Wellness Challenge #4 Non-toxic Personal Products

July 7, 2011
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Wellness Challenge #4 Non-toxic Personal Products

How are you doing with the first three challenges? To recap, our last three goals are: Add only natural sweeteners to beverages such as stevia, a little raw organic sugar, and lo han. Avoid adding artificial sweeteners containing aspartame and sucralose to your beverages. The challenge was to start at home and eventually eliminate artifical sweeteners from your life entirely. Use non-toxic household cleaners. As you use up your...

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Wellness Challenge#3 – Upgrade Your Water Bottle

June 7, 2011
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Wellness Challenge#3 – Upgrade Your Water Bottle

The challenge for this week is to ‘boycott the disposable plastic water bottle’ for every day personal use. Several years ago we happily drank water from our taps and carried it in a thermos. That just shows the power of marketing to change our thinking and our habits. Even though this water may be a godsend during times of crisis, for the most part, it has created its own...

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Why Write My Goal and How Do I Do It?

June 7, 2011
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Dwight Thomas said, “It’s only a dream until you write it down, and then it becomes a goal.” Why is that? Researchers found that when a resolution was only voiced or thought, it usually went by the wayside within a week. If it was written down, there was a much greater chance it was being followed through on even months later. Writing your goal engages your subconscious mind. It...

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Wellness Challenge #2 – Green Cleaning

May 22, 2011
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Wellness Challenge #2 – Green Cleaning

This wellness challenge comes at the perfect time for spring cleaning. As you use up your petroleum based and chemical household cleaners, start switching to green cleaning products. The chemicals in standard cleaning products get into your skin when you touch them and into your lungs when you breathe them in. They can irritate your eyes, skin and lungs. If they can’t be removed by your organs of elimination,...

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Wellness Challenge: Reduce Your Use of Artificial Sweeteners

May 4, 2011
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If you limit or don’t use artificial sweeteners, you’ve already got this challenge nailed. Just post your comment on the blog here so we can give you a cheer (and your name goes in the prize hat). Do tell us if and how you sweeten your drinks instead. For you artificial sweetener users, listen up. To meet this weeks challenge, I’m asking you to stop adding artificial sweeteners to...

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Achieving Your Goals and Wellness Challenge

April 20, 2011
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Do you ever feel like this? You know what you need to do to take care of your health. You may even be an expert at preaching it. But you find it’s a lot harder to actually do it. I know I’m far from alone when it comes to this disconnect between what we know and what we do instead. It’s frustrating, isn’t it? Well, I don’t know about...

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