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Welcome to Health Talk Today. My name is Marilyn and I blog about health from a Baby Boomer perspective.
This is my first Blog Party and I’m really excited to be invited. I’m looking forward to visiting all the sites of the party-goers and comment on your blogs.
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I just had a wrestling match with my mattress pad. It’s thick, quilted and king size. The top and bottom edges are elastic to hold onto my over-stuffed, 15″ deep, pillow top mattress. It was late and I was tired. I stretched the elastic over one corner of the mattress and moved to the next corner. As soon as I touched the mattress cover, the first corner popped off. My cat, Cookie, just sat on the bare mattress watching me try over and over again to hold down the first corner as I stretched the pad to reach the second corner. After several attempts, I knew I needed to find another way. Then, it dawned on me … I needed to stretch the mattress pad diagonal to the first corner. That would keep tension on the first corner and hold it in place. It worked! Then, it was easy to do the other two corners. So, there’s the secret to replacing a mattress pad on a king size bed when you have to do it alone.
Everything you do falls into one of three categories:
Bad Work
Good Work
Great Work
Can you tell the difference?
I think we all need to do some of the Bad Work - The mindless, never-ending tasks that take up at least part of our day. They need to be done, so you either have to do them, not do them or hire someone to do them. Things like routine office tasks, paying the bills, vacuuming and shopping.
The Good Work is productive and rewarding. It’s getting the job done. You can spend all day - Every day - Doing Good Work. There is a sense of accomplishment in doing Good Work, but, it’s not moving you forward.
Great Work is exciting and scary. It means stepping out of your comfort zone. THIS is where you want to spend your time. It’s where the great minds work.
Here’s a fast paced video that I highly recommend watching …
As a Baby Boomer, I’ve earned the right to talk about the Good Old Days. When I was in school, my friends had names like Kathy, Mary, Susan, Robert, William and John. OK, so Marilyn isn’t one of the most common names. But, it wasn’t that unusual back then, either. I wasn’t named after Marilyn Monroe, but she was very popular back then. Dad wanted to name me Mary, like my mom. Mom wanted to name me after her mom, Eva, but update it to Evelyn. They settled on Marilyn. Good thing. I don’t think I’m an Evelyn! Funny how we grow into our name.
Today, I don’t meet many young people with common names. So, now the trend is unique names. But, the more they’re given, the more common they become. I’m thinking there’s always a Madison, Taylor, Logan and Jayden in every classroom. I hope there’s also a Kathy, Mary, Susan, Robert, William and John.
Here’s a database of the most popular baby names, sorted by state, by year and for the last 100 years. Surprisingly, some common names made the list.
Is your name on the list? How about your children and grandchildren?
I fell into the Dream Board trap - Big time. My Dream Board is ho-hum. Well, not all of it. There are parts that I love. Some of the images and text come from my heart and subconscious. But, after reading Martha Beck’s article “What The Heck’s A Vision Board—and How Can It Change Your Life?”, I have a new concept of what a Dream Board is and how it can work for me.
So, I’m off on a new adventure. Looking for, as Ms. Beck writes, “… combinations of objects and events that will stick in your subconscious mind and steer your choices toward making the vision real.” She recommends finding these images in magazines. But, I’ve got the whole World Wide Web to browse through.
I’m keeping my original Dream Board. I love that it’s wallpaper on my desktop. But, I’m going to surf the net with my heart and keep my eyes open. I’ll be collecting images, quotes and phrases that I love. It will be eclectic and maybe a little wacky. But, it will be mine. And soon, I’ll make a new Dream Board. After all, it’s a process - Learning as I go.
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Meet Marilyn
I’ve gone from green thumb to living green. After spending 20 years of summers out in the yard – planting flowers and vegetables, watering, weeding and reaping the harvest – I’m now going green with the realization that we need to take care of ourselves, our families and the earth. And I found a company to help me do it. I’m a Shaklee distributor.
So, now I’m into a more natural lifestyle. It didn’t happen overnight. It was a series of little changes that added up to a healthy lifestyle. And it doesn’t stop here. I continue to reevaluate and make little changes. Read the whole story.
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