Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the international medical humanitarian organization, has been providing an annual list of the “Top Ten” humanitarian crises since 1998 in an effort to generate greater awareness of the magnitude and severity of crises that may or may not be reflected in media accounts.
Then head over to this bakery in Bangkok, Thailand where artist Kittiwat Unarrom creates grotesque and gruesome bread sculptures - hands, feet, heads, torsos, and many other body parts - that appear almost real in his family’s bakery.
Something to file away for the next time you are in Bangkok - there are even tours of this Human Bakery
Well, it’s finally happened. A Nintendo Wii and it’s companions, Wii Sports and Wii Fit, arrived at the house today. And they’ve been the center of everyone’s attention ever since
After the initial set up, all Wii Sports and many of the Wii Fit exercises have been tried out by one and all.
And I can’t see it stopping any time soon.
So far, I’ve discovered that my Wii Fit age is way older that my real age, that my balance is non-existant, and that I’ve got a lot of work to do. But I’m not complaining - Wii Fit and Wii Sports make it look like improving my fitness is going to be nothing but fun.
Having somewhere safe to carry your keys, wallet, cell phone etc while walking, running, and exercising is a real problem. We all have different ways of dealing with it, but I think Gracie’s Gear has the answer - a top with plenty of compartments to place things.
Two lucky Healthbolt readers will soon find out how useful this is.
New Year’s resolutions - so easy to come by but so hard to keep.
And that’s why, after years of failing to follow through with my New Year’s resolutions, I decided a few years ago to throw away the list and start looking at the concept in a different light.
What if, I thought, I created a list of evergreen resolutions that reflected not short term goals but a lifestyle philosophy?
Last year I found my evergreen resolutions on some decorative tiles while at a garden center purchasing a lemon tree to replace the one I had killed (good news - one year later said lemon tree still alive and growing enough lemons to make lemonade).
And this year, my New Year’s evergreen resolutions were re-affirmed with this coffee mug I got as a Christmas present…
Inspiration, it seems, appears in the strangest places.
Dancelike no one is watching
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Love like you’ve never been hurt before
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Sing like no one is listening
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Live as though heaven is on earth
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But the coffee mug seems to be missing one very important fact…
Wow. Looks like everyone wants one of these amazing toothbrushs, including me. The Oral B Pulsonic puts my supermarket bought battery operated Colgate toothbrush to shame.
But, unfortunately, there is only one Oral B Pulsonic to give away.
And the lucky Healthbolt reader is…
Reva Skie
Congratulations Reva Skie. You’ll be getting an email shortly with instructions on how to claim your prize.
As for the rest of us - well, I don’t know about you but I’m seriously thinking of upgrading my toothbrush. If nothing else, it will sure make my dentist happy.
So, have you made your New Year’s resolutions yet?
You know, the ‘I’m going to lose weight, stop smoking, go to the gym, eat healthier, be nicer, get richer, etc, etc, etc’ type of resolutions.
If you have, good luck. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you.
And if you haven’t, my advice is ‘don’t bother’.
Did you know that most people who make New Year’s resolutions fail dismally within the first month or two of the new year?
A UK study of 3,000 people found that in the end, only about 400 managed to stay on track and achieve their resolutions.
That’s pretty grim statistics.
Why so bad?
Well, according to all the ‘experts’, it’s mostly because we…
- have too many resolutions
- the resolutions are too vague
- don’t plan ahead on how we are going to manage the resolution
- don’t set achievable goals
- aim for giant leaps rather than baby steps
In other words, we handicap ourselves from the get go.
So what to do if you feel the need to make New Year’s resolutions?
Well, Dr. Pamela Dodd, co-author of The 25 Best Time Management Tools & Techniques: How to Get More Done Without Driving Yourself Crazy, suggests that you can increase the success rate of your New Year’s Resolutions if you do the following:
Prioritize what you want to accomplish. It’s impossible to accomplish everything. If your list is too long you won’t accomplish any of it. Pick your top 1-3 goals and focus on those. Not only will those have a better chance of getting done, but once you’re on your way to accomplishing them, you can then move on to other goals on your list.
Reduce information overload. When you have too much information coming in, your brain can’t handle it. You end up accomplishing little and wasting time managing it all. The antidote is to unsubscribe, toss out, pare down, and be very selective about the information you do allow to reach you.
Learn to say no. Too many people say yes to everyone and end up with little or no time left to do what’s important to them. If you say no, you’re telling yourself and others what’s important to you. Not so oddly, that’s what you’ll end up getting done and getting done well.
By the way, stop by tomorrow to find out what my New Year’s resolutions are…
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