Week of Grace is a 7-day journaling project, scientifically designed to you make you happier, healthier, and more productive. For 7 days, please join in and answer to the gratitude question posted! To get the full benefits, you should write out your response rather just think about it. Like the featured guests, you may comment here, or you can tweet #weekofgrace, email a friend, or even write out your response longhand.

Week of Grace for July 2010 starts Monday the 26th and ends Sunday, August 1.

Week of Grace is a 7-day journaling project, scientifically designed to you make you happier, healthier, and more productive. For 7 days, please join in and answer to the gratitude question posted! To get the full benefits, you should write out your response rather just think about it. Like the featured guests, you may comment here, or you can tweet #weekofgrace, email a friend, or even write out your response longhand.

Week of Grace for July 2010 starts Monday the 26th and ends Sunday, August 1.

Week of Grace is a 7-day journaling project, scientifically designed to you make you happier, healthier, and more productive. For 7 days, please join in and answer to the gratitude question posted! To get the full benefits, you should write out your response rather just think about it. Like the featured guests, you may comment here, or you can tweet #weekofgrace, email a friend, or even write out your response longhand.

Week of Grace for July 2010 starts Monday the 26th and ends Sunday, August 1.

Week of Grace is a 7-day journaling project, scientifically designed to you make you happier, healthier, and more productive. For 7 days, please join in and answer to the gratitude question posted! To get the full benefits, you should write out your response rather just think about it. Like the featured guests, you may comment here, or you can tweet #weekofgrace, email a friend, or even write out your response longhand.

Week of Grace for July 2010 starts Monday the 26th and ends Sunday, August 1.

What have you learned from your ex or exes that make your relationships happier and stronger today?

Week of Grace is a 7-day journaling project, scientifically designed to you make you happier, healthier, and more productive. For 7 days, please join in and answer to the gratitude question posted! To get the full benefits, you should write out your response rather just think about it. Like the featured guests, you may comment here, or you can tweet #weekofgrace, email a friend, or even write out your response longhand.

Week of Grace for July 2010 starts Monday the 26th and ends Sunday, August 1.

So, If you know someone who’s looking for a personal trainer, but are afraid of aggressive gym sales or being sucked into something that they can’t afford or won’t make them happy, please let them know about my low-to-no-pressure sales approach and guaranteed workouts.

Because your workouts should work out for you!!! (Ehehehehe… marketing copy can get so corny…)

ALL WORKOUTS FROM CHRISTINE BURKE FITNESS ARE 100% MONEY-BACK GUARANTEED

My workouts should make you happy! If you’re unhappy with a workout, I won’t take your money.

My workouts shouldn’t break your bank! I try to price very competitively, but if you still don’t feel you can afford my programs, please tell me what’s in your budget so that I may improve my services to you. You should NEVER feel that I judge you for how much money you have.

Your workouts should work out for you! You should NEVER feel pressured or obligated to buy my services. I will ALWAYS encourage you to pick exercises and programs that will serve YOU best, and I will actively look for other trainers, gyms, and programs that may work for you. Also, at the end of your program, you should NEVER feel guilty about “leaving me” to try something new.

My husband’s sage advice upon hearing this:

Don’t name your kids after terrorists.

Thanks, sweetie. Maybe one of our kids will be a best selling author like Justin Halpern (Sh*t My Dad Says).

I was looking for a few patriotic quotes for the 4th of July, and I especially liked these:

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. –Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. –Albert Camus

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. –William Faulkner

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must [...] undergo the fatigue of supporting it. –Thomas Paine

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. –George Bernard Shaw

These are obviously perfect for Independence Day, but I think they can also inspire you every day, year-round. Just think of “freedom” in terms of “freedom from regrets” or “freedom to be your best”, and maybe these quotes will motivate you towards a healthy, active lifestyle.

My favorite comic strips of all time are: The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom Country, Life in Hell, Dilbert, Foxtrot, and Basic Instructions.

If you’ve never heard of the last one, go immediately to basicinstructions.net and enjoy. I found out about Basic Instructions on Scott “Dilbert” Adams’s blog, and it turns out Scott Meyers, the creator of Basic Instructions, is amazingly cool.

How cool is he?

I told Scott I loved this strip about freaky runner parades, and could I have a mug of it? Rather than completely ignore me, which is usually what happens when I write to my internet heroes, he sends me a link to a customizable mug:

Anti-Running Mug from Scott Meyers of Basic Instructions

Now go buy it for all your runner friends, especially if they’ve just finished a marathon or half! I suggest the 15oz ringer’s mug in black or the travel mug. Buy yourself one of Scott’s signed books or Infini-Tee while you’re at it.

Thanks Scott! I hereby officially deem you Prime Exalted Cartoonist of LightheartedFitness.com!

Week of Grace is a 7-day journaling project, scientifically designed to you make you happier, healthier, and more productive.For 7 days, please join in and answer to the gratitude question posted! To get the full benefits, you should write out your response rather just think about it. Like the featured guests, you may comment here, or you can tweet #weekofgrace, email a friend, or even write out your response longhand.

Week of Grace for June 2010 starts Thursday the 24th and ends Wednesday the 30th.

Look for Featured Guests in the comments this Month:

• Denise Levine: Outside In Organizer
• Daniel K. Printz, Esq.: The Legacy Lawyer
• My client: Stephanie
• My client: Lynn
• My client: Paul