THOSE WHO “CAN’T”……. STILL SUCCEED

How true!

All About Healthy Choices

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1. “I just CAN’T find time to exercise.”

2. “I just CAN’T eat all those vegetables the doctors say I should.”

3. “I just CAN’T get away from work.”

4. “I just CAN’T drink all that water I’m supposed to.”

5. “I just CAN’T give up smoking.”

6. “I just CAN’T give up my daily wine/beer.”

7. “I just CAN’T sleep until I take my prescription medication.”

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HOW CAN THOSE WHO JUST “CAN’T“……SUCCEED?

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• Those who just “CAN’T“ find time to exercise, “SUCCEED“ in experiencing faster degeneration and loss of function.

• Those who just “CAN’T“ eat all those vegetable doctors say you should, “SUCCEED“ in experiencing higher rates of disease and life altering complications.

• Those who just “CAN’T“ get away from work, “SUCCEED“ in reducing quality family time and personal leisure time.

• Those who just “CAN’T“ drink all the…

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The Magic and Majesty of Big Ben…

We have 4 years to wait before we can hear those beautiful chimes again.

anita dawes and jaye marie

This post is being reposted for two reasons. Firstly, because my long time friend, the bell in Big Ben, is being turned off for some lengthy repairs, and I feel as though someone has died… and secondly, because my brain is in meltdown mode at the moment. More about this next week!

                                                   magical Big Ben…

Big Ben has always been a very special symbol in my life. I grew up in London and the deep resonant tones of the bell and the imposing majesty of the building is one of the most enduring memories of my time there.
London has many such landmarks and I love them all, but that tall clock tower on the river Thames embankment is far and away my favourite. By rights, my favourite should be the river itself, feeling as I do about water, but no. Very close though.
‘Big Ben’ is really just…

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Yecheilyah’s Book Review Awards 2017

Great idea from Yecheilyah!

Pearls Before Swine

Guys!!

I have an idea!

I want to do something special for the authors who are featured on this blog.

Yecheilyah’s Book Review Awards – a virtual event in which 5-star rated authors on The PBS Blog are honored with promotion, culminating in a Book Review Award gifted to the author whose book stood out to me the most.

To up the stakes, I would like to give this author an actual award. Not a virtual certificate, not a blog award, and not a badge but something tangible he or she can sit on his or her desk and be proud of! (Of course, I’m not a rich woman so I’ll be looking for something reasonable, but nice.)

This means I will have to decide on the best place (I do have one in mind) and get a logo made!!

Of course, since I read the books and reviewed…

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A ghost of myself

I KNOW there is life after death. If you can make time to visit a clairvoyant, you will find out what I discovered a long time ago. There’s a medium coming to our village tonight. Maybe I’ll get another message!

Sue Vincent's Daily Echo

I pull to the side of the road. The screech of sirens and the flashing blue lights of an ambulance head towards my village. For a moment I am simply grateful that my younger son sold his motorbike, even though I know he misses it dreadfully. There were too many ditches when he was younger…

Then I wonder who needs the ambulance. Will it get there in time? Do I know them? Will they be okay?  What if I was me who had died and the ambulance was going for my body while my ghost, all unaware, still went to work…?

Now there’s a thought that comes right out of nowhere and is guaranteed to stop you in your tracks on the way to work…

How would I know? Living with the dog wouldn’t have helped, as I am convinced they can see far more than we can. Ani might…

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A very slow death

I can sympathise with Ian’s plight quite well, having suffered from thyroid cancer for 12 years. With no thyroid and having to stop thyroxine for 2 weeks in 2006 for radioactive iodine treatment, I came to a slow halt and then stopped! Look after your thyroids folks – thyroid disease sucks…

ianprobertbooks

In my early forties I was struck down by a disease I knew nothing about. For ten years I suffered from untreated Hypothyroidism. It ruined my career as a writer and came close to killing me. This is my story…

With the power of hindsight it’s hard to believe that nobody noticed. I certainly didn’t: although the evidence was staring at me in the face every time I looked in a mirror. My wife didn’t seem to notice: although really she did but it’s just that I wasn’t prepared or able to listen to any of the hints that she tried to drop in an admittedly uncharacteristically subtle manner. My friends didn’t notice: but they were probably amused that a weight fascist such as I had piled on so many pounds. The truth of the matter was that I was falling to pieces. My body had gone into shutdown. My…

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Vacation and Author Interviews

Have a lovely holiday Yecheilyah!

