Ready or not here it comes

From our office holiday party...Roland and his harum

We all pretty much know how that famous poem starts…..Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Well, it isn’t quite the night before…but this weekend is the start of the last week before Christmas and I can tell you after being out and about today that there was much more than a mouse moving around the Santa Clarita Valley today. I think we got the last of our gift shopping done today so I am finally a little relieved. The final piece of the puzzle came into play when I purchased tickets for our family to go see the Cirque du Soleil show at the Kodak Theatre here in Los Angeles. I love the Cirque shows, but in particular the ones for the smaller venues.

The closure of buying gifts brings me to the best line I heard all holiday season when I asked someone last week if they were all set for Christmas. His answer “Is today December 24th?”. So to all of you procrastinators……good luck with the mobs in the coming week…I wish  

you well.
So right after Christmas/Chanukah comes New Years, that’s right it is right around the corner. Time to get ready for all your New Year’s resolutions that hopefully you will follow for next year and at the same time it is the perfect opportunity to reflect on the past year and what has been.
One of my passions in my professional and personal life is that of prevention. I have been taking steps all year long to try and increase my health so that I don’t have to depend on the medical system to fix me. I have chosen over the last few years to take greater responsibility for my own health.
I have changed my exercise routine to include more interval training…where I get my heartbeat racing a little faster, cool down, and then get it racing again for anywhere from 8-15 times in my workouts. It is helping me to maintain my weight and at the same time keep changing my body to where I am leaner than I have been in a long time.
I have changed my diet in several significant ways. First, I have stopped drinking diet sodas totally, and don’t drink anything that is sweetened with artificial sweeteners. Over the years I have given up diet soda but gone back to it because I got bored of the taste of water. Not anymore, there are drinks sweetened with Xylitol or Erythoritol (both naturally occurring sugars that don’t interact with bacteria in your mouth to cause cavities or affect your blood sugar or really anything bad) and different hot and cold teas (thanks Tevana) to drink these days.
Lately, I have gone to eating more vegetables compared to fruit. I usually ate way more fruit than veggies, but the last month or two I have been trying to switch the balance because I keep reading that your diet should be heavier in vegetables than fruit.. and I have found that I really look forward to eating them now.
The point I want to make with discussing my life style changes is that I did not promise to do all of them on New Year’s night; in fact, none of these were part of any resolutions. But I did make these changes over the period of a year. Think about it. Promising to make so many changes at once often proves to be the undoing of getting anything accomplished. But do one change every so often, make it a habit, and then add another change and you would be amazed at what you can accomplish.
In my life, one change every three months worked for me..maybe I can try for one every two months next year. But I want to make sure I stay with the changes I need to make.
So ready or not 2012 is on its way. I wish you all the luck in the world with your New Year’s Resolutions.

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