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In January I did a yoga a day Instagram challenge just to spice up my indoor winter workouts routine.  I love these Instagram challenges because it takes the guess work out of the equation and gives you something to focus on for the month. By design, its like you're receiving a free exercise program for 30 days. If you're motivated by competition /completion and doing things as a group on social media, Instagram monthly fitness challenges are a good option With spring being here, even if it's still snowing in New England, am thinking of transitioning the seasons by doing another Instagram challenge in April. Something to the tune of  April showers bringing May's flowers. If you will like to join me on what I do decide to do, follow me on Instagram at  @mpn_wellness https://www.instagram.com/mpn_wellness/

Life is funny. I had this ambitious idea like everyone else to hit the ground running at the beginning of the new year.  Don't have outlandish goals but all the same have a list of top three things you really want to tackle. 1. Blog more ( 4 posts a month, once a week) fail 2.  Be more conscious about your healthy living choices (leave it as a broad idea with/out too much pressure on accountability) and include things like making time to date.  fail 3.  Make career focused decisions, learn new skills of my trade  ✓ Looking back on January and part of February, I can't seem to put my hand on anything tangible I have accomplished so far.  But I've been busy working, to the point of exhaustion. Living out of hotel rooms and not exactly making the best food choices while on the road. And now I find myself wondering if am just "being busy" or authentically being productive? I want a do-over and the great th...

This is more of a list of the ones I am curious about , don't own the devices and will like to test them out this year. 1. Aqua Exercises I know it was popular back in 2013 and 2014 but is it making a comeback? I have yet to take a class but hopefully I can find a health club in Boston that offers classes like hydro spinning and etc Also, not related but I will like to sign up for a soul cycle class someday! 2. Wearable Technology I think am more interested in apparels like the sports bra [ OMSignal ] that monitors your heart rate as oppose to gadgets. I still don't see the point of owning a smart watch, if you already own a smartphone, a smart tablet and a smart desktop  [which is my current situation] Perhaps if I did not already own a smartphone and tablet, splurging on a smartwatch will make sense. But since I am with my phone 24/7 and have access to the apps on my phone, i don't see the point of a watch that does the same thing! ...

Merry Christmas! to you and your families I honestly had this plan to share something inspirational, to impart you with a positive message of love, kindness, gratitude, generosity and just the art of being an awesome human being in general. But truth be told this message is being currently preached and regurgitated over and over and over again that i'll be surprise if you haven't heard a version of it before. Today's Christmas was honestly like a regular day for me. I didn't do anything I wouldn't have typically done on a lazy Sunday with no work lol. I worked out. Did some runs around the fields and also some stairs workouts.  I ate. Some good food/some bad food .  Drank some coffee and basically lounged all day.  I swear in another lifetime I am a cat because I have perfected the art of solo lounging at home. If I must impart some type of wisdom it will be this 2 things 1. Buy a gratitude journal and everyday find something positive ...

If you're looking for a Hollywood blockbuster story line , with a somewhat happy ending despite the sad reality of slavery, this is not the novel for you. This book is raw. It does not sugar coat the slave experience or how expendable their lives where. I took me more than a month to read this book because it was emotionally tough to get through the chapters. I had to put it down several times and walk away from it but I think that's the whole point. That this was a horrible time in american history and not some far fetched horror movie. If you have any compassion in you, it's suppose to make you feel that sad. Even though on one end it's a work of fiction, it is still a very fair depiction of what the slaves went through. Somewhere in America, someone's great grand relatives went through this and this may as well have been their biography. This story has no happy ending and in reality when you look at the black american experience today and what's...