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Living to 100, Our Lady of Weight Loss's mother, Harriet Taylor (94 years young; sure to live past 100) shares her anti-aging secrets! Amazingly young and active, an inspiration to us all.

Top Ten Longevity Tips Straight from the Mouth of The Almost Ancient Wise Woman

1. Surround yourself with friends. The ones who are still living.

2. Read all the time; romance novels primarily - with happy endings. I'd prefer to read about sex. I've looked around, and believe me, reading about it is better than doing it with what's available.

3. Watch news only once a day, or I'd be stark staring mad.

4. I don't bother my children. I'm the ideal mother. I don't haunt them. I would never come uninvited, even if you lived one block away.

5. I don't over eat, but I don't eat health food like you all do.

6. I have a good disposition. Don't get depressed. Sad here and there, but don't let it carry into my every day life.

7. Watch television selectively. Not all day long. Particularly like Oprah, tremendously. Don't you?

8. That's enough? Isn't it ... oh, I'm not a big shopper - don't buy a lot of clothes. I manage to look all right.

9. Keep sadness out of my conversations with friends. Focus on what's good in life. Should one of the ladies get maudlin, I change the topic.

10. You want to know what my big trick is ... my 'secret' to living long? Don't die! (peels of laughter ... she cracks herself up.)

Want to fill up on more happy? 21 Simple Ways to Be Happy (a Beliefnet special!!!)

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Janice

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Greg Voisen, creator of Inside Personal Growth and host of the Inside Personal Growth podcast is dedicated to providing their readers and listeners with the highest-quality podcast interviews, videos, news stories, tele-seminars and more featuring leading authors and thinkers in the field of personal growth.

Greg, most recently, interviewed a very inspiring, creative and lively author! ME!!! I wanted to not only share the interview and podcast with you, but I wanted also to share Inside Personal Growth with you. Inside Personal Growth is a great resource, a fabulous place to visit if you are interested in learning more about how you can improve every facet of yourself and your life!

Here follows an excerpt from Greg's interview with me and links to the podcast et al! Enjoy!!

"What a wonderful interview with a very inspiring, creative and lively author! Janice Taylor is one of the country's leading health and wellness coaches, and she writes from personal experience. In her new book, "All is Forgiven, Move On", Janice writes about her personal bout with weight loss and how she finally came to the point of acceptance and forgiving herself. This shift in her mindset has provided her the inner strength and ability to not only lose the weight, but to keep it off for years.

She explains that to change our bodies we need to radically shift our attitude-get out of our ruts, forgive ourselves for past sins, and move on with a positive outlook. In her book she offers 101 forgiving, fun and fat-burning steps along the road to weight loss to help readers recharge and stay inspired when the journey get rocky. Each of the steps in the book ends with a "point of view" -a fresh perspective on weight loss-and includes advice and activities.

"All Is Forgiven, Move On" is loaded with wonderful art, recipes and exercises that will engage the reader and get you moving in the right direction with your weight release program. I have personally reviewed many books on weight loss, and this is undoubtedly the most creative, fun and engaging book that I have ever reviewed. When you pick up "All is Forgiven, Move On" you realize that Janice has put her heart and soul into the message and really wants to help people learn how to love themselves, and lose weight." . . . .

For the full skinny and the podcast... Read On!

More yum delicious interviews:
Start Manifesting Your Dreams
Stop Overeating and Take CONTROL!!!
Dr. Ian Gives America a Kick in the Tush

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Janice
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A friend telephoned this morning and told me that Maya Angelou had been taken to Los Angeles Hospital. We, a group of friends, went to hear Maya speak last year. All hardcore, diehard fans, we ingested every poetic and meaningful word that she uttered.

Just in case you'd heard the same rumor, I am now happy to report that it is not true. Nevertheless, I do love Maya and I'd like to share one of poems with you.

