SELF IMPROVEMENT TIPS THAT WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE BETTER

1. Create a meal plan. Planning out your meals ahead of time will help you spend less money and stick to your health goals. A great meal plan is the $5 Meal Plan. People love this one!
2. Stop eating fried food. Fried food makes you feel awful for ~24 hours (not to mention it lacks nutrients). You’ll feel better if you cut out fried food.
3. Don’t go more than 3 days without exercising. Exercising gives you energy, helps relieve stress, and helps you get fit. It’s too hard to squeeze it in every day sometimes, but don’t go more than 3 days without it.
4. Eat minimal dairy. If you have a sensitive stomach, try cutting out dairy. For some people this can eliminate digestive problems.
5. Cut out one of the following: pop, coffee, alcohol, or sugar. If you could cut all these, then even better (but I would think you are a superhero)!
6. Get enough good sleep. This may be 5.5 hours or it may be 8 hours – whatever it is for you, make sure you get it. The quality matters just as much as the time spent sleeping. Sleep allows you to regenerate and gives you greater concentration.
7. Focus on building strength more than on being skinny. This will create positive goals that are attainable and healthy for you.
8. Make sure you get enough Vitamin C and D. Both of these can impact your health in a positive way if you get enough (and can have the opposite effect if they’re lacking). Check with your doctor which vitamins she recommends.
9. Drink enough water every day. A good rule of thumb is to divide your body weight by 2 and that’s how many ounces you should drink.
10. Keep track of your annual, routine doctor appointments and don’t miss any. Put a recurring reminder on your calendar for things like dental checkups, skin checks, and physicals so you don’t miss any. Take your preventative care seriously.
11. Take fitness classes or hire a personal trainer. If you struggle to get fit, classes or a trainer are great ways to go. Just make sure you can afford it!
12. Subscribe to a health blog. Learn about healthy living as a lifestyle practice little by little every day. Here’s a list of 10 of the best health and wellness blogs.

https://nataliebacon.com/self-improvement-tips/

How to Live a Positive Lifestyle

What Is a Positive Lifestyle?

• A positive lifestyle means a positive attitude and taking positive action.
• It means focusing on solutions, not on problems.
• It means constantly improving yourself and your life.
• It means learning from failure and then moving on and trying again.
• It means living in the present, making the most of it, and not dwelling on the past or worrying about the future.
• It means focusing on and noticing the good traits of people, not just their negative ones. This requires that you stop criticizing and judging people and being more kind and helpful.

You can live a positive lifestyle, even if you have problems and difficulties and your life conditions are negative. All you need is to strive to change your attitude toward life, and change a few of your habits. With a little effort and perseverance, you can improve your life and bring more positivity into it.

1. When facing a problem, focus on solutions. Refuse to allow your mind to think of difficulties and on negative results that might face. Insist of finding a solution.

2. Acknowledge problems and difficulties, but face them with courage and a positive attitude.

3. Smile more often when in the company of people. They will like you more and you will feel happier, but your smile needs to be sincere, not mechanical. Try to be friendly and kind. This would help you smile naturally and sincerely.

4. Look around you, and you will always find something that can bring a smile to your face. For a while forget everything that is bothering and smile.

5. You waste a lot of time energy when you attach yourself to the past, to habits that are not useful, and wishing things and people were different. What has happened cannot be undone, so why waste your time and energy over it? It is better and wiser to go on.

https://www.successconsciousness.com/blog/positive-attitude/how-to-live-a-positive-lifestyle/

5 Personal Finance Basics Every Smart Woman Should Know

1. Spend less than you earn

If you remember only one thing from this article, let it be this point: spend less than you earn. The bigger the gap between what you earn and what you spend, the better. This is the holy grail of accumulating wealth.

2. Know how your money flows

When I got my first job out of college, the best thing my mom made me do was to sit down and create a budget. I didn’t necessarily stick to every detail that I wrote out, but it was eye-opening to see that if I planned to spend $X on rent, I wouldn’t have enough for groceries.

3. Save for rainy days

Once you’ve gotten the hang of spending less than you earn, it’s time to put that extra money somewhere. Rather than leaving it in your checking account, where you’ll be tempted to spend it, transfer it to a high-interest savings account and start building your emergency fund.

4. Pay off high-interest debt

There’s really no way around this one: high-interest debt is terrible and expensive. If you have credit card debt, you could be paying interest rates over 20%, which can make it really difficult to pay off that debt.

5. Take advantage of employer retirement plans as soon as you can

If you work for a company that offers to match part of your contributions to a retirement plan, take advantage of that as soon as you can. Not only is it great to start saving for retirement early, but the employer match is basically free money.

https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/the-10-personal-finance-basics-every-smart-woman-should-know/

Best Diets for Healthy Eating

Mediterranean Diet ranked #1 in Best Diets Overall. 

It's generally accepted that the folks in countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea live longer and suffer less than most Americans from cancer and cardiovascular ailments. The not-so-surprising secret is an active lifestyle, weight control, and a diet low in red meat, sugar and saturated fat and high in produce, nuts and other healthful foods. The Mediterranean Diet may offer a host of health benefits, including weight loss, heart and brain health, cancer prevention, and diabetes prevention and control. By following the Mediterranean Diet, you could also keep that weight off while avoiding chronic disease.

The Mediterranean diet pyramid should help get you started. The pyramid emphasizes eating fruits, veggies, whole grains, beans, nuts, legumes, olive oil, and flavorful herbs and spices; fish and seafood at least a couple of times a week; and poultry, eggs, cheese and yogurt in moderation, while saving sweets and red meat for special occasions. Top it off with a splash of red wine (if you want), remember to stay physically active and you're set.

https://health.usnews.com/best-diet/mediterranean-diet

2019 GRAND JUNCTION RENAISSANCE FAIRE

Fully Heavy Armor Jousting, Sword Fighting, Celtica - Pipes Rock!, Comedy, Music, Artisans and Craft Vendors, Fire Dancing, Historical Re-enactment, Beer Garden, Mead, Faires and Mermaids

April 27, 2019 - April 28, 2019

Watson Island Park

639 Struthers Ave 
Grand Junction, CO 81501

Admission: $14 for adults, $8 for children, Hours: 10 am - 8 pm

https://www.visitgrandjunction.com/events/2019-grand-junction-renaissance-faire

ABSOLUTE DANCE AND PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS THE NUTCRACKER

Absolute Dance brings the beloved classic, The Nutcracker, to Grand Junction with six performances of thrilling choreography, dazzling costumes, a cast of 75 local performers, and featured professional guest artists, Nicholas Patterson and Sayaka Ishibashi from Orlando Ballet and the incredible magician, Danny Baker. This is a holiday tradition you won't want your family to miss, it is a perfect holiday treat! With direction and choreography by Dina Duckworth, Tanner Blee and Theresa Kahl, join us as we tell the story of a young girl named Clara and how a mysterious gift from her Uncle Drosselmeyer brings about enchanted dreams and magical scenes.

December 21, 2018 - December 23, 2018

The Robinson Theatre

1100 North Ave 
Grand Junction, CO December 21, 2018 - December 23, 2018

https://www.visitgrandjunction.com/events/absolute-dance-and-performing-arts-presents-nutcracker

Studt's Pumpkin Patch

October 1 – 31, 2018

The Original Studt’s Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze is the Biggest and Best in the Grand Valley guaranteed! Studt’s is excited to once again offer fun for the whole family!

https://studtspumpkinpatchandcornmaze.com/