What People Must Understand in Order to Reach Their Health and Fitness Goals

Excellent health is of prime importance to everyone. Obviously, everyone wants to be fit and healthy but most are unaware of the right techniques. Determination, focus and strong will are the key to attain a healthy in-shape physique. Our daily life professional and social commitments have denied us for sparing time for attaining our health and fitness goals.Following are a few very important tips to reach our health and fitness goals:1. Always be Stress-free and Happy — Doubtlessly, a healthy and fresh mind helps a great deal in making you feel healthy overall. Mental happiness depicts the physical fitness of a person. Always try to be stress-free and happy without any tension whatsoever.For relieving yourself from stress and tensions, different indoor and outdoor activities can be a lot beneficial. These activities can be very effective in comforting yourself both physically and mentally.2. Proper Diet — Medical experts always encourages healthy diet. There should always be a proper balance that fulfills all your diet requirements. Proper diet intake guarantees an attractive and healthy body.Prefer eating fruits, vegetables and drink water in large quantity. Moreover, always look to have house made food items. Avoid oily, high-fats and junk food items. These high calorie food items are the main source of a lot of diseases and overall reduction in health. They should always be avoided at best.3. Regular Exercises — Laziness is one the most disastrous thing. People should try to become active by participating in different activities. Exercise is the best way to kill you laziness. Besides going to gym for work-out, you can also look for doing brisk walk or a little bit of jogging even. This helps in reducing any heart diseases, blood pressure, joint disorders and diabetes.4. Sleeping Well — A good and timely sleep is highly desirable for enhancing our health and fitness. Even a little shortage in your sleeping hours can make you tense, unhappy and lazy. All these things contribute in dipping your health.Six-to-eight hours of daily sleep is highly recommended. According to each individuals capacity, this duration may vary. People on average sleeping scale are mostly very energetic and happy compared to those having less sleep.5. Impact of Lifestyle on Health and Fitness — People who live long almost always have a healthy lifestyle. Balanced diet, less tension and regular work-out are the key attributes of healthy lifestyle.6. Periodic Check-ups — Diseases can become fatal and incurable once they are diagnosed late. So to ensure good health without any threat to it, periodic check-ups are highly recommended.7. Quit Smoking — Smoking is the root cause of various harmful diseases especially cancer. It should always be avoided to have a good health and respiratory system.Lastly one should always remember that staying fit is the key to live a long life.

Founder Of Your Property Empire Ranjan Bhattacharya

Ranjan Bhattacharya is a full-time property investor and developer. He has been in the property investment business since 1990. He has 17 years of extensive experience of development residential and commercial properties in London and is author of best selling books that include, “Build Your Property” and “Home Study Courses”.Ranjan Bhattacharya is the founder of YourPropertyEmpire. With this website, he shares his unique approach of property investment with others. He has made profits in every phase of market cycle; even in early 1990 when investment markets were not so favorable.As his website quote, it is “Only for serious property investor in the UK”. The main features of his websites are his “Home Study Courses” and his “One Day property Entrepreneurship Course”.Home Study CourseHis home study course includes the Proven UK property Investment System, which has step-by-step analysis of property investment system in UK. According to Rajan, a successful property investor must understand the Property Market Cycle, then must be able to detect changing phases of this cycle and third thing is that different investment strategies must be adopted with changing market conditions.Hundreds of renowned personalities from the property investment market have benefited from Ranjan’s proven Property Investment system by attending his “one day property entrepreneurship course.”He has packaged his proven Property Investment System into one ultimate Home Study Course called as “Build Your Property Empire: Now is the Time”. As it is described, it is a UK property Investment Seminar in a box. This book has 13 sessions, which clearly explains the entire step-by-step proven property Investment system. This manual gives you all the information you need about property investment including the fundamentals of property investment, his well explained property market system. This book also explains how to do research, ways of finding property below market value, deals & ways to deal with them and many more things.This book also gives you extensive information about property taxes, then value addition and forcing of capital appreciation through refurbishment. Managing a portfolio is very important for any property investor, this books gives you strategies to manage your portfolio. Along with this book you will get “Manage Your Property Empire”, Deal Analyser Software Tool and Lifetime subscription of the “Your property Empire newsletter” absolutely free. This course material also has 90 days money back guarantee.One day property entrepreneurship course is very informative course for any property investor. In this course, investors can learn about many practical property investment strategies. All these strategies discussed in course are supported with real life case studies. Many such seminars will charge more than 3000 pounds for their seminars and they run over several days. This “One day property entrepreneurship” course will be for only one day and that too with very reasonable fees.Other than this “One day property entrepreneurship course” and books, his website also has Mentor programs and free resources for property investors. Visit his site to learn more and to help with your own success. Bookmark it, too, and return often for updates.

The Best Budget Decorating Blogs for All Your Interior Needs

Whether you’re in the market for a major interior overhaul or you’re simply looking to give your home a quick and easy update, chances are you’ve spent some time online hunting for ideas and inspiration. That said, it can be pretty deflating to stumble upon a look you love only to discover the price to achieve it is well above your budget.

Fortunately, there are some killer home decorating blogs that show you how to refresh, revive, and fall in love with your home anew without breaking the bank. For a home that looks far more expensive than it costs to create, check out the following blogs for all of the interior inspiration and DIY tutorials you’ll ever need.

