Review the Year and Celebrate!

Wellness QUEST for YOUR BEST! Find a quiet moment to reflect on family, friends and other special people who have helped, loved, and inspired you throughout the past year. Celebrate all of them with an expression of gratitude before the year ends.

Health BENEFITS: Gratitude has a unique relationship with well-being. Wikipedia reports research suggesting how grateful people are happier, more satisfied with their lives and social relationships, and more in control of personal growth. They are less depressed, less stressed, and sleep better.

QUOTE: He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ~Epictetus

HUMOR: An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan

POST SCRIPT: In addition to being thankful for other people’s positive effect on your life, give yourself credit. Your positive efforts deserve to be celebrated as well.

Note: The Health Cartoon shown above is taken from the perpetual Health Care-toons Calendar by Jeff Haebig and cartoonist Ed Fischer.

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QUEST CRYPTOGRAM answer from December 28th

"Triangle of Fitness... strength, flexibility, aerobics"

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Make the Ultimate New Year's Resolution

Wellness QUEST for YOUR BEST! Replace your mega list of resolutions with ‘one’ practical way you want to improve yourself. Spend ‘one’ week thinking about ‘one’ health goal, focused on ‘one’ person (you) that will be completed next year. Write your resolution down and post it on a wall or mirror, making it the first thing you see in the morning.

Health BENEFITS: Keeping a New Year’s resolution can pay many health dividends if you stick to it. Read the article, watch the video... then set your goal and ‘do it!’

QUOTE: We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.
Janet Erskine Stuart

HUMOR: A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown

Quest cryptogram: tbnapwb da xa yd omx rzbs xa yd
Hint: A=O... The solution is given on the next blog post.

Note: The Health Cartoon shown above is taken from the perpetual Health Care-toons Calendar by Jeff Haebig and cartoonist Ed Fischer.

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