Chin Up...

There is one woman in my kickboxing class with the worst posture ever. Her entire upper body droops, shoulders are crunched over with chin and head following suit. There is no medical condition involved, in fact Jan comments on needing to stand up straighter. Every time I see her I want to adjust her or at least say pull her shoulders back. But, I bite my tongue. Interestingly, almost every other woman in this class has commented on her posture to me at one time or another. I'm thinking we all might need to do an intervention on Jan just so we can focus more on what matters. How sad is that. Here we are a big group of well intended people ready to do a serious cardio workout so we can try to age as gracefully as possible and we get caught up in someone else's shoulder business. This woman's posture seems to be an easy fix to us. If Jan would just practice standing up straight with her butt tucked under and shoulders back we all know she would look like a different. Is there an easy fix with your show? If you keep getting the same critique, are you really listening? Do you ignore these comments? Ponder that as you like, just make sure you pull your shoulders back and hold your head high because "She's listening."

She buzz words

• Posture
• Refine
• Refinance
• Kudos

Right now she could be

• Waiting for lab test results
• Studying for her drivers test
• Car shopping
• Waxing her eyebrows

The Journal of Consumer Research reports that grocery shoppers who used accredit or debit card spent 30% more than those who use cash.

Most credit card minimum payments are only 2.5 percent of the actual bill making it a grueling task to pay off., www.Kiplinger.com has a debt calculator that shows how long and how much more per month it will take to pay it off sooner (and cheaper).

She fact:

Approximately 8% of working women born since 1956 too one year or more off from work during their childbearing years. (Source: American Sociological Review)

Here is Parade Magazines list of America's Favorite Stars

Is her star on the list?

• Will Smith
• Tom Hanks
• Reese Witherspoon
• George Clooney
• Meryl Streep
• Brad Pitt
• Julia Roberts
• Johnny Depp
• Jennifer Aniston
• Patrick Dempsey

She Facts

Almost half of personal bankruptcies are due to illness and high medical bills.

Maybe it's because the average American eats about 54 apples, 42 servings of broccoli and 96 cups of ice cream a year.

(Source: Reader's Digest)

She Fact

• 40 million people worldwide are infected with HIV
• More than 1 million Americans are likely to be infected with HIV.
• 20% don't know they are infected
• There are 50,000 new infections each year.
• www.hiv.com

She quote

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence

She could be a

• Produce manager
• Traveling nurse
• Translator
• Department store window decorator
• Transit employee

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