Jade Wanderer | All About Life

Here’s food for thought on lasting principles for mankind:

For 76 years, Herbert Taylor’s four important questions of the things we think, say or do continue to withstand the test of time since 1932. Most probably because it promotes the principle of “doing to others what you want others to do to you” that strongly appeals to society’s majority that enabled its adoption to Rotary Club International:

The Four-Way Test

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Healthwise, you have to keep two important things in mind when you’re working a desk job where you’ll be spending 8 hours or so with only your brain, eyes, fingers and arms doing most of the moving the whole time: food and exercise.

I’m not talking about stuffing yourself with chips and chocolates while working at your computer or when you’re feeling stressed out while at work. It’s more on being conscious about the type of food you eat precisely because of the lack of physical activity a sedentary desk job entails. If you’re not careful, you’ll find to your horror that you’ve put on 10 pounds in just a two weeks because you’re not active enough to burn off all those calories you ate and that they’ve started settling in and accumulating in your tummy area.

If you think you’re too busy to deal with it or to sign up for a regular gym session then the best way (based on my personal experience) to start getting the exercise you need is to take every the opportunity that gives you the chance to walk. Not walking in a leisurely manner mind you but a brisk walk is a good start to help burn some of those calories. Going to the sports center on weekends is also a good habit to develop to sweat off those extra pounds you might have managed to put on during the week days.

Ultimately, you could either adopt a regular exercise regimen into your lifestyle to stay fit or stay the course of a sedentary life at work and at home. Looking forward, can you imagine how much you’ll weight in 2-5 years time if you don’t do something about it?

It ain’t easy but I’d rather start sweating it off now and enjoy life more with my family than being a couch potato.

We attended the graduation of our youngest sibling, Armando, this morning. St. Mary’s Academy held it at their gym to accommodate all the graduates, their parents and guests and prior to the graduation rites ceremony, Bishop Antonio Ledesma officiated the mass held as thanksgiving for the event.It was a really special occasion as I never thought I’d see the day when our youngest in family would be going to college. I could still remember playing with him when he was in diapers so this event made me realize that so much time has already passed by since then. Time waits for no man that we all have to keep moving forward and maybe take a glance back every once in a while to reflect and learn from our experiences.

Manix, I’d like to share this quote by Calvin Coolidge for whatever challenges and obstacles that college may bring you:

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, ‘press on’ has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race.”

So press on my brother….press on.