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This is my favorite recipe that is tasty as well as healthy. It’s simple to prepare and takes less than 10 minutes. I like fruits a lot! Especially when conglomerated into fun healthy food like this, Slurp…!! I relish ‘em!!

Ingredients:

A. Strawberries
B. Pineapple
C. Apple
D. Almonds
E. Raisins
F. Low fat cheese
G. Sugar/Honey

Cheesy & Healthy Fruit Salad in making...

1. Cut/chop the fruits and cheese into tiny pieces of around 1 x 1 cm size.

2. Cut almonds into thin slices.

3. Heat a non-stick pan and pour some sugar and a little water. Let it caramelize.

4. Transfer ingredients A-F into the pan and stir for 2-3 minutes.

5. Transfer it onto a beautiful crystal bowl and spread some honey on it.

6. Garnish with a few mint leaves for the final touch.

Here You Go!

Now, Indulge… Guilt-free!

Nutritional Aspect:

> Strawberries and honey are rich in anti-oxidants. Helps enhance immune system. Heck, they are tasty as well!

> Almonds provide rich source of Vitamin E and magnesium. They are good anti-cancer element.

> Pineapples are rich in Vitamin C and bromelain which helps in tissue repair mechanisms that will help your cells heal quicker. They are also vital for immune system.

> Low fat cheese - Some of you might frown at me for this, but understand this - when you have this in less quantity, it is healthier than you imagine. Fat is essential nutrition for our body. Low fat cheese is rich in calcium and proteins.

So, what is stopping you from trying it? Please enter your comments and share your ideas.

Do let me know on what you want to read here, so i can feature them on my blog for you!

Cheers,
Rk

Health Food Recipes Gourmet food, Health Food Recipes, healthy eating

In my Goals for 2009, disciplining myself is listed as my #1 priority. While researching ways of getting disciplined, i came across some pretty interesting stuff… Let me share them with you:

#1. Guilt Vs. Self-Discipline:

This was the first time that i ever watched a ’spiritual’ video on YouTube!! I found it really enlightening.

Take-aways from this video (by Guruka Singh):

1. Make discipline your best friend.

2. Make discipline a habit, and enjoy doing it. Make it become your lifestyle. and never look back!

3. Develop habit as a routine, and make it an essential part of your life. Make it your ritual.

4. In any case if you were not able to keep up your disciplined routine, move on.. Don’t feel guilty. Guilt is self-torture. It will take you away from discipline.

5. You screw up sometimes.. So what? Make sure that you learn from it, and move on with your new disciplined habit.

#2. Steve Pavlina says:

“The five pillars of self-discipline are: Acceptance, Willpower, Hard Work, Industry, and Persistence. If you take the first letter of each word, you get the acronym “A WHIP” — a convenient way to remember them, since many people associate self-discipline with whipping themselves into shape.”

Did you notice how people associate the word ‘discipline’ to? No wonder why i find it so hard to get myself disciplined! Guilt, as Guruka Singh says, is nothing but self-torture (whipping themselves into shape)!!

When you signal your brain that you are going to undergo a painful process (here, getting disciplined), it will do it’s best to stop that activity, since the primary objective of our nervous system is to protect our body. This is due to what Tony Robbins calls “The power of associations“. Our neuro-muscular system has been designed in such a way as to avoid pain and obtain pleasure. So it largely depends on what we associate our feelings to. This is the basics of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).

Getting back to the topic - We need to associate pleasure to the things that we want to achieve (like getting up early in the morning, doing exercises and meditate) and associating pain with pleasurable sins (like getting up late, unhealthy eating, etc).

So, How to develop self discipline?

• Take small steps, keep it consistent and enjoy the process.
• Reward yourself every week for the commitment you’ve shown.
• Make discipline a habit.
• Associate pleasure to following your disciplined routine.

Conclusion:

Persistence is the key. Not only for this, but for achieving anything.

It Takes 26 Days to Create a Habit, or to Break it.

Cheers!

Radhakrishnan KG

Discipline Discipline, Empowerment, Personal Growth

Happy New Year 2009!

So This is it!

I have finally made my mind to start blogging, starting now. It’s been almost 10 years since i started using Internet, and have read hundreds if not thousands of blogs over these years. People called it ‘Web Logs’ initially, and evolved into what we all now know as ‘Blogs’. Some of them left a long lasting impression in my life.

Why did i start blogging?

Many reasons - I want to share my experiences. I want to be heard. I want to contribute to the same media which taught me several things in life. I want to make difference in people’s lives.

I have listed my new year goals here, sorted by priority. Have a look at it, we might have something in common!

I will share with you a few strategies and plans that worked for me to enhance my life. If applied correctly, it can work for you too!

Wishing you all a healthy, wealthy, joyous and rocking new year!

Cheers,

Rk

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