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Wednesday, February 3, 2016
STEP 2: Portion Sizes and Balancing Nutrients
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Sunday, January 24, 2016
Continuing To Cut Carbs
Hey, ladies! I hope you guys are off to a great start this first week. It's Day 6! What have you been up to? Are you still up for the challenge? And guess what...tomorrow is your cheat day! Please listen to my tips in the recording below.
Our 30-Day Challenge: First, Let's Bust The Carbs!
Hey Ladies! I am so excited that you came on board to change the way you eat which will eventually help to change the way you look and feel. This year, and beyond, we will be striving to eat healthy and stay in shape. Please listen to the recording below and leave me your feedback. You can write your comments below or hit me up on Facebook.
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Naturally Confident: My Bare Face is Beautiful
By Delina Cummings, Author, Life, Love & Inspiration: Quotes & Words of Wisdom
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Feeling upretty because your make-up is not on? Beauty is skin deep and it is in the eyes of the beholder, are some of what we were taught, proverbially. However, each and every one of us is beautiful and we don’t need makeup to prove that. Therefore, once we know this we can begin to embrace and love ourselves for who we are. We can become confident and our self-esteem level gets an instant boost.
A few weeks ago I took to my Facebook page and dared women on my friends’ list to go “bare face” by posting photos of their faces without any makeup whatsoever. I was thrilled to see how much interest this challenge attracted. The theme was, “MY BARE FACE IS BEAUTIFUL: Embracing My Natural Beauty.” The competition (ran on Friday July 24. 2015) is powered by Life, Love & Inspiration, an online self-improvement initiative designed to inspire and empower readers.
It also formed part of a personal enhancement and self-empowerment program I am designing to help my friends and women across the world build self-esteem. It is to remind women that we should love our faces and our entire selves just the way we are. While wearing make-up is acceptable, it is when we become a slave to makeup, and feel we cannot leave the house without it, that we know we have a representative face. That is ‘the face’ we put on to face the world when we go out.
With this, we are no longer being our natural selves. We are being someone (face wise) that we think the world is attracted to more and appreciates more. But, when we go home and take our mask off, we see ourselves for who we naturally are and we feel ‘unpretty’ and unworthy because we are not embracing or are not in love with the natural-faced person staring back at us in the mirror.
It was all fun and some of those who took the challenge were able to break out and begin loving their natural look. Winner Gem Sookram, took the prize for following the rules of the competition and dashing into her photo some creativity and poise. The most flattering photo, in terms of creativity, came from Penny Proud, who narrowly lost the winning position because her photo was not a selfie.
The prize was a copy of the recently published book, Life, Love & Inspiration: Quotes and Words of Wisdom, by yours truly and a chance to be featured in this publication.
Copyright 2015. Life, Love & Inspiration.
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
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Friday, May 15, 2015
The Imperfection of Others Makes Us Better
“Without the imperfection of others, we are unable to see our own flaws; we are unable to search ourselves and see our own weaknesses; we are unable to find and embrace our own strengths.” –From the book, Life, Love, & Inspiration, by Delina Cummings
Some of us are driven towards perfection--a virtue which really does not exist. The need to be perfect in all that we do and in all that those around us do may be so strong that we become what is called "perfectionists."
Whenever we encounter people who test our need for perfection because they are everything but perfectionists, it is easy to become frustrated.
On the brighter side, however, we need people’s imperfection to help show us our own imperfection. We are everything but flawless. We are weak and flawed just like anyone else. Our strive for perfection just provides an illusion, making us believe that our lives are perfect.
When we encounter people who do not live up to our high standards, it should provide an opportunity for us to search ourselves to determine if we are asking for too much. This can help us discover our own weaknesses. Once we discover them, we can now become conscious of our own strengths.
It is in the discovery of our own strengths that we are able to work on becoming better versions of ourselves and let go of the need for perfection in us, and in others.
Copyright@Delina Cummings 2015
Friday, May 8, 2015
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Thursday, November 20, 2014
C'est La Vie, So I Do Me
By Delina Cummings
I try not to worry unnecessarily for it takes away the pleasure of living.
I used to try to do good for the world but now my focus is doing good for me. I still help people, not out of obligation but, out of charity.
I used to pursue those who did me wrong to try and make their wrong right. Or I would take the fall and say, "It's my fault," for the sake of peace. These types of destructive behaviors no longer appeal to me.
Never did I once think there was a retributive bone in me, only to somehow discover it. It makes me powerful, and I'm not afraid to exercise it.
If I let some things slide, it's not because I'm timid or feeble or afraid or powerless; it's because I realize it takes far more energy to fight fights which add nothing to my existence.
People tend to think too many I's and Me's in your speech is a wanton display of arrogance. To know I and Me is a sign of maturity, of knowing yourself, and not being afraid to tell the world who you are and what you stand for. Knowing yourself deters others from taking you for granted.
My patience may run thin easily when dealing with difficult people, not because of haste or quick temper, but because I no longer alot time to unproductive interactions.
Gone are the days when I cried bucket full of tears when someone hurt me. Now I close the windows, bring the curtains down, shut the doors, turn off the lights and say, "c'est la vie." In wisdom and maturity, and with reduced tolerance for ignorance, it has become so easy to let negativity go.
Fake and selfish friends irk me, and those who believe they have the right to know all the private details of your life in order to feel like a friend. Of these, I rather have none, although they keep buzzing around for no apparent reason.
People's opinions, I leave with them there. I've learnt that, in the end, what matters is doing doing what I want, what I believe is best for me and those in my care. External opinions create distortion of which the consequences I have to face on my own. No one else will feel my pain or shame, no one else can cry my tears. So why bother listening to what someone else has to say?
I also value life far more than I used to as a youth. I feel for the unborn who had not the chance to live, and those condemned to death. There is nothing humane in taking lives, yet we call ourselves "human".
I'm accountable only to God. Otherwise, I live as I please, and death may have no sting. C'est la vie.
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