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Blog: Choose to Gain

“What you choose is what you lose.” That was the advice I received by a weight-loss counselor. I’m someone who struggles daily with ‘weighty’ issues.

While this philosophy may apply to shedding pounds, I suggest that the flip-side is a key for spiritual health and happiness: “What you choose is what you gain.”

Choice is a complex matter deeply rooted in individual behavior patterns and influenced by genetic pre-dispositions. We all seem to struggle with some type of addictive challenge, ranging from serious problems with alcohol consumption, or gambling excesses, to a shoe fetish.

Personally, along with several other weaknesses, I find it hard to resist handbags. I already have a wonderful collection of perfectly useless choices and yet I’m off to another church yard sale! To buy or not to buy, that is the question, and therein lays my power of choice.

On a spiritual level, we have daily opportunities to exercise choice. For example, will we believe in a supreme being or reject the concept altogether? If we look to the positive consequences of making such a profound choice, we’ll realize we have chosen to gain.

- Sharon Sinclair

© 2011 Sharon Sinclair www.poetryspeaker.com
Reprinted with permission.

Joke: Funny Cooking Jokes

Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans. Bean is a vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar CANE or sugar BEETS. Both are plants, which places them in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable.

To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is dairy. So candy bars are a health food. Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices & strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.

Another important thing is to put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done.

Before I forget, a nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Now, isn't that handy?

A special reminder: "Stressed" spelled backward is "desserts"!

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