you with less time for your family. The kids want to see more of you and you’re simply not available [...]
