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Here Come the Fitness Ads!

December 29, 2010 by Scott "Q" Marcus Leave a Comment

As much as I appreciate the the Holidays, one has to admit it possess a downside: the relentless, unceasing, non-stop drone of promotions, commercials, and ads; loosely wrapped in pseudo-emotion by manipulative agencies pretending to appear as caring; with a primary objective being no more than inflating their coffers at our expense.

I do not consider all shopkeepers as greedy and soulless. Most are you and I, working their day-to-day, attempting to keep their heads above water. I also take no issue with profitability; we each must pay our bills. I am self-employed and therefore extremely aware of what it’s like to stare at the ceiling all night concerned how to pay my vendors, keep the government satisfied; and still claim some folding money for my family.

But can we be honest? After 132 renditions of the “Night Before Christmas” re-written into unusual off-tone radio commercials, can we unite hand-in-hand and admit that it wears down the psyche?

Deepak Chopra, lecturer and author, stated in December, “We are spending money we don’t have to buy things we don’t need to impress people we don’t like.”

Ouch. That kind of hurts; but “why?”

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Filed Under: Change, goals, mental health, Newspaper Column, Power of Attitude, resolutions, Self Talk Tagged With: deepak chopra, fitness scams, habit change, inner doubts, inner truth, new year's resolutions, night before christmas, pride, resolutions that stick, self esteem, why resolutions fail

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