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yummyrawfood:

Upside-Down Cake

serves 4 persons, for 10x10 cm cake


Ingredients
8 dates
1/2 cup shredded coconut
Fruit - bananas, kiwis, blueberries or any other fruit you desire.


Instructions
In a food processor mix dates and shredded coconut together until you get sticky pastry. Take a small bowl or plastic/glass container and lay down one layer of banana slices with covering the sides as well. Take about 2/3 of date-coconut mixture and press on top of that. Now start layering the fruit inside - blueberries, kiwis, bananas or any other fruit. Now cover all of it with remaining 1/3 of date-coconut mixture. Place in the fridge for few hours or overnight. When taking out of the container carefully loosen the edges with a knife and turn the cake upside down on the plate.


For step-by-step instructions look here.

dreaming-thin-xo:

Fake it until you make it applies to so many things in life!

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healthy-lissome:

Act like it. If you don’t feel motivated or enthusiastic then act like it. The strange thing is that within a few minutes you actually start to feel motivated or enthusiastic for real.

Move the goalposts. Set a large and specific goal. This will motivate you much more than small goals. A big goal has a big effect and can create a lot of motivation.

Start slow. Instead of jumping into something at full speed start slow. When you do that your mind will not visualize the task as something hard that you have to do fast, fast, fast. If your mind sees such things guess what often happens? Yep, you don’t get started. Actually getting started, even if it’s at a slow pace, is a whole lot better than not getting started at all.

Compare yourself with yourself. Not with others. Comparing what you have and your results to what other people have and have accomplished can really kill your motivation. There are always people ahead of you. Most likely quite a bit of people. And a few of them are miles ahead. So focus on you. On your results. And how you can and have improved them.

**Reviewing your results is important so you see where you have gone wrong in the past to avoid similar missteps further on. But it’s also important because it’s a great motivator to see how much you have improved and how far you have come. Often you can be pleasantly surprised when you do such a review.

Remember your successes. And let them flow through your mind instead of your failures. Write down your successes. Consider using a journal of some kind since it’s easy to forget your successes.

Act like your heroes. Read about them, watch them, listen to them. Discover what they did that was special and what made them tick. But remember that they are people just like us. So let them inspire you instead of looking up at them admiringly.

Get out of your comfort zone. Face your challenges to get a real boost of motivation.  

Don’t fear failure. Instead redefine it as feedback and as a natural part of a successful life. As Michael Jordan said:

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

Do some research on what you are about to do. Then your expectations will be more grounded in reality and you can also get good hints on what difficulties that you might run into along the way. Managing your expectations can lower the often almost explosive initial enthusiasm. But it can also lessen the lack of motivation that usually follows when most of that enthusiasm has dissipated.

Write down your goals and reasons for working towards them. Tape them on your wall, computer or bathroom mirror. Then you’ll be reminded throughout the day and it becomes easier to stay on track and stay focused.

Break it down. Break down your task or project into small steps. And just start with focusing on that first small step. When you are done move on to the next and just focus on that one. The small successes will keep your motivation up and keeping your focus away from the big picture stops you from becoming overwhelmed and discouraged. It’s amazing how much you can get done if you follow this simple method.

Find what makes YOU happy.  And do it as much as you can. 

I condensed this article: http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2007/06/13/25-simple-ways-to-motivate-yourself/

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turbogirl:

LOL! ALL. THE. TIME.

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lizziesjourneytoweightloss:

Plateaus are temporary!! Hang in there =)

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