Living Great in 2008!
   By Koya Webb

This year is our year to shine! Time to put all the lessons we’ve learned to use and really make a difference in our lives! Yes! It’s time for a revelation! We all know what’s right and what’s wrong! When we do something wrong we will not make excuses for ourselves this year! We will immediately make it right!

Mental Fitness
Goal setting is the key to continued growth and happiness! Think about the last time you accomplished something you really worked hard for! Wouldn’t it be great to re- live that feeling on a weekly or even daily basis? You can rekindle that feeling by daily setting goals and celebrating when you achieve them! Let’s start by being SMART!   
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 The way we act and the things we do have to show that we are living the best life we know how to live.

 
This means specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time bound. For example: “Everyday I will practice mental fitness for 10 minutes, spiritual fitness for 20 minutes and physical fitness for 30 minutes.” Practicing everyday will increase my total fitness consistently throughout my lifetime! Now that we have a strong fit core, let’s explore other goals. What kind of family do we want? What kind of career do we want? What kind of education do we want? What amount of financial security do we want? What kind of pleasure do we want? What kind of expression do we want? What kind of public service do we want to do? All of our goals can be explored and spread out over a lifetime! When we evaluate each one, and explore the action steps it takes to achieve each one, we will find a sense of accomplishment with each step! Life will never be boring because we will always be accomplishing new goals!

Spiritual Fitness
Freedom of choice is our God given right! We consciously or unconsciously chose what we consider reality. The Law of Choices addresses our power and responsibility to choose how we respond to our circumstances. We are all responsible for our own actions and reactions. We may be influenced by outside forces, but we make the decision to resist or give in. We have the power of choice! We can choose to be positive or negative. We can take the easy road or the hard mountain. Life doesn’t just happen to us! We are responsible for creating our on reality! If we don’t like our job, friends, or purpose then we have to make better choices so that we have better outcomes! We choose what we want and don’t want in our lives! We can choose to create beauty in the world and express our talents to benefit the universe. Or, we can withdraw from society, bicker about the world around us, and stifle our talents away. It’s our choice!
Life is full of opportunities and choices. The more opportunities we take and the better choices we make, the better our lives will be!

Physical Fitness
Cardiovascular training can be aerobic or anaerobic. Aerobic means with oxygen and anaerobic means without. A list of benefits from aerobic exercise resembles that obtained with growth hormone: gain of muscles and strength, loss of fat, increased energy, greater well being and a decrease in anxiety and depression. Aerobic exercise, also increases the level of HDL cholesterol, lowers blood pressure, improves immune system and helps protect the body against a host of diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, and osteoporosis. Please before you inject yourself with growth hormone or pop another weight loss pill, do my interval training 3 times a week in addition to your daily 10-30 minutes of cardio!


10 min warm-up
5 min total body stretching
Sprint 50 meters (guessamate)
Walk back to your start
Repeat 5 times!
Cool down 10 minutes

This should only take 30 minutes total! Make time!