Tag: Fitness

One of the great things that we do in our house is something I would like to share today.

Fruits and veggies are a big deal in our house and we eat a lot of them. My wife and I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables but of course our kids will choose what to eat based on what we give them as well as what they see from our habits.

Getting Veggies into the Kids

So to make sure our kids eat lots of fruits and vegetables we buy vegetables once a week on Sundays and fruit twice a wee, usually Wednesdays and Sundays. The plan as you can see from this picture is to wash and cut the veggies right away.

What either my wife or I usually do is to soak the fruits and vegetables in a mixture of water and some vinegar for about 20 minutes to wash off all the dirt, wax, and pesticides. after this we dry the fruits and veggies and then we cut up the veggies and package them up in a container and then we have them already for the fridge and kids lunches.

I know that most kids have issues with vegetables but fortunately ours have been no problem and having the easy access to those vegetables makes it very convenient and the kids will grab them anytime.

Fruit Washing and Kale

As for the fruit, I am really bad for not cleaning my apples or pears so cleaning the fruit as soon as we get home makes things really easy for me.

And this is just a picture of Kale. We bought a couple of bunches of Kale yesterday and I was a slack ass about washing it so I wanted to show off that I did wash it in the end.

I washed and broke up the kale and then put it in a big baggie so that I could store it in the freezer for smoothies as the week goes on.

This is just what we do at our house and it seems to works well for us but I am always looking for more tips.

I really really think that the best way to eat better is to make sure that food that is good is easily accessible and food that is bad for you is not readily available. I am the worst perso for making sure that I eat badly so to avoid it I make sure that I put the best food in front of me and if I do want bad food then I make sure I have to leave the house to get it

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One of the things that happens when you have kids is that often you just go from season to season and as much as you sign the kids up for stuff and do things, the mundane of the regular schedule seems to just fill up all of your time if you aren’t careful.

One of the things that we do every year on new years eve is create a dreamboard. In past years we have sometimes done it right and put pictures on there and done a lot of research into what would be great but this year (11 months ago now) we just made one at 8:00 new years eve. You can see it here. It seems to have worked out well so far mostly. But there are always things that sometimes get missed anyway.

Well I was looking back at some twitter posts earlier tonight and I ran across an even better idea that Carla at MizFitOnline posted about at the end of Summer. She and her kids had a Summer list of things they wanted to do and she was lamenting about how Summer is ending and the list was ending too, how about a new list, maybe even a monthly list?

Here we are in the middle of November and we are already apparently prepping for Christmas. I think that Winter really did start a couple of weeks ago and now I am thinking that I had better start to make some plans for these last 6 weeks of the year or they will just slip by in the business of the season.

I think we are going to have to make one of these “Fun Lists” not goals, not drams, just fun stuff to do so that we don’t go crazy. Stuff to let off steam and to have fun.

How about you? Do you have plans? What are you going to be doing these last few weeks of the year?

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Motivation can be as diverse as people themselves.  Causes and effects of motivation are also multi-faceted.  What motivates you may be totally opposite to what motivates others.
When we finally achieve motivation at times it’s short lived because it’s the wrong stimulus to produce lasing results.  Stimuli can come from deep inside the mind and soul or be strictly the possibility of being rewarded.

Intrinsic motivation comes from inside a person rather than from an external source.  He or she is motivated by the sheer pleasure of a task or the sense of satisfaction of working on a task and its eventual completion.  It doesn’t matter if there is no monetary or other physical reward.

What Does It Mean To Be Intrinsically Motivated

If a person is intrinsically motivated he works on a problem or job simply because it’s enjoyable.  He works to seek a solution but enjoys the trip not necessarily the destination.  The work is not done for payment or reward.

Some students are intrinsically motivated and enjoy the research and homework for the love of learning and not for the grade they’ll receive.  Such motivation usually results in excellent grades.

In everyday life, a good example is a person who works a crossword puzzle, a word jumble or a jigsaw puzzle.  They enjoy the challenge of learning and achieving knowing that when the puzzle is complete there will be no reward other than self-satisfaction, which is enough.

There are cases where intrinsically motivated people do seek rewards in order to make a living or finish a class but external rewards are not enough to keep them interested.  It takes a challenge for a person to pursue money or good grades because reward alone is not satisfying. It’s apparent that intrinsic motivation is very desirable, but few fall into this category.  Most students, teachers and others need external rewards to keep them motivated.

How to Become More Intrinsically Motivated

Factors that promote intrinsic motivation are basically challenge, control, curiosity, fantasy, cooperation, competition and recognition.  Challenge allows a person to work toward a meaningful goal.  Control allows one to control what happens to them.  Curiosity stimulates the desire to learn about something.

Fantasy turns learning into a game by using mental images rather than things actually present.  Competition lets a person feel satisfaction by comparing their performance to others.  Cooperation and recognition bring satisfaction and appreciation from others to the motivator.

Extensive research has shown that intrinsic motivation is merely described as what people will do just for the love of doing it.  They’re not working on the task or job to receive any form of external inducement.

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