Phenomenal Woman

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Spread the word ... NOT the Icing!
Janice
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"You are asked for this one day and one night to starve your body so your soul can feast on faith and adoration."

Kick in the Tush Club member, Mary, sent me this Yom Kippur poem by Philip Schultz. A beautiful piece that one can reflect upon - no matter their religion.

Yom Kippur by Philip Schultz

You are asked to stand and bow your head,
consider the harm you've caused,
the respect you've withheld,
the anger misspent, the fear spread,
the earnestness displayed
in the service of prestige and sensibility,
all the callous, cruel, stubborn, joyless sins
in your alphabet of woe
so that you might be forgiven.

You are asked to believe in the spark
of your divinity, in the purity
of the words of your mouth
and the memories of your heart.

You are asked for this one day and one night
to starve your body so your soul can feast
on faith and adoration.

You are asked to forgive the past
and remember the dead, to gaze
across the desert in your heart
toward Jerusalem.

To separate the sacred from the profane
and be as numerous as the sands
and the stars of heaven.

To believe that no matter what
you have done to yourself and others
morning will come and the mountain
of night will fade.

To believe, for these few precious moments,
in the utter sweetness of your life.

You are asked to bow your head
and remain standing,
and say Amen.

More deliciously meaningful links:
The 10 Commandments of Permanent Fat Removal
Woodstock, the Minister and Me
For the Love of Cake

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Janice

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Write Janice Taylor, Weight Loss Coach, Certified Hypnotist, Author and 50-pound big-time-loser for an introductory one-on-one coaching session.

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On a day such as this one - September 11 - people often wonder: Why does God allow suffering?

The Late Bishop H.G. Paulose Mar Gregorios, was asked by a student, following a speech he gave on December 29, 1987 during the MGOCSM Annual Conference, "Why should God who is goodness and love, allow all distress, sufferings, hunger, famine, nakedness, wickedness and peril in this world?"

The bishop replied. (A piece of what he said.)

"I cannot give a definite and satisfying answer. But I surmise as follows.

"God created the Universe and everything including man. It is moving towards Heaven, its final Goal of perfection and of being with God.

"It is like a massive Symphony Orchestra. The 6000 million players and what is there in the Universe as animate and inanimate things with their different instruments (features or personalities or character) are playing on the stage to the tunes and signs of the creator-conductor.

"The sounds produced from the bowed, wood, wind, brass, and percussion instruments of all kinds are there. Some are shrill. Some bass, some barking, some cooing, some hooting, some loud, some very low and so on. They are pop, jazz or rock. Each one separately may be disgusting, distasteful, nauseating and others unappreciable. But together they form the most celestial music. It is the music of the Universe: music of the conductor: God.

"After each session the orchestra makes the music more and more better and move to perfection.

"Similarly man and the Universe after each performance or moment of existence move towards its perfection, which is its end. This end is the life with God in Heaven.
In this orchestra all kinds of instruments of tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, wickedness, adultery are all necessary just as much as their opposites. Darkness and light are both creations of God. Without darkness we cannot know what is light. Evil is necessary to know what is good.

"I bring both blessings and disaster" Isaiah 45:7. So hard things and sufferings are also from God. See John 4:6,7. God created a leafy plant over Jona's head to protect him. But he also created a worm to eat it away.

"God is love. God is good. God created everything in this world. Everything he created is good. The good people and saints are as much needed as the wicked and the bad. For Him all these are necessary to move his much loved sons to perfection. For Him none of these are bad. Jesus does not condemn even the woman caught in adultery. John 8:11. Each one of his creations has a role to play in the orchestra.

"All the wickedness and sufferings are created as challenges to man to overcome them. All of us perceive, understand and try to solve all these sufferings and wickedness and thus by step-by-step move forward in our march to perfection. So whatever we find as bad around us is our hurdle and stepping-stone to heaven for those who want to go there. And God wants everyone to be there."

Spread the word ... NOT the icing,
Janice
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