Live with passion “Let the world know you’re here, and do it with passion.” -Dr Wayne Dyer It is demoralising and often terrifying when you feel like your life has no purpose or direction, but finding your passion can change all that. Finding your passion is like finding your personal road map. When you know what your passion is, you feel motivated, inspired, and so much clearer about what your next step should be. If you’d like to live your life with more passion, follow up with these 7 Rules to Live by for Those Who Live With Passion. You may also like My article on how to invent your own ..read more

Break the monotony We can all get accustomed to a certain lifestyle. Waking at a certain time, eating certain foods, and doing things the same way each day. During the winter months, with fewer daylight hours, we often feel we want to hibernate away. But being in the full throws of summer means we have the opportunity and are more motivated to make some positive changes to our lifestyle. So how can you change your summer lifestyle? Look at your diet Your diet is one of the biggest things that can make a difference in your lifestyle. What you put into your body is ordinarily what you get out of ..read more

Pulling a muscle Working out is all fun and games until you pull a muscle. A pulled muscle is no joke; it’s muscle damage and it’s caused by too much pressure on an over-stretched muscle. You can do this just as easily while walking down a flight of stairs as you can working out at the gym, but when you’re at the gym, you can really feel it! The first thing that you will want to do (other than cry) is start looking for the nearest physiotherapist to help you out with the pain, but what you really need to do is pay attention to the issue at hand and start thinking about looking after the muscle ..read more

What is P90X3? The P90X3 Workout and Diet Plan is a package created by the world-renowned trainer and fitness guru Tony Horton and has become a hugely popular home fitness system. It has been designed for people who don’t wish to invest an hour or more doing a workout in the gym day-to-day. Credit: Tony Horton, P90X3The workout program has 30 minutes of intensive exercise, which is designed to tone and strengthen your muscles, for each day, over a 90-day schedule. It is intended for those who are 18 years and older and will help women and men tone and drop extra pounds by simply following the ..read more

Pin topics Are your Monday Pins different than your Friday Pins? If you’re curious about what people Pin on different days of the week, here’s a look at what pinners are up to as the week kicks off on Monday and then eases into Sunday. The most popular categories on each day of the week: Monday: the week starts with good intentions in fitness Tuesday: next up, gadgets are all the rage in technology Wednesday: need a little something to get through the week — inspirational quotes Thursday: threads lead Thursday with fashion Friday: GIFs bring some comic relief to the end of the week with humor ..read more

Starting your fitness journey Finding a way to keep fit that is fun and you enjoy, can be the difference to you sticking to your new fitness regime and losing the desire to keep in shape pretty quickly. It’s all about balance and finding something that works for you. If the thought of hitting the gym at any time of the day for a workout fills you with dread, then maybe you need to look at other ways to work out, that help you adopt healthy habits you can stick to in the long term. Credit: PexelsDo something you love It sounds easy when you put it like this doesn’t it! Can you re ..read more

Warm-up and cool down Everybody knows that they should probably cool down after exercise but people often neglect it because they don’t realize just how important it is. Most people do a proper warm-up because they know that their muscles will seize up and they risk injury if they don’t. But after a long workout when you’ve really been pushing yourself, it’s all too easy to convince yourself that you can just skip the cool down because it isn’t that important. But if you have that attitude, you are opening your body up to all sorts of problems. These are some of the main reasons why a cool dow ..read more

All ’bout the Pinterest Firstly, 250 million people use Pinterest every month. A stat Pinterest is proud of because it’s actually the fourth-most-popular social media platform in America. Pinterest outranks Snapchat, LinkedIn, Twitter and WhatsApp. It’s also global. More than half of the people on Pinterest—and 80% of new signups—come from outside the United States. Unlike other social platforms, Pinterest doesn’t have scandals or political wranglings or people feeling like they need a detox from it. Rather, users are twice as likely to say their time on the platform is well-spen ..read more

We may not know exactly how we make some of the decisions in life that we do. But of course, no matter how we make them, make them we must, and so we carry on creating a life from the multitude of decisions and choices we make on a daily basis. That being said, sometimes you do desire a little more clarity in your life, especially if habitual choices have led you down paths you’re not so keen on in hindsight. For example, love or what we consider to be love can lead us to build an entirely new life from the one we live currently and should be given care and attention. You may feel that gaining ..read more

“To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it is still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.” -Bill Watterson What is life’s meaning? What is meaningful depends on each person. There is no one formula for living a meaningful and rich life. Finding meaning is your own personal journey to discovering what really matters in life and then pursuing those things. To live a meaningful and fulfilling life, find out what matters most to you in this world and then choose to make an impact with it. Find your significance. Be intentional Sometimes the answer to c ..read more