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Healthy You Challenge 2012 Week 28

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 04:17 PM PDT

Hi everyone! Life is calm around here and I'm so happy! We have Canada Day going on and the 4th of July holiday in the USA, I know a lot of you are probably dodging temptation left and right. I'm looking to this holiday as a chance to find balance. I may indulge a little but I'm going to balance it with extra exercise. What is your strategy for handling this holiday or any summer party obstacles?

Wishing your life away

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 05:56 AM PDT

The past few weeks have left me with a lot of wishing moments. Wishing the doctor would call with the test results, wishing it would stop raining. wishing the flooding would go away. I've also wished away time. We all do it, we've all sat in the movie theater waiting for the movie to start and wishing it was start time already or in the office wishing it was 5pm so we could go home. I remember when I was a child saying to my dad I wished it was Sunday because we were going to the lake to go swimming and he said to me "kiddo you're wishing your life way" it wasn't just the lake of course and I think its normal for a child to look forward to exciting events and wish for them to come faster. But there is a difference between wishing for something good and wishing time away.

Time is a funny thing, when we're kids it doesn't move fast enough and when we're adults it moves far too fast. Lately its been flying by. I've come to realize that I've spent far too much time wishing and not enough time acting. We all get caught up in routines and while routine isn't necessarily a bad thing we shouldn't adhere to routine so tightly that we forget to stop and enjoy life along the way. When you wish time away you end up spending so much time focused on getting to a certain place or event that you waste those precious moments in between.

Every minute is precious. Think about this waiting situation. You're in a restaurant and you've placed your order and you know its going to be a wait for your food, you don't just sit there and wish for your food, you engage in conversation with the people you're with, you take the time to hear about their day or catch up with their life. Or if you're dining alone you might read a book or get out the phone and catch up on emails.

Don't be the old lady on her deathbed wishing she'd done this or that, take those moments of in between and do something productive instead of just wishing your life away only to find out that life is over, life has passed you by because the time that has passed is something you can't ever get back.

Time will pass, minutes will tick away, will you have spent those minutes in a valuable way or will you have regrets?