I started my personal training business by training women in their homes. I loved this and still try to make housecalls here and there. one added benefit was teaching these women that they didn’t have an excuse not to workout because they didn’t have a full gym. Here are my top 3 reasons why I love body weight training. 1. Bone density. As women we have a big bone density issue. It’s a fact of nature. Body weight training helps to keep the bone density you have and even build it slightly. By putting the pressure and weight on your bones with squats, running, push ups and more, you are forcing the bones to work to become stronger. Remember our bodies are always striving to be stronger when we break parts down. 2. Body weight training is free. You don’t need an expensive

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While as it states in the post it is to take one wall of your home and start there to organize it, I am going to take it much deeper and kinda off the home mentality subject and really dig in for a moment about the walls in yourself. I have decided to take this inwardly and organize the walls, if you will I have disorganized personally within myself. I am going to start with my scheduling wall. I schedule my work time and my family time….trying for that balance of work and home but completely forgot about me. In the winter I will admit I work more hours behind this screen. Even in my offline socialization I was limiting myself to things that we involve ourselves in such as our Pow Wow committee, as well as traveling with the Pow Wow drum Night Eagle. So yes, I socialize offline

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I’ve lived all my life in the Pacific Northwest. Tons of my friends grew up skiing as we live less than an hour away from a world class resort. However, my first time ever up on the mountain was at the age of 28. This is even funnier because my husband grew up skiing at this same world class resort. I am afraid of heights and yet I took to snowboarding fast. I loved it. Now I am skiing instead, don’t ask about the injury that happened, everyone is tired of hearing about it. lol Last year was a long, hard winter here in the Seattle area. But my family and I didn’t even notice. We were too busy relishing the fact that the snow was kickin’ in the mountains and just waiting for M-Fri to get done so we could head back up. The winter went so fast. Previously, I would have

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Make Ahead Meals Have you heard of the term “Make Ahead Meals”? (Often referred to as Power Cooking) Make Ahead Meals is a real solution for busy moms (and dads). You can make meals faster and it saves time! Cooking meals “ten at a time” saves both time and money. You’ll have way fewer trips to the grocery store. Even a “quick trip” is very time consuming, plus you’ll have fewer impulse purchases, which saves you money and did I mention how much money you’ll be saving on gas? Many of the time-consuming tasks can be combined on one day, making your dinner much easier and quicker for the next two weeks. Saving money by making dinner easier so you eat out (or pick up take-out) less often is a really BIG savings. Plus, as I mentioned in previous articles, dinner at home, around your

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Eccentric WAHM bloggers are thrilled and honored to share with you the fabulous Shelly Hill of Shak’in & Bak’in in the Kitchen with Shelly! If you haven’t had the distrinct pleasure of meeting Shelly you are certainly missing out! I am partial to Passionate About Crafting Blog as I share her love for all things crafty, I even guest blog there on occasion and just love that blog! I love reading the reviews on Two Classy Chics, it certainly helps in making choices when I am looking for specific items to purchase and for those in direct sales you’ll love reading too. I can not fail to mention her Work at Home Business Options is one of the best sites of it’s kind! Business Tips, direct sales info, articles, exclusive articles, affordable shopping directory, direct sales directory

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Were you one of the millions that added better fitness to your 2010 resolutions? Go to the gym in January and you can see how many people added it to their resolutions.  The gyms are packed.  But we are starting to hit the time when many will quit and it will be back to the regulars again.  Make your fitness resolution stick.  Become a fitness regular and not a January drop in.  A few tips to make that happen: 1.  Make your fitness fun.  Many go to the gym and trudge through a workout without ever cracking a smile.  Who wants to keep that up?  If you go to the gym, then find a workout buddy to laugh with.  Play a sport and get your fitness that way some days a week.  Or think about buying the Wii fit plus and challenge yourself at home.  Making it fun will help you stick

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I am not your average work at home mom web designer, I am not standing on designer city and yelling “I am the greatest in the world” but I am good at what I do! So when I tell you this, it’s valuable information “NOT the now information”! I could careless about what’s popular now…I stick to what works, period. In this economy and the fact that work at home mom’s really watch there finances and even more so for those who are just starting out AFFORDABILITY is a must. I truly hate seeing some give up because their site didn’t grab the attention of readers and possible customers and certainly did not express their personality. The stagnant look of the same templates over and over are, well quite the bore and most don’t stick around. You could be anybody and if you don’t have content

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