One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.   Nelson Mandela With today's quote the light bulb above my head went off.  The most important part of preparing for something, anything, is believing it will happen!  DUH!  This has never occurred to me before, you?  I think deep down I maybe knew that but I never really thought about it.  Until today.  Until the wisdom of Nelson Mandela grabbed my attention. I think about my lifelong journey with health and wellness.  Perhaps one of the reasons I have never achieved health and wellness permanently is because I never had the most important part prepared and that is belief!  Belief that I can be at a healthy weight and not struggle so much, belief that there are better things to do with my emotions than eat them *grin and sigh*, and belief that I am worth spending time on to get and stay healthy.  And, for me, health and wellness is...

There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.   Nelson Mandela You may have heard me utter a time or two, "Less is more" (particularly after watching an episode of Hoarders) but in the case of today's quote I'm uttering, "Less is NOT more."  :)  I love it when my little theories get upset in the most delightful ways. Mandela has it right - when we settle for less life than what is out there waiting for us to reach it then we lack passion.  We lack zeal.  We lack fullness .  We lack satisfaction. What makes us settle for less life?  The belief that we don't deserve more life.  The belief that we aren't worth more to live more.  The fear of the unknown of a fuller life.  The fear of failing at living a fuller life.  The fear of passion.  Those are just the reasons that popped into my head, there's probably a hundred more excuses for settling for less when the...