Live Healthier Resolution #NewYearBooks #SundaySalon
Good morning, one and all — and especially the Sunday Salon and New Year’s Resolution Challenge participants.
We’re into the last week of January — how are your New Year’s Resolutions going? This is our second-to-last link-up for the New Year’s Resolution Challenge. There are more details at the sign-up post. Or, you can just jump right in here. The link-up below is for progress reports, book reviews, and your best suggestions of books that support common New Year’s Resolutions. Or, you can play along in the comments.
I completed the book I wanted to read for my Live Healthier resolution. I’ll link to the review of A Short Guide to a Long Life by David B. Agus below. From the perspective of my resolution, the book assured me that when I’m at the top of my game I’m doing pretty well — which is motivating. I’ve been motivated with New Year energy this month, so I’ve been at the top of my game. Now, I just need to keep it up!
For me, I know from experience that motivation isn’t enough. I need structure. That’s why I set up the Healthy Lifestyle Books Reading Challenge of 2015, so that I’ll keep reading books like this for the whole year. My next pick will directly help me build structure to sustain my healthy life choices — Thinfluence by Walter Willett, Malissa Wood, and Dan Childs. On the cover, thinfluence is defined as “the powerful and surprising effect friends, family, work, and environment have on weight.” Walter Willett is one of my heroes in the weight loss world for consistently looking at the scientific research and pulling out what has been proven to work and what hasn’t. He’s a voice for reason in the face of whatever the latest diet trend is.
So, I have two books left to meet my New Year’s Resolution Reading Challenge. Do More Great Work by Michael Bungay Stanier proved to be a workbook, which is a bit more effort than just reading. I’m getting some good results, so I’ll keep plugging along with it.
My last book is our Read Along book for the New Year, The War of Art. It’s a short book — you could still catch up if you want to join us for the last discussion. Let me know if you want to participate. I’ll send out discussion questions on Wednesday in advance of our final discussion post on Saturday.
A Twitter Chat. Next Sunday, we’ll chat about The War of Art, creativity, and our New Year goals in a Twitter Chat. Join us on February 1 at 9PM Eastern / 8 Central / 7 Mountain / 6 Pacific / 5 Alaskan / 4 Hawaiian. It will be a great way to start the second month of 2015 energized to continue making it a great year.
In order to spread the word more widely about the Read Along, the Healthy Lifestyle Books Reading Challenge, and the Twitter chat, I’m linking this post to two Sunday link-ups. Check out Small Victories Sunday at Mom’s Small Victories for posts about living well. The Spread the Love Linky Party collects bookish posts.
You are pressing on, and I admire you for that. You inspire all of us.
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I just went back and read your review of A Short Guide To A Long Life. Hmmm. Walking? Who knew?
What I need to do vs. what I’m doing now. How to get there. As Deb said, though, “you inspire all of us.”
I like the idea of combining structure with motivation. Good luck and enjoy! And thanks for visiting my blog.
Great idea! The past 6 months have been such a whirlwind – change of jobs, false start on a new one…. trying to move forward on my writing… I am hopeful for a great 2015. So far – so good
One of my conflicts with healthy living, exercising, moving more etc. is that I love to read — and reading is (usually) sedentary. It’s a couch sport — not that good for the body.
So I’ve tried reading on the floor — but I do prefer the couch or even bed!
I sometimes walk slowly around the house while reading! It helps with the step count on my FitBit.
I would have to walk very slowly, but is worth a try.
I just read your comment and it cracked me up about reading while walking around the house. I’ll admit to it too but just because I am so enthralled with a book but if the benefit is there too, that’s great. I usually listen to books on tape as I do housework, gardening or cooking, frees my hands!
All I can say is it is hard, hard, hard. I’ve had an incredibly stressful month at work and most of the strategies I’ve been trying to implement failed – my food journal lasted only one week. Then I attended a work conference five hours away and every healthy habit I’d been working on went to the wayside – unfortunately, I didn’t read the section in Beck Diet for Life on food pushers until I got home. I’m picking up the pieces though and keeping with it. I’ve been eating healthy since I got home for the most part and trying to exercise again. I’ve found planning helps the most.
Also, thank you for the books – I can’t wait to get started. I haven’t been reading much lately either. When I’m stressed I can’t concentrate.
So love this challenge and the inspiration you give to help us get healthy. I’m going to put A Short Guide to a Long Life on my to read list. Thanks for sharing with Small Victories Sunday!
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