Healthy Habits - Day 9

Reflection: Encouragement, empowerment, and accompaniment are very powerful when combined. As a result of these three elements from close friends, I was able to run 5mi today without walking or stopping. Now I seek ways to pay that same encouragement, empowerment, and accompaniment forward.

Day 9

Fitness

• Morning: 2 Sets of 30 Sit-Ups w/ 6 Sets of 10 Push-Ups, 1 Set of 40 Sit-Ups with 4 Sets of 10 Push-Ups
• Evening: 5mi run on treadmill in 47:37 plus 10min cool down at steep incline and yoga leg stretches.
• Late Eve: 2 min Plank

Mindfulness

• Morning: Flexibility and Collaboration
• Evening: 5-Minute Meditation
• Daily Readings: Encouragement

Each one should endeavor to develop and assist the other toward mutual advancement . . . . --Shoghi Effend

Our actions will help on the world, will spread civilization, will help the progress of science, and cause the arts to develop. Without action nothing in the material world can be accomplished, neither can words unaided advance a man in the spiritual Kingdom. It is not through lip-service only that the elect of God have attained to holiness, but by patient lives of active service they have brought light into the world.

Therefore strive that your actions day by day may be beautiful prayers. Turn towards God, and seek always to do that which is right and noble. Enrich the poor, raise the fallen, comfort the sorrowful, bring healing to the sick, reassure the fearful, rescue the oppressed, bring hope to the hopeless, shelter the destitute! -- `Abdu'l-Baha
Encourage the children from their earliest years to master every kind of learning, and make them eager to become skilled in every art - the aim being that through the favouring grace of God, the heart of each one may become even as a mirror disclosing the secrets of the universe, penetrating the innermost reality of all things; and that each may earn world-wide fame in all branches of knowledge, science and the arts. -- `Abdu'l-Baha

Food Log

• Breakfast: Heart Thrive Energy Bar
• Snack: Cheddar Popcorn
• Lunch: Spinach Salad with Strawberries, Blueberries, and Feta
• Dinner: Quinoa - Southwestern Style w/ Chicken Sausage, Black Beans, Spinach, Bell Peppers, Onions, and Mushrooms

Tomorrow, I commit myself to encouraging Jamilah as she prepares for Soccer and keeping positive throughout the game.