How about giving yourself some more fundamental plans. Plans that really help you change your life for good. Its all very well dreaming about the ‘you’ in the future when everything is sorted and you have the life you have always wanted, but what will you need to do to get there? and how long does it take to put all these things in place? some things do really just take a long time to develop. Lots of nurturing and sustaining to make them become real and part of your life.

Why not start next year by laying out a plan of your wildest dreams. The dream alone may be something that keeps you going when things seem like life is too hard. Create a dream of a life that is realistic and achievable, but is creative enough to realise all your needs. So what are your needs? define them, list them. Leave them and come back to check and add to them when you think more about them all.

Then look at them all and find a plan for each that may take a year or maybe five years to achieve. Make that first step for each of them part of your new year’s resolution.

Good luck!!

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In midlife our metabolism slows. We have to accept and adjust perhaps for the first time, that we can not, and do not need to eat like we are growing teenagers anymore. Obesity is all around us and affects many of us simply because we choose to eat too much and exercise too little. Its as simple as that yet we try to avoid the truth of it. We all need to look at ourselves and be honest. We don’t need to eat so much, we don’t need vitamins as much since we can get them from a good diet. We need to exercise more.

What is wrong with simply eating fruit and vegetables, minimising processed food and other foods that don’t offer much nutritional value?.

What’s so hard about getting out and exercising once a day? just going for a walk, or bike ride, you don’t even need to spend money on an expensive gym either.

Why are we trying so hard to avoid just doing this? fruit, veg, exercise? are we so deluded that we have to now spend more money on vitamin tablets when the natural vitamins in fruit and vegetables are far more valuable to us?

Here is an interesting article on the issues around taking vitamin tablets. Stop today, throw them away and just eat more fruit and vegetables unless you feel morally committed to keeping the drug industry very healthy instead.

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