Quips and Tips for Achieving Your Goals

These six weight loss tips for couples will help you slim down, tone up, and get to know your partner in a whole new way! My husband and I do Pilates, core fusion, and various exercise DVDs together. Not only are we learning more about each other’s bodies and personalities, we’re increasing our motivation to get and stay fit.

We’ve also found certain exercise DVDs to be a great way to lose weight as a couple. I’ve listed several of them here, in these tips for losing weight as a couple….

Before the tips, a quip:

“Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.” ~ Peter De Vries.

Are you eating for emotional reasons? The first and possibly most important weight loss tip is to figure out why you eat when you’re not hungry. This involves improving your mind-body connection, which some types of exercise do. For instance, one of my favorite exercise DVDs incorporates yoga, dance, Pilates, cardio and strength training – all of which can strengthen your mind-body connection and help with weight loss. Click Fit in 5: Ultimate Body Blitz for more info, and read on for six fat burning tips for couples…

Have you just broken up with someone you love? These songs for singles may help you feel better… all the tunes below are reader suggestions from my The Best Songs for Broken Hearts – Music to Heal Heartache article – and these tips for music singles for new singles are more creative than my original songs for singles!

This comment is why I wanted to write this second article about heartbreak songs:

“Those are all good songs to break up by, but obviously, the person who wrote the above article, as well as the people commenting, are not into country music.” ~ C.

When I made my original list of songs for singles, I didn’t include country music, rap, or anything other than the run-of-the-mill rock ‘n roll and pop songs. But, that original list of music singles worked for some readers:

“Wow, it’s like you stole my mp3 player and posted the saddest songs,” said Chris. “This is a great list! My favorite would have to be Avril Lavigne’s “So Much for My Happy Ending.”

The following list of readers’ favorite breakup songs includes music that I never would’ve considered, including country and and bands I’ve never heard of! If you want to cry your heart out because of your breakup, click Sad Songs. And if you think there’s a chance you might get back together with your ex, you might find The Magic of Making Up helpful!!

These tips for romance will have you celebrating February 14 like never before! Here, a relationship expert shares several creative and unique Valentine’s Day gift ideas – you’re sure to find a romantic way to say “I love you” here…

Before the tips, a quip:

“When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.” ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

Expressing a romantic thought like that may not be a creative way to say “I love you” on Valentine’s Day, but a little traditional romance goes a long way! A more unique way to celebrate February 14 is to play a couple’s board game, such as Truth or Dare: A Game of Passion. Click the pink box for info, and read on for Michael Webb’s creative (yet inexpensive) ways to say “I love you.”

I just returned from two weeks on Maui, and I’m already planning my second vacation to this amazing island in Hawaii! This list of the best things to do in Maui includes some of my favorite activities… plus a few things I’m saving for my next trip to Maui.

Before the tips, a quip:

“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience,” said Daniel J. Boorstin. “The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.  He goes “sight-seeing.”

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” ~ Lin Yutang.

Perhaps, but the truth is I’d rather be at the Aston Maui Kaanapali Villas than in my own home! Two weeks isn’t long enough…but two months might be. If you’re traveling to Hawaii and need a guidebook, click Maui Trailblazer: Where to Hike, Snorkel, Paddle, Surf, Drive – it’s full of adventures! And, here are ten fun things to do in Maui…

These ten reasons couples break up can help you avoid the relationship problems that lead to Splitsville and the pain of letting go of someone you love. Remember: all couples face relationship challenges, but not all problems lead to breaking up!

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages,” said Friedrich W. Nietzsche.

If you’re not treating your partner like a friend (with respect, love, generosity, honesty, acceptance, unselfishness, etc), then you’re weakening the foundation of your relationship. For tips for healthy love, click Communication Miracles for Couples: Easy and Effective Tools to Create More Love and Less Conflict. And, read on for ten types of relationship problems…