Pearls Before Swine

The summer is pretty much over but I have not exactly taken a vacation or a break. That’s about to change.

In about two weeks I will be going on a vacation of sorts and taking some extensive time off. I’ll be away from social media, and the blog. I am going completely offline from August 27th through September.

This means that I will not be here to share your posts and that all Introduce Yourself Interviews will be scheduled to go live ahead of time. Authors, this means it will be YOUR responsibility to promote your posts if your interview is scheduled when I am gone.

About scheduling…

For those of you who are interested in being interviewed on this blog between now through September, you will need to get your questions in to me before Wednesday, August 23, 2017 so that they can be scheduled to go out.

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Free book promotion, Words We Carry by D.G. Kaye

Have you got your copy yet?

Sue Vincent's Daily Echo

Get this book FREE Now Here!

Blurb:

“I have been a great critic of myself for most of my life, and I was darned good at it, deflating my own ego without the help of anyone else.”

What do our shopping habits, high-heeled shoes, and big hair have to do with how we perceive ourselves? Do the slights we endured when we were young affect how we choose our relationships now?

D.G. takes us on a journey, unlocking the hurts of the past by identifying situations that hindered her own self-esteem. Her anecdotes and confessions demonstrate how the hurtful events in our lives linger and set the tone for how we value our own self-worth.

Words We Carry is a raw, personal accounting of how the author overcame the demons of low self-esteem with the determination to learn to love herself.

Editorial Review

“D.G. Kaye offers hope to those of…

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The PBS Blog Makes the List

Well done PBS!  Yecheilyah will give an honest review of your book.

Pearls Before Swine

What a pleasant surprise. Just found out this blog is listed on Reedsy’s Best Book Review Blogs of 2017. Neat. ☺

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Important:

If you would like me to consider reviewing your book, please register your book through my Book Review Registry HERE. I do not accept unsolicited submissions.

(I always use a disclaimer at the front end of any review to books in which I have not bought / given as gifts. Bought books that show as reviewed on this blog, of course, does not have the disclaimer and does not count toward the ‘unsolicited submission’. I know, this is obvious information but you never know.)

Failure to register will automatically disqualify you from consideration. You must register your book if you want me to consider reviewing it. Emailing me your book does not count.

“It’s not just because she reviewed my novelette, All Good Stories, and gave it…

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Tired of Feeling Tired? Here’s Why You Feel So Exhausted All The Time!

So many people have the TATT syndrome (Tired All The Time). Foods high in sugars have a lot to do with this. Apart from causing spikes in blood sugar and therefore more insulin to be released to combat this (the resulting trough causes tiredness), they also cause the brain to form more sugar receptors, and therefore the sugar craving/addiction is quickly formed. Sugar should be banned!

When Women Inspire

Tired of feeling tired? Being low in energy is the worst, everything feels like a huge chore, and it has you feeling like you want to climb into bed and just be left alone. It’s easy to put tiredness down to lack of sleep due to being so busy, but actually, there are lots of different things that could come into play. Here are just a few reasons you feel constantly drained.

Are you constantly tired? You may feel drained for a number of reasons, including not enough exercise. Pixabay image, CC0 License.

You Don’t Exercise Enough

Exercise is tiring, and after a long day at work, chances are the last thing you feel like doing is hitting the gym. However, while a workout will tire you out, it will also boost your fitness, endurance and strength- and over time will actually make you feel more energized.

You will have…

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#Author/BloggerSpotlight D.G. Kaye aka Debby Gies

Have you read these blogs by D.G Kaye?

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While I was on break preparing my first novel for republication, I missed several wonderful posts by my lovely friend Debby Gies.  Debby is one of the most supportive authors it is my privilege to know. She writes compelling memoirs and has five outstanding books to her name. Find them HERE.

Debby’s latest memoir, P.S. I Forgive You, was published in October 2016 and has received nothing less than 5-star reviews.

Aside from sharing the work of fellow authors, Debby also writes thought-provoking articles and regularly shares helpful tips.  I’d like to share a few of these now. Perhaps you missed them as well. Since I’m still in catch-up mode,  I’m including a few of her later posts.

I hope you enjoy these as much as I have ❤

#Kindness Rocks Project – #WATWB – How it Began – How to Participate

The Story of My Life…

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