Brain injury and being overweight sometimes occurs because of a lack of information. A lack of information that no one ever told us about or Information that we were not ready to receive. But, when my A1C climbed to 6.3 I knew something needed to change so I did not become diabetic. And what I did changed my life. In the event that you know of anyone struggling to lose weight, please share this article with them. Thank you.
On August 2, 2021 I wrote an article, A1C, PreDiabetes, Losing Weight, Walking, Working Out, Flav City and Bobby Parrish to share what motivated me to change my diet and to start walking. In short, after I met with my Dr. and he told me that I needed to lose weight. So, I learned a lot from watching You Tube presentations that Bobby Parrish had created.
From watching these videos I learned how to read labels and avoid foods that included specific ingredients. I also watched other You Tube videos on what to eat and what not to eat. Over the next year and a half, I lost about 40 pounds and my A1C went down from 6.3 to 4.9 by changing my diet, walking, working out with weights, and training in martial arts.
Not long after I started walking I got the idea to record the amount of steps that I was walking each day. So I got a 3D Fit Bud active step counter and started. Since that time I have recorded the day, amount of steps and the equivalent mileage on 3×5 cards in a spiraled bound index cards each time that I walk. Has been fun to do this and see the progress made over time. When I fill each 3×5 card I add up the amount of steps and the correlating miles walked. Since the end of June 2021 I have been walking when ever the weather permits and it is not raining.To date I have walked a total of 6,213,246 steps and when translated into miles I have walked 3185.95 miles. Walking has been something I look forward to doing each day.
I also engage in full body weight training and honing my skills in different martial art disciplines. I use the principle of neuroplasticity to create new neural pathways and brain reorganization through repetitive mirrored movements. I do so by engaging both sides of my body in the same movement. Shortly after I began walking I had an idea. The idea was to write quotes that speak to me, as well as other thoughts on 3×5 ruled index cards. I then started taking these cards with me when I went to walk. As I walked I would memorize what I had written and review when I went on other walks. Overtime I have amassed a stack of quotes and thoughts on 3×5 cards that I carry with me as I walk. Memorizing and reviewing these quotes and thoughts, as I walk, has also been a highlight in the process of engaging both my mind and my body.
Engaging my mind in the process has given me the ability to share what I memorized in my presentations.
I Share the Above with You
I share the above with you to encourage you in several ways. In the event that your A1C is high, find an exercise program to help you to lose weight. Change your diet and begin reading labels on the food products you purchase. Find an exercise program that will help you to develop new neural pathways and brain reorganization. Work on improving your mind by memorizing quotes and thoughts that speak to you. I also memorize Bible verses. Get yourself some 3×5 index cards and write quotes and thoughts on those cards. In the event that you would like to memorize quotes that I have, below is a list of some of those quotes. And with my experience, the process of memorization just takes time. So, don’t judge your efforts.
And as I need to remember, baby steps turn into miles when put together.
Here is a link to an article that I wrote that will give you some guidance. Some guidance and suggestions for starting the process of creating a program to create new neural pathways and brain reorganization.
Neuroplasticity, Small Successes and Learning/Relearning Skills and Skill Sets
In the event that you have any questions with the process of creating new neural pathways and brain reorganization, please contact me. My email address is secondchancetolive1@yahoo.com. Please put neuroplasticity in the subject line so I don’t think your email is spam. I look forward to helping you.
Several Thoughts and Quotes that Inspire Me to Create Hope in my Life. In the Process of Memorizing these Thoughts and Quotes I also Empower my Brain.
“Big things have small beginnings.” Prometheus
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” Babe Ruth
“All things start out as hopes that end up as habits.” Lillian Hellman
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.” Lao Tzu
“I will prepare and someday my chance will come.” Abraham Lincoln
“You are the only person on Earth who can use your ability.” Zig Ziglar
“Inch by inch, life’s a cinch. Yard by yard, it’s very hard” John Bytheway
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” Auguste Rodin
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt
“I have not failed. I have found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Thomas Edison
“Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.” Zig Ziglar
“Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.” Bear Bryant
“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” Guy Finley
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments the better.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Hope is being able to see that there is light, despite all the darkness.” Desmond Tutu
“It is not that I am so smart. It is just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein
“Believe in yourself, go after your dreams, and don’t let anyone put you in a box.” Daya
“If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.” Tim Fargo
“Confidence is going after Moby Dick (whale) in a row boat and taking tartar sauce.” Zig Ziglar
“When setting out on a journey, do not see the advice of someone who has never left home.” Rumi
“Don’t judge your day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson
“The most common way people give away their power is by thinking that they have any.” Alice Walker
“Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens.” Wilfred A. Peterson
“Those who danced were considered to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.” Angela Monet
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The three most important ways to lead people are:… by example… by example… by example.” Albert Schweitzer
“Our circumstances are not meant to keep us down, but they are meant to build us up.” Craig J. Phillips MRC, BA
“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” John Salk
“Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.” Banksy
“Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.” Charles K. Kao
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear.” Ambrose Redmon
“Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new-ending.” Carl Bard
“Persistence and resilience only come through having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.” Gever Tulley
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, to learn more, to do more, to become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams
“Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add specifically your own creation.” Bruce Lee
“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” B.C. Forbes
“In my experience, I have found that adversity is what has made me successful because I refused to give up because of adversity.” Craig J. Phillips MRC, BA
“Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” Albert Einstein
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always to that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain
“Once we start walking, before long we will be able to look back and see how far we have come because we did not give up.” Craig J. Phillips MRC, BA
“You can not connect the dots looking forwards. You can only connect the dots looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you confidence, even when your heart leads you off the well worn path. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Jobs
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, “I used everything you game me.” Emma Bombeck
“If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to live the life that you have imagined…you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau
“When you dance to your own rhythm people may not understand you; they may even hate you. But mostly they’ll wish they had the courage to do the same.” Sue Fitzmaurice
“Purpose is about a process and a journey, not a destination. I can not know until I know and knowing just takes what it takes. There are no silver bullets or magic potions. By accepting that reality, I am given the gift of knowing. I am given the gift of knowing by trusting the process, a loving God and myself.” Craig J. Phillips MRC, BA
“Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Jobs
“Insist on yourself, never imitate. Your own gift you can present with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you only have an extemporaneous half-possession. Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.” Henry David Thoreau
“I was told over and over again that I would never be successful. That I was not going to be competitive. And the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do is shrug and say, “We’ll just have to see.” Dick Fosbury (Inventor of the Fosbury Flop and winner of the gold medal in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City
“Don’t quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can’ see it. Listen to your own drum and your own drum only. It is the one that makes the sweetest sound.” Simon Sineck
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” Steve Job
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure, it is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We were all meant to shine as children do. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light to shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same, as we are liberated from our own fear. Our presence automatically liberates others. Sir, I just want to say thank you. You saved my life.” From the movie, Coach Carter. Quote attributed to Marianne Williamson
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