Quartz Countertops and Grout – One Room Challenge Week 5

Welcome back to the week 5 update for the One Room Challenge. Check out the blog posts and updates for week 1, week 2, week 3, and week 4 if you missed them. It’s crunch time now and I’ll be honest… I don’t know that this project will be completely wrapped up for the reveal date. The great thing is the reveal and hitting a deadline is not the only goal of reason for this challenge. Ultimately having a fully functional and hopefully beautiful bathroom is where we want to end up even it things are a bit delayed.

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When we left off last time the countertops had been templated, the trim was freshly painted and the hardware had been ordered. The hardware took about 1 week to arrive. We chose the Menlo Park 4″ pull from Schlub in chrome because I think the pull has the perfect mix of square and some rounded elements that make it a great transitional hardware option. We went with all pulls for the drawers and doors since the knob option in that line weren’t our favorite.

Guest Bathroom Reno: Quartz Countertops and Grout – One Room Challenge Week 5

The quartz countertops are now installed and things can be put back together. Rectangle, undercount sinks were also purchased through the fabricator. The Marble look quartz from Pental and it is gorgeous with the warm gray veins running throughout. For the edge went for a flat polish eased edge for a clean, simple look.

Guest Bathroom Reno: Quartz Countertops and Grout – One Room Challenge Week 5

Two days after the quartz countertops were installed the tile installer came back to finish up tiling the niches, installing the tile base and grout everything.

Guest Bathroom Reno: Quartz Countertops and Grout – One Room Challenge Week 5

The electoral is being relocated for the new lights. There are some drywall and painting touch ups to do and plumbing fixtures to be hooked up. Plus adding all the finishing touches ???? All those little things like towel hooks, curtain rod, and accessories will bring this whole thing together.

Townhome Remodel Phase 1

It’s been too long since I’ve updated and even longer since this work has been started. This is me sharing remodel updates, mostly for myself (but also for my nagging family members). I’m sharing photos of the progress that has been made while also document the craziness that has gone on. This is just the beginning of the remodel.

Prior to moving in I had 3-4 weeks where my apartment lease overlapped with the possession of my townhome. This allowed me, with the amazing help of my family, to paint, tear-out carpet and somewhat put back together the upstairs portion of my place so that I could have a clean room to put a bed. At least one that wasn’t completely torn apart. One area that felt more livable that the rest. If you haven’t seen or don’t remember these are the before photos from when I took possession. To list it out here are the main things that I was tacking during those week prior to me moving in.

Phase 1 Remodel Projects
ripping out baseboard, carpet and tack strips upstairs and preparing for new hard surface flooring. (this flooring will go throughout minus the stairs and bathrooms/laundry)
installing flooring upstairs (one of my installers did this)
mostly gutting the master bathroom
installing a new tub and rough in plumbing for the master and powder bath
ordering and installing a rift white oak vanity for the master
Painting (and priming where needed) the ceilings and walls of the bedrooms. Caulking and painting the crown molding in the master
replacing and upgrading the baseboard heater in the master and patch the drywall
painting the hallway and down through the stairwell
adding skirt board to the stairs
installing new carpet and pad on the stairs (my carpet installer from work did this)
removing upper cabinets on the fridge side in the kitchen
partially demoing the wall diving the kitchen (prepare to move switches, outlets, heater and thermostat)
removing drywall on wall next to bar in dining area
painting the downstairs powder bath and removing vanity to prepare for a new floating vanity
Those were the main projects that took place and then I moved in the day after Thanksgiving. Getting rid of the original, nasty cat carpet and new flooring made a huge difference to the upstairs. Also neutralizing and lightening the paint made things feel so much more fresh. I still have no baseboards but I’ll get on that one day! For now here are some photos that I snapped along the way.

I bought a townhouse: The before

It’s been a while since been posting on here but I have some new updates and projects that I have been working on. Last summer into fall I was house hunting while knowing the lease on my apartment would be expiring end of the 2019. It felt a little crazy but was a fun process for me. After a bunch of searching I found and closed on a new home!

I was lucky enough to have a few weeks of overlap with my apartment (I ended up moving out 1 month early) so I was able to get started on projects and updates prior to moving in. I’ll share more about those in the coming weeks (there are still so many unfinished things!) but for now I think it’s best to start with some before photos. Also, follow along on Instagram where I post current project updates more often. The pictures show it in the state I bought it in. It’s a great first place to me and was functional as-is but as you might expect I’m here to make things my own by doing updates that I will enjoy while living here and that will also add value and functionality to the space down the line when I sell… or maybe even keep it as a rental. My dog, Nova, has been enjoying the space as well ???? There are a couple of things to miss about my Bothell apartment but I am very ready to have my own place and space.

Guest Bathroom Remodel Sources

In 2017 the guest bathroom was remodeled. You can see more photos and read about that here. Almost everything came out and all new things went back in. From emails and comments people have been asking for sources so I have rounded up what I could in this post to share paint colors, products and links that I could find for the bathroom.

Bathroom Sources and Details:
Wall color: BM Balboa Mist
Trim and door color: BM Chantilly Lace
Floor Tile: Pental Mark Chrome 12×24 matte
Shower tile: Jeffrey Court Weather Gray 4×12 gloss subway
Niche tile: Daltile clio mosaic
Bathtub: Maax Rubix tub
Cabinet: Spencer Cabinets – painted BM Cape May Cobblestone
Countertop: Pental Quartz Misterio polished 3cm
Cabinet hardware: Schaub Menlo Park Pull in chrome
Faucets: Hansgrohe Metris single handle in chrome
Shower trims: Kohler slide bar kit, wall mount supply and Hansgrohe tub spout in chrome
Mirrors: Homegoods
Towel Hooks: Delta Tolva robe hook in chrome