Two Awesome Articles

June 25th, 2011 | Posted by Alison Spath in Good Reads - (Comments Off on Two Awesome Articles)

Psychology Today is one of my current favorite magazines, but it’s published bi-monthly so it feels like an eternity between issues.  I was at their website a couple days ago for a PT fix and got sucked in to two great reads – both well worth sharing.

The Secret to Exercising More and Feeling Great

I highly recommend reading/skimming the full article for yourself, but the secret is to basically “become” something.  Become a runner.  Become a yogi.  When you try to “become” something, you practice all the time, you get good at it, it becomes a habit, it’s then tied to your ego and your self-image.  Voila!  You’re exercising more and you actually like it.  Genius.

I ran out to get a couple of last-minute Thanksgiving groceries last night because it meant:

1.) I was able beat the day-before-Thanksgiving grocery store madness today

2.) I could leave the children at home, which is always reason to celebrate – pre-holiday shopping or not

When I go to the grocery store without children whose DNA resembles mine, I treat myself by:

1.) Bringing my iPod so I can be one of those people who drones out society with the likes of Katy Perry and Enrique Iglesias