【推荐1】Like most people, you probably spend a lot of time sitting and gain weight. For the sake of good health, you may balance out your time in the chair with trips to the gym.     1    . Just try some of these simple everyday activities to keep moving, and watch the pounds melt away.

● Increase daily walking to stay active and healthy

Walking is one of the easiest, most convenient activities you can do.     2    . Use a pedometer(计步器) to keep track of how much you’re walking, and slowly work up to 10,000 steps a day.

● Fight sitting disease by standing at work

Work is a place where many of us sit for hours, and the result is a lost opportunity to burn hundreds of calories every day.     3    . Standing obviously puts more stress on the body than sitting, thus it will burn more calories. If you stand for an entire workday, it can help increase leg strength and endurance.

● Make house cleaning a part of your fitness routine

    4    . It can strengthen your muscles without you even realizing it. Dragging around a heavy vacuum (吸尘器) isn’t an easy task, especially if you are going up and down stairs.

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Preparing food certainly burns more calories. To control what goes in your mouth, you can plan ahead and have a home-cooked meal. This way, you know exactly what went into your meal and it can be prepared faster and less expensively than making that extra stop at a restaurant.

【推荐2】How to Teach kids About Setting Goals

    1     It can become an easy process for a lifetime if kids are taught goal setting at an early stage. They need to be offered a project to make them work on accomplishing something personal.

Set smart goals. A goal needs to be measurable, specific, realistic and timely in order to be effective. Kids prefer generalizing(泛化)when it comes to goal setting. For example, one may want to be the best basketball player in the team.     2     What exactly does a goal like this mean? You need to ask them to be specific. Begin with scoring two baskets in each game (or however many; just something measurable!) so that they can continuously push the barriers to accomplish greater goals.

Write down goals.     3     Recent studies show that when goals are written down, the individual is likely to achieve them.

    4     Kids have the habit of choosing goals that just seem impossible to achieve. You need to teach them the concepts of short and long-term goals and give your child reality checks.

Set up review points. You can ask them to write their main goal on the poster and mention the steps they would take for attaining their goal.     5     It is important to help your children have their own checkpoint systems that actually work for them.

【推荐3】Love the Process

When you first feel that you love the process more than the result, you will sense it makes you better at dealing with failures. In the end, you won’t care about the outcome if you enjoy the process of getting to it. On the contrary, if you do not enjoy the process, you won’t get the joy of success either.

We all love when our hard work pays off.    1     Concentrating too much on the end result without enjoying the process can disappoint and make us quit. You have to know where you are going and have fun going there. If you learn how to love the process, failing at the end will not disappoint you.    2    

But how to do that, in this impatient world, where we see a lot of successful people around and want to compete? Well, that question has the answer in it.

Never Compete.

    3     First of all, we are all different. And we do not measure success equally. For some, success means money; for others, it’s power or freedom or accomplishing a goal. Ride your own ride.

Be Patient.

Slow down. You need to stop expecting immediate results in what you do and learn to be patient.    4     Do it slowly, but constantly. Consistency (持续稳定) is your friend in this route.

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Divide the process into small milestones, and give yourself a reward after completing each of them. Rewarding yourself for small accomplishments can go a long way. If you are in the process of weight loss, do a “Cheat day” and enjoy your beloved cake once in a while. You’ve earned that.