Fill up to Spill out

This week I have done a lot of thinking, reflecting, and doing a good self-check as we are already 4 months into 2024, and I want to make sure I am on track to achieve the goals I set for myself by the end of this year.  The main reason people don't succeed in their goals or new year's resolutions each year is because they simply quit after the first few months instead of doing a self-check in order to make some changes.   For example, if your goal this year was to get strong, fit, and healthy and you signed up for a gym membership that you are no longer using (or at least not consistently 3-5 days a week to see results), maybe you are someone that doesn't like working out at a gym.  Maybe it's not convenient, inspiring, or fun.  Maybe you would do better working out at home and pushing play on fun workouts that tell you exactly what to do, and you can do it at 5am before work, or when it works for you.   Or perhaps you are someone who is working out at home, but you

  Happy April ... just a few days late, as I decided to start April with getting really sick.  I RARELY get sick, or at least not sick enough to miss a day or 2 of work, so when I do, it is always a good reminder for how much I APPRECIATE my body when it feels GOOD.  I am used to having energy and working out daily.   What a GIFT it is to be able to take care of my body!   In the last couple of weeks, I've been reminded, not only in my own sickness, but in other ways, WHY I do the things I do to stay healthy.  I want to AGE WELL!!  Last week, so many of my patients ages 40 on up kept telling me how horrible it was to get older.  When, I told them, "well, it beats the alternative... as in being 6 feet under," they laughed and said it might be better to be dead than alive.  Their aches and pains, fatigue, weight gain, and more made them wish their life was over, instead of just beginning another season.  How sad it that?!?!   As a family nurse practitioner, I am reminded ev