Are you becoming a diamond?

"A diamond is a chunk of coal made good under pressure.” ~ Henry Kissenger

Ahhh, the pressures of a typical day in the life of almost anyone you bump into during the course of your activities are universal. The stress of each sunrise coaxing your heavy eyelids to open and greet the light starts the cycle.  How we choose to greet the sunlight may very well determine the outcome of our successes and failures on a daily basis and throughout our lives.

Choose HOPE, High On Positive Expectations and healthy living strategies.  Apply the pressure to yourself to decide to make your life healthier and happier.  Here are a few ideas that may steer you in a positive direction.

• Create a vision board - what do you truly desire?  Put pictures of those things on it that are at the root of what you would be willing to work for.  Become very in tune with it...put yourself in the picture.  Being invisible is not a great marketing strategy - so market your dreams to yourself.  Place it where you will view it often.
• Exercise!  I know...you have heard it before.  But it is true.  Move your body. Here's an idea: Dance with small children.  They love to bop around to music...you can too and not look silly because you are having fun with them!
• Eat better!  How?  Eat like a caveman...Ha!  Recall the commercial?  It's so easy, even a caveman could do it.  There is a lot of truth to it.  The right meats, vegetables, nuts, seeds and berries will improve your health.  Do the research on your own to find out how organic foods may change your world. Watkins Organic Herbs and Spices
• Make the changes you implement in your life fun!  Do it together as a family or with a friend.  You need each other for a support system. Grow in your spiritual health too.

• If you have a day where you feel like you haven't lived up to your new healthful strategies...be courageous and regroup!  "Sometimes courage doesn't always roar.  Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow". ~ Mary Ann Radmacher 
• Go for it!
   

Broccoli, pine nuts and garlic are wonderful foods to eat. For extra benefit, use organic grown vegetables whenever possible.  Definitely use organic butter...you will love it!  Enjoy this combination!

Broccoli with Caramelized Garlic and Pine Nuts
1/3 cup pine nuts
1/4 cup butter
1 T. Watkins Grapeseed Oil, Original Flavor
6 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
1 lb. broccoli florets
1/2 tsp. Watkins Sea Salt
1/8 tsp. Watkins Red Pepper Flakes, crushed (Too much heat for your taste buds? Substitute Watkins Black Pepper!)
Toast pine nuts in a large skillet over medium heat 6 minutes or until lightly browned.  remove from skillet, and set aside.

Heat butter and oil in same skillet over medium heat until butter melts.  Add garlic, and saute 1 to 2 minutes or until lightly browned.  Add broccoli, salt, and crushed red pepper.  Saute 8 minutes or until broccoli is tender.  Stir in pine nuts before servings.  Yield: 6 servings
*If you are a lover of garlic, substitute Watkins Garlic and Parsley Flavored Grapeseed Oil over the original flavor