The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Take a walk

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    Sitting at your desk all day? Get up and walk around at least once an hour. That’s good advice from the October 18-24, 2015, issue of Weight Watcher Weekly. And, give yourself bonus points if you take time to drink a glass of water.

  • Good luck

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    Lucky people recognize chances, and they maximize them, says Dr. Richard Wiseman, professor of public understanding of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom and author of The Luck Factor. Unlucky people tend to be more anxious, which reduces the ability to notice the unexpected. Lucky people, Wiseman says, “see what is…

  • The perfect myth

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    “There is no universal agreement on perfection,” says author Elizabeth Gilbert. “There are people who think the Sistine Chapel is gaudy and Hemingway is a hack.” Perfection, Gilbert explains, is aspiring to something that literally does not exist. Elizabeth Gilbert was featured in the October 2015 issue of Southwest magazine.

  • Shifting gears

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    Sometimes, when you’ve been busy getting ready for a vacation, it’s difficult to slow down. This summer, when I was in Eureka Springs in a cabin on a hill, it took me two days to change my pace. But, one afternoon, I sat on the porch with a good book and enjoyed a cool breeze—and…

  • The best day

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    “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year,” Emerson once said.

  • The little things

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    “Delight in the little things,” Rudyard Kipling once said.

  • I’m walking again

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    It has been many months since I fell while walking my dog and shattered my femur. I had two surgeries. Then, I used a wheelchair and a walker. And, finally, a cane. Now I’m walking again. Without a cane! I am limping a bit, and I am a little slow. But, my good friend and…

  • Conquering my fears

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    Since my fall when I shattered my femur, I sometimes have been afraid—afraid that I’ll get too tired if we invite friends to our house for dinner and they stay too late, afraid that I’ll get too tired if I drive from Dallas to Denton to visit my daughter, afraid that I’ll be too tired…

  • The silence within yourself

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    “Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose,” Elizabeth Kubler-Ross once said.

  • Crowd your plate with vegetables

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    The Dallas Morning News considered the latest food trends and fads and concluded, in a headline, that we all need to “see past the hype.” In its Sunday, October 4, 2015, issue, the newspaper advised: “The best way to eat for most people isn’t found in fad diets or even stringent ones. Crowding your plate…