Thursday, March 31, 2011

What I Learned About the B Vitamins

 

There are a list of B Vitamins, each with their own properties and influence on our system.  A complete set of B vitamins is called a 'Complex'.  You will find this at any grocery store with a pharmacy or any local pharmacy...even on-line.

All the B vitamins included in the Complex are:
Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B9, Vitamin B12 and the vitamins Biotin, Choline and Inositol.


Here are a few things that the B Complex Vitamins can do for you:
  1. Helps body produce energy:  B1 converts the carbohydrates we eat into glucose, the other B vitamins work to convert glucose in energy.
  2. Regulates and stabilized nervous system:  B vitamins help with the correct functioning of the adrenal glands and the production of some hormones and nerve-regulating substances.
  3. Helps with digestion:  B vitamins breakdown fats, proteins and carbohydrates
  4. Helps maintain healthy skin and hair: B Vitamins work to promote cellular reproduction

Thursday, March 24, 2011

3 Benefits of Green Tea


Daily consumption of Green Tea is a must!
Green tea will help you:
For more information, click the links provided.  Lots of great information is out there.
Happy Tea-Drinking Day!

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Memories Are the Fruit of Your Labour

A nice meal, great company and all of your efforts to gather a great group of people together to connect your circle of friends has come to fruitition.

You have worked hard to:
  • fit into your outfit
  • set the perfect table
  • create the most social atmosphere
  • provide for everyone's needs
  • clean the house
  • feel quite the host
Congratulations!  The fruits of your labour will become the stuff of which memories are made. 

Memories come in all shapes and sizes. They come from the moments that we reflect upon afterwards; they come from the facial expressions and touches throughout the day; they come from something we have heard or glimpsed; they come from all over at different times into our minds.

Be mindful of the fruit of your labour.  Don't let them slip away.  You will always have a bank of memories to draw upon....and unlike any other bank account, it continues to fill up even with withdrawals.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Reinvent Everyday


It takes courage to reinvent joys, to reinvent opportunities, to reinvent dreams, to reinvent connections, to reinvent hopes that you have set aside.

~Mary Anne Radmacher


I cannot think of anything else to say with this quote.  It is completely true and defines courage to a T.
Take a moment today to reflect on reinventing your own opportunities and dreams, making connections new and fresh and looking at your list of hopes and reminding yourself that they can be reality.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Which Way Do I Go?


"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."

- Henry David Thoreau

Picture yourself here.  Looking in the rearview mirror.   This guy looks like he has left something behind.  Or perhaps he missed something along the way.  Either way, can he go back?  Or is that going backward?
Perhaps he can take a moment and reflect on how he missed it or left it behind and understand why that happened.  Going back is usually not the solution to anything...only causing more harm than good. 

I had the opportunity to go back to a job I had moved on from once.  Fortunately, I got to spend a day shadowing in the role and realized that the job was no longer what I thought it was - it had evolved (or changed) and my perception of the role, while still the same, no longer matched the job.  Happily I moved on to something new and different, and better.

As Thoreau says - plan to go back....investigate, reflect and remember, but don't stay there!