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Do, Love, Hope. 10/18/2009
 
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The secret of happiness has been said to be:-

to have something to do,

something to love and

something to hope for. 

Those who are starting out this week on the

We are Slimming Spring into summer, Challenge

are setting out with these three secrets of happiness in their minds through goal plans and their hearts in the spirit of giving mutual support and encouragement to each other. 

Wishing all the starters in the Spring to Summer We are Slimming Challenge, all the very best of success, J 

Action:-Something to do.
I admire your positive spirit that you are ready to participate in setting goals, planning action plans and to do today lists, supporting and encouraging each other, asking for help where needed, this is where the friendship of a group forum excels. 

Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
–  Stephen Covey 

Love:-The something to love.
This is powerful stuff. J.  Learning to put your own needs first, take time to do what you want to do and need to do, to support yourself in achieving your goals. Learning that we are responsible for our own happiness, and understanding that no white knight in shining armour or magic mixture is responsible for making us happy is one of the greatest secrets to lhappiness. I always felt that needed to e taught in schools, it's so important, more important than the 3 R's.
This knowledge that it's not only OK to make time for yourself, but it's the best way to care for others, to show others by example that self reliance is the way to inner happiness, and fulfillment of goals, is quite liberating to others. No one wants to be burdened with feeling they are responsible for another's happiness. 
Self love and nurture, is the most unselfish act any one can do and something I think all of us slimmers and carers, need to work on. 

Something to do also involves the encouraging and support we give to others and when we strive to encourage others who are seeking similar goals to our own, it is a powerful motivating force, in helping to keep us following our own action plan toward our own goal.

The time when I lost my greatest amount of excess weight was when I was a forum participant working as an equal, one on one, with others encouraging me out of an invalid status, sedentary lifestyle while I in turn encouraged them to trust themselves around food and learn that slimming involved loving good food eaten regularly and it was no more about denial, hunger and deprivation dieting than it was about the opposite, binging, unhealthy or overeating. Together we applauded our achievements, offered encouragement during the disappointments and safe uncritical friendship when we needed to vent. We crossed the line from the triple digits to the double digits together and made wonderful life lasting friendships in the process.   
I am seeking to find this fellowship by taking a step upward and working with health profesionals in further studies of nutrition and fitness.
Something to hope for.

I’m leaving this area, BLANK – for you to fill in the space with YOUR DREAMSJ, Your future goals. Dream and Believe in YOU.
 
 


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