Organizing your Health and Fitness
By Mildred Munjanganja | June 21, 2010
“If you don’t have your health, you have nothing!”
You have to make time to take care of your most valuable asset, because without it, you genuinely have nothing. There are some illnesses that you cannot control, but there are a lot of things that you can do to prevent the illnesses that are within your control.
1. Determine your current state of health. Check your weight, blood pressure, vision, dental health and full body. It’s important to know where you are and where you should be.
2. Set achievable goals based on where you should be. If your doctor tells you that you are 30lbs over weight, the goal is fairly clear, lose 30 lbs. Break it down into smaller goals that you can track and achieve. Write all your goals down and be as specific as possible.
3. Write down specific actions you need to do to achieve your goal e.g. If your goal is to exercise 3 times per week. Write down which 3 days you will dedicate to working out, what time you will work out on those days, how long the workouts will be and exactly what you plan on doing during that time. You can prepare this weekly or monthly but make sure you have it.
4. Now use your calendar to make appointments for your future check-ups, weigh-ins etc and stick to these appointments. For instance, every year the month of my birthday, I do a full body physical. My birthday serves as an excellent reminder.
You owe it to your future to get this part of your life on track. Enjoy it.
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Rules To Live By - Part 2
By Mildred Munjanganja | March 4, 2010
I was reflecting on the New Year’s resolutions I made in January, wondering if I had actually been living by them or if they had just been noble ideas to make myself feel like I had purpose. It made me pull out an e-mail I received at the beginning of the year, I shared half of it with you in an earlier post and here’s the other half, very thought provoking:
1. Call your family often
2. Each day give something good to others
3. Forgive everyone for everything
4. Spend time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6
5. Try to make at least 3 people smile each day
6. What other people think of you, is none of your business’
7. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick – your friends will, stay in touch.
8. Do the right thing, all the time
9. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful
10. However good or bad a situation is, it will change
11. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up
12. The best is yet to come
I absolutely love this list. Imagine living your life everyday believing that you have hardly tapped your potential and all the good things in your life can and will be surpassed. They say you should always dream when you are awake, I say our lives are what we make them and when we go about the business of creating who we want to be, we become the real masters of our own destiny.
Topics: Mind, Body & Spirit | 1 Comment »
How to get rid of unwanted clutter!
By Mildred Munjanganja | February 22, 2010
I like to throw stuff out. Yes I said it, and I meant it. Getting rid of things that are just hanging out and serving no greater purpose gives me relief. This applies to every category of my life. If I have a friendship that I think is not healthy for me after I have given everything in my power to make it work, I gracefully walk away from it. If I have stuff that are just building clutter in my life, I let them go.
I even get excited about it, you can’t just come to my place and leave things hanging around, you will find them trashed, and donated, recycled….something will happen to them [I will try to give them back first – promise]. Read full entry »
Topics: Clutter Control, Personal Organizing | 3 Comments »
Getting organized by getting things out of your head!
By Mildred Munjanganja | February 8, 2010
Have you ever wondered how cluttered your brain must be? How many ideas, thoughts, ‘things to do’ have you had floating in there for an indefinite period of time. Can you imagine how draining it must be to carry things in your head, things that really should have been handled at one point or the other – as long as you have incomplete and undecided things in your mind, your brain will have to continue working on them until they are completed. How many unfinished things do you honestly think your brain can handle before you start suffering from stress, fatigue, burn-out and other such symptoms?
Right this second, grab a piece of paper and right down everything….big or small, personal or work related, urgent or not, every single thing that you have ever thought you need to do. Do it in an excel spreadsheet or on a numbered piece of paper, your list will look something like this:
1. Take old clothes to Salvation Army
2. Clean out trunk
3. Take PowerPoint lessons
4. Lose 10lbs
5. Lower credit card interest
6. Look into marketing project
7. Get puppy
8. Submit living will
9. Call Aunt Eunice
10. Talk to Juan about that thing he does that annoys me
Can you imagine the amount of bandwidth you are able to clear from your head once everything is written down? Whenever you are trying to focus on a given task and your mind starts to wonder, have you ever evaluated where your mind wonders to? It likely focuses on things that are incomplete and need to be attended to. This then leads to worry and then stress. Once you have EVERYTHING written down, start tackling the list one at a time, and determine what action item needs to be done to get the task complete.
