Back to Work!
After a wonderful 12 week maternity leave, I am back to work and I look forward to working with you all again through our blog and Facebook updates as well as in person at the clinic! My clinic hours are still the same: Tuesday-Thursday 7:30am-7pm. If you are wanting to work on improving your nutrition, health, and wellness in the new year, give me a call or email me to set up an appointment! Individual appointments are billed to your insurance. Our next STRIVE session will begin March 15th. Stay tuned for more details as it gets closer.
If you have free time tomorrow, Wednesday, January 13th, come check out our clinic booth at the Rec Center Health Fair from 2-6pm at the Rec Center gym. Deidra Van Gilder and her pharmacy students will be offering a bone density screening (heel scan) and we will have lots of great resources to help you start the new year off on the right foot!
For those interested 🙂 — Corbin, my sweet baby boy, is pictured above at 2 months old and below is him this last weekend at 3.5 months old. Time flies when you’re having fun!
Kelsey Raml, MS, RD, LN
Registered Dietitian
kelsey.raml@brownclinic.org
Direct Dial: 884-4226
A great way to start todays blog is with a quote in the title above from C.S. Lewis. What is Conviction: A firmly held belief or opinion of what it is you want above all else. How enthusiastic are you about your goals? Do you just sit back and wait for something to fall in your lap and happen, or do you go all out in order to try and achieve it? Conviction gives you what you sincerely want, but to achieve it, you must be willing to take the “plunge”, and go after it. “If you work with steadfast determination and conviction for long enough, you will achieve your goals.” ( Poissant and Godefrey, 1994, p247.)
“Conviction is obtained through our belief system. A resolve within oneself that banishes all doubt despite the challenges faced”:–(Smash! Fit for Kids) Here I am at the start of the Disney Marathon. All kinds of self doubts going through my head. Am I ready for this? Have I done enough to prepare myself? Does my time really matter? Then you have to keep telling yourself: I matter…to me! I love this quote from Henry Ford: ” I refuse to recognize that there are impossibilities. I cannot discover that any one knows enough about anything or anyone to say what is and what is not possible. Therefore, if you have the belief to achieve, then you will find the conviction to reach your goals regardless of what somebody else has to say.”
There will be good days and bad days. They will be days when you are tired. Don’t quit on yourself—the reward is too good. Believe in yourself! You must have confidence in both yourself and your plan—whatever your plan may entail going forward about how you can take care of yourself; to be healthier! Break your plan down. Take it is small increments. How fast you achieve things is not a contest. Slow is good! Hold on to your convictions, and be enthusiastic about them. Look at the enthusiasm we are all having in the first picture getting ready to go for a run. Why? Because we want to! Because we can! Someday we won’t be able to. Today is not that day!
Don’t ever forget this! Keep moving everybody!
What is your Passion? What is it that makes you happy, or is truly a part of you? Maybe the better question is, How is Passion defined? One definition I found defined it as the following: strong inclination or desire toward a self-defining activity that one likes (or even loves), that one finds important (high valuation), and in which one invests time and energy. What is more important is when this remains under the individuals control. This occurs when the person views their activity as part of their identity.
Now, how do you find that Passion? For many of us, we may even be looking too hard. Listen to yourself, as much of this will come naturally. One quote by Ron Rubin and Stuart Avery Gold state: “Discovering your passion will ignite the fire and fan the flames of your dreams and desires. Living your passion will put the world on notice that you are different. Different because your life is more purposeful, fulfilling, joyous, and exciting. Passion provides you with the best possible odds to successfully catch and live your dream.” How else can you enjoy something so much, and yet have fun with it? This is what exercise, and in particular running, does for me. It is part of me, and allows me to try and bring that same feeling to you. And, you need to have fun doing it!
To succeed in life, you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality. Look inside ourselves…it is there. We all have something we have a likeness for, something to believe in…our Passion! For me, the thing that makes this even better is someone to have along side you with the same desire and passion…my life partner…my wife Sarah!
Keep focused! Never stop! Make our passion reality! The last quote I have here sums it up better than anything!
Keep moving everybody!
A quote by Vince Lombardi: “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” How determined are you? How focused are you on achieving what you want? The look on our faces a lot of times will tell how determined we can be. It starts here…determine you are going to do something, then going after it to achieve it no matter what.
