Jet Li's Health Tips

Health tips from Reader’s Digest (latest edition with Jet Li on the cover as Asian of the Year 2009):

• Take 10,000 steps a day.

• Eat breakfast without fail.

• Never skip meals.

• Savour each bite/don’t eat while doing something else.

• Stop eating before you are full.

• Eat slowly/put your fork down between bites.

• Enjoy your favorite foods in moderation.

• Avoid shopping on an empty stomach.

• Target easy wins — e.g., have a diet soft drink instead of a regular one.

• Keep to a shopping list.

• Have five small healthy meals a day instead of three large ones.

• Keep a sense of humor.

• Always leave something on your plate.

• Eat with cutlery, not your fingers.

• Get most of your calories before noon.

Lay-Offs and More Lay-Offs Each Day

Every morning, I would check my office email, personal email and read the on-line newspapers: inquirer.net and philstar.

And lately, there are a lot of grim news on lay-offs...and more lay-offs...

Intel.
Philips.

Of course, as an intelligent investor would say, buy low...
So this is also the time when mergers acquisitions are happening:

Pfizer buying Wyeth.

These Financial headlines give me goosebumps.

I know how it feels to be faced with so much uncertainties.
I've been in such a situation before.
The difference? The economy was not that gloomy yet. I knew I had options.
But what is happening now.

Lay-offs left and right.

Offices and plants shutting down.

I really feel bad.

Some may think that I am in a "comfortable industry" now.
An industry that proves to be resilient despite the economic times.

But I believe that everything is connected with everything.
It will all come around in full circle.

A better way to put it is, I am lucky to be in an industry that may get hit towards the tail-end of the slump if it doesn't pick-up soon.

It's so depressing.

The last time things went into such gloom was in 1997. During the Asian Crisis.
But I was still in college then.
Money came in easy.

Now that I am managing my finances and I earn my money, I can feel the slump.

I hope the great turn-around will happen soon.

Everyone deserves a good life.

On looking young and feeling young

I was at the salon yesterday to rejuvinate my long-time neglected hair.

Aside from having a "new" look that makes you feel good, what's nice about going to salons are the selection of magazines that they have-from the latest issues to back issues; from parenting magazines to adult reading...name it they have it.

I chanced upon a Smart Parenting Magazine with Carmina Villaroel and her daughter Cassy on the cover. Browsed through it and read the article on Mina (naks close). Well, the content is just what you expect from such an interview but what strucked me was when she said that she tries not to look like a mom and there is a conscious effort on her part to make sure she looks good.

Wow! She just verbalized what I've been thinking since I became a mom to Gayle! Dapat kahit Mommy na, hindi pa rin mukhang Mommy! Dapat maalaga pa rin sa katawan!

Healthy diet. Healthy lifestyle.

Of course, easier said than done with the kind of environment that we all live in now.

Everything is fast. Everything is on the move. Everything can just cause you stress. (Do I hear anyone saying Motherhood = Stress?!)

The key word here is "CONSCIOUS EFFORT". It's important that one puts in effort in trying to live a healthy lifestyle.

So with that "conscious thought" in my mind, I woke up this morning and pushed myself to go the the gym. Congratulations to me because this is I believe the first consecutive weekends that I've been to the gym since I don't remember when. I am so lazy to go to the gym!

So hopefully, I'd stick to my "conscious effort" mantra because it's really important for one to feel good about oneself...so remind me not to sweat the small stuff and to chill!

Life is too short to be spent thinking about a good management principle to apply in managing the maids!