By: Dr. Beth Templin

​I've already shared with you why I place a water bottle with lemon in my bathroom and why I lay out my exercise clothes each night before I go to bed. This is one tactic to help me be more successful. I prepare the environment to make it more likely I will achieve the desired outcome. 

By: Dr. Beth Templin

In my last post, I talked about using your environment to help you make good choices and form good habits. You can also flip this idea around and set up your environment to keep you from partaking in certain bad habits. 

By: Dr. Beth Templin

I’ve already shared with you the positive impact setting out a water bottle in my bathroom nightly has made on my ability to achieve my goal of drinking enough water every day. Now, I’m going to share with you why I also take the time to set out my workout clothes, shoes and headphones each night in my bathroom.

By: Dr. Beth Templin

This week I want to share with you why I place a water bottle in my bathroom every night before I go to bed. Like many other people, I struggle with drinking enough water every day. The average person should drink half of their body weight in water. For example, if you weigh 200 pounds, you should be drinking around 100 ounces of water a day. For someone like me who is closer to 120 pounds, I should still be drinking 60 ounces a day.

By: Dr. Beth Templin

I think like most people, I want my life to be purposeful, to be meaningful. I want to make a positive impact on the world around me. I want to do something I love every day. Something that I’m passionate about. Something that drives me to be a better person.

By: Dr. Beth Templin

As mentioned in my previous post, my lifelong dream of becoming a nurse soon changed. Even as I realized that nursing was not the profession for me, I couldn’t imagine being a college drop-out. That wasn’t me. That wasn’t my identity. I was a straight A student who loved to learn. 

By: Dr. Beth Templin

I can remember all the way back to a project I did in Kindergarten about “what you want to be when you grow up”. I’m sure many of us had a similar assignment at some point in our younger years. We had to draw a picture of what we wanted to be and say why we made that choice. I, of course, wanted to be a nurse just like my mom. 

By: Dr. Beth Templin
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I’ve mentioned previously the importance of being a self-advocate. It’s something I strive to teach and instill in the people I work with every day. Let’s take a closer look at the definition to have a better understanding of the term.

Self-Advocacy noun the action of representing oneself or one's views or interests.

By: Dr. Beth Templin

In my last post, I discussed how ageism is prevalent in our day to day lives. It is ingrained in our daily thoughts, decisions and actions. We often times don’t even realize we are having ageist thoughts, but they are always there. I even find myself having some of those negative thoughts about aging from time to time, but I’m able to recognize them 

By: Dr. Beth Templin

​This picture says it all. This is what many people believe aging looks like. They believe it means losing your independence and sleeping your day away in a wheelchair. They believe it means becoming a burden to your loved ones, living out each day with nothing to look forward to. They believe it means moving into a nursing home and spending