Topics: Business - Office, Clutter Control, Mind, Body & Spirit | 3 Comments »
Rules to Live By
By Mildred Munjanganja | January 11, 2010
2009 was awesome - I can safely attribute the success of last year to a commitment to discipline that was difficult to master at times and darn-right impossible at others. I am still marveled when I analyze the year trying to determine what small things I did that led to big successes and evaluating the habits that I developed to gain those successes. Only through understanding the formulae for your past successes can replicate and improve it! The conclusion is fairly simple to draw – do something every day that makes your life or someone else’s life better!
I received an e-mail from a friend that I thought was a good place to start, it had some ideas on the rules we can live by to improve our personalities in 2010, enjoy:
1. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
2. Don’t have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment. [People with road rage can understand how it feels to get completely worked up over something they have absolutely no control over…it is worth it?]
3. Don’t overdo. Keep your limits. [I am guilty as charged!!!!! I tend to overdo everything, food, workouts, sacrificing, emotion…everything. I will make this a personal goal for this year] Read full entry »
Topics: Mind, Body & Spirit | 2 Comments »
A great blog directory
By Mildred Munjanganja | January 6, 2010
I thought I would share thinks - there are some great blogs in this catalog.
http://www.blogcatalog.com/directory/lifestyle
Have fun.
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5 Issues Facing Working Women in 2010
By Mildred Munjanganja | January 4, 2010
The excitement of the holidays has died down and you are still fired up by the resolutions you made on January 1st - suddenly it hits you, you still have some of the same worries you had last year. Below are 5 issues facing working women in 2010 and some simple tips on how to tacke them.
1. Staying current: It has been reported that women earn the majority of college degrees and hold middle management positions but few are able to reach senior management level. One of the challenges women face is the time to stay current or find avenues for continued professional growth once they have children. It becomes more difficult to travel for work leaving behind your family and any professional development courses that can be taken at night pose the same problem. I often see very capable women who have the opportunity to be involved in a remote project that will have a huge impact on their career development, but are unable to make the commitment due to family commitments - very few men in the same situation would decline.
Solution: Do online courses that you can do at night and seek work-related projects that can be completed during business hours in your city that will have a huge impact on your career. Read full entry »
Topics: Business - Office | 2 Comments »
How to organize your closet.
By Mildred Munjanganja | December 30, 2009
Start purging! Anything that is not flattering, that you have not worn in a long time and is not seasonal, things you do not absolutely love and anything that does not project that image you want to show the world must go! You will suddenly have enough open space to organize your closet.
Below are a few tips you can employ right away to get your closet organized: Read full entry »
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The 5 Phases of Mastering Workflow: Phase 1.
By Mildred Munjanganja | December 28, 2009
In his book: ‘Getting Things Done’ – David Allen describes the five stages of mastering workflow as:
1. Collect – putting together the things that need our attention
2. Process –understanding them and determining what needs to be done with them
3. Organize – managing them in a way that makes sense
4. Review – examining the options of what we want to do with them
5. Do – putting a plan into action and actually doing something about them
Today, we will focus on collecting! If you have ever collected a pile of papers with the intention of filing them away and the pile still stares at you for weeks, then you are essentially paralyzed in the collection phase. Every phase must be followed consistently and separately in order to allow you to get organized.
Where do you begin? David Allen recommends starting by looking at anything in your personal or professional life that you believe needs to be different. It doesn’t matter how big or trivial it may seem, as long as you want to commit yourself to seeing a change in that facet of your life, then it needs to be on your list. Read full entry »
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3 Tips on becoming the driver of your life.
By Mildred Munjanganja | December 22, 2009
How do things happen in your life? By accident? As a result of other influences or are you able to directly associate change in your life to actual actions that you did? For instance, if you are out of work, is it because you were downsized, fired or pushed out of the job or is it because you decided to go to school to further your education or you quit to start your own business or be a stay at home parent? Whatever the situation, were you the driver or was it forced upon you? Below are a few tips to help you become the driver of your life.
1. Audit your current situation – is this what you want to be doing? Are you happy? How did you get here? Ask these questions regarding your weight, your finances, your job, your relationships etc– you will be amazed at what you discover. Read full entry »
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