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Jillian Michaels the Fitness Guru Can Help Us At Home

You can reinvent yourself in 2010! And you don't need to go to the Biggest Loser reality show to do it. You are perfectly capable of doing this at home. Just let Jillian MIchaels the Fitness Guru be your trainer, motivator and exercise instructor.

As a person who has tried low calorie diets, high fat diets, the Atkins Diet, Weight Watchers, the Southbeach diet, Calories Don't Count, low carb diets, high protein diets, the Mediterranean diet, detox diets, boosting my metabolism and Fit for Life, I guess you can say I am interested in weight loss.

Along with millions of others I have been interested in the show The Biggest Loser and Jillian Michaels. She has become not only a star of this TV program but our country's foremost Fitness Guru and a real asset in helping us reach our actual goals.

With Jillian's overwhelming popularity I wondered if she was good, or too good to be true.

What did I find out? I found out that her program is based on science, and she teaches a very good program with a clean diet. Also, because of her early unhealthy and overweight condition, she is highly motivated to help others reach their goals just as she has. and because of her youth and condition she is able to exercise and kick butt-as they say. Exercise is a very important part of reaching your goals-as you can see fromthe Biggest Loser show.

Another thing I have found is that with her books, DVDs, cards, etc she is able to help us at home to reach our goals too.

So, no matter if you love or hate her, and I noticed that people either feel one way or the other about her, if you have some fitness goals you are welcome to use her expertise and motivation to help you reach your goals. And we can do it in the comfort of our own homes without leaving our families or even paying for a gym membership. (Unless you choose to use the gym-which is OK too.)

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Giving Thanks and Being Grateful Transforms our Lives

There's been a lot of information written on Giving Thanks and Gratitude in the last couple of years. Most people celebrate Thanksgiving yearly as is the custom, and of course giving thanks is always a good thing. But, when we give thanks each and every day, we can transform our lives

Let us give thanks daily throughout the entire year. If people wait until only one day each year, they might be so down and depressed that they might not be able to remember what they are thankful for. I am not taking anything away from Thanksgiving, because as was already mentioned, any day a person spends giving thanks is a good day, but, let's work on giving thanks each and every single day.

Why Give Thanks or be Grateful Each Day?

UC Davis psychology professor Robert Emmons has researched "thanksgiving."

This study has shown that people who count their blessings -- not just on the fourth Thursday of November each year, but in daily gratitude journals- exercise more regularly, complain of fewer illness symptoms and feel better about their lives overall. In other words they express more wellness, happiness and a complete sense of well being.


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Good Health to You,

You know, it's just a thought, but do we really say 'Thank You' enough today? Growing up, we were taught manners such as saying 'Please, Thank You, Yes/No Ma'am, Sir'. But have we gotten too busy for that?

The reason this is on my mind is because I want to say a great big THANK YOU to a lady named Donna Pratt with Continental Airlines. Recently my husband, Ronnie, and I were traveling back from our winter vacation when we had an unexpected delay which caused us to miss our connecting flight in Ft. Lauderdale. (OK, OK...it wasn't TOTALLY unexpected as I have never flown out of Mexico on time and without a few gate changes)

After landing in Florida, we rushed through customs--no kidding, we actually walked right through with no hitches!! And made it to our next flight 15 minutes before scheduled take-off. They had already closed the flight, however, and would not allow us to board as they would have to check our luggage. Actually had our flight not been delayed in Mexico, and had our connecting flight not changed from 4:32 to 4:14 we would have STILL made it...oh well!

So after a mad dash to collect baggage, go through customs check, re-enter, go up 3 levels in FTL airport and attemp to re-check, we were exhausted, totally out of breath, and I was shaking like a leaf as we darted to the counter (thinking we made our flight in time) to be told that they had closed the flight and wouldn't allow us to check in. At that time the lady behind the counter said "I'm sorry, there is NOTHING I can do to help you, you will just have to go to the Continental Counter and see if THEY have anything available. (we were flying Northwest)

Enter: Donna Pratt. The first thing she said with a big smile was, "Hello, how are you?" "Been better", I replied on the verge of tears. At that point Ms. Pratt just stopped what she was working on and looked at us and said, "come here and tell me about it." Now, mind you, this was NOT her problem, I wasn't even flying on her airlines. I told her my story as I tried to calm myself down and she asked for all my info, including my frequent flyer numbers. She took everything, called my ticketing company since we were using air-miles, had the points from our flight re-deposited, and searched for any availablity on other airlines, then had everything re-issued in a matter of minutes. She booked us on Delta (still not her responsiblity) and directed us to the proper are to catch the next flight out. We made it back to Memphis (with a detour in Atlanta) only 4 hours later than we had originally planned and back home to good ol' Batesville, Ar the following day.

Now to you, this may not seem like much, but Ms. Pratt had NO responsibility toward me at all. She took the initiative to take care of this situation. So I ask you (as I did my own agents), how could having the same attitude toward our clients, customers, friends or even strangers benefit me and my business, improve my life and even better yet those of others?

Thank you Donna!