Happy Easter weekend!

I hope you’re having an eggs-ceptionally eggs-cellent weekend with your family, and perhaps enjoying an ear-resistable eggs-presso right now.

Okay, enough with the yokes…

This week’s Top 6 includes tips on boosting immune function, embracing discomfort, naturally treating itchy bug bites, reaching age 100, regaining (or maintaining) a positive perspective, and communicating more effectively. I hope you enjoy!

Tip I – Get Cold!

A 2015 study showed that ending a hot shower with 30-90 seconds of cold water resulted in a 29% reduction in sickness (2015 Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam).

I don’t know about you, but I despise being cold. But I despite being sick even more, so I’m going to give this tip a try this week, especially since so much sickness has been going around down here in Corpus Christi!

Tip II – Get Old!

I recently subscribed to longevity expert Dr. Peter Attia’s newsletter, and he shared this motivating mental exercise to help people practically plan how they’ll live to 100:

“Begin by thinking through and identifying a set of activities you would like to be able to do at age 100. Here are a few examples:

Picking up a child from the ground (bonus points: from a crib)

Lifting your luggage and placing it in an overhead bin on an airplane

Carrying your groceries up four flights of stairs.

Getting up off the ground, from your back, with the support of only one hand.”

Tip III – Get Uncomfortable!

I love this quote from one of my favorite family-focused ministries, Courageous Parenting:
“What’s best is rarely what’s comfortable, and choices based on comfort usually lead to greater challenges.”

Tip IV – Get Comfortable!

The bugs are back in Texas, and so too are the swarms of mosquitoes and these tiny black gnat-like things that love to go for the scalp and ears! Using my brand-new doTERRA oils (I’m not a salesperson for doTERRA, just a new convert!), I recently whipped up a rollerball bottle blend that’s worked liked a charm to take the itch and inflammation out of our bites!

Combine 5 drops peppermint oil, 3 drops lavender oil, 1 trop tea tree oil with 1 tablespoon of sweet almond oil or other carrier oil (I used coconut oil) in a glass rollerball bottle. Shake well before use.

Tip V – Get Perspective!

I finished Anne of Green Gables this week (I started Anne of Avonlea last night) and fell instantly in love with its final words:

“God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world.”

Though it may sound airy-fairy and, in light of the hardships and uncertainty humanity has faced since the Fall, not exactly accurate, it IS true. All’s right with the world because God is on His throne, overseeing and orchestrating and patiently waiting for as many people as possible to repent of their sins and believe in Christ as their Savior and Lord.

“The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.” – 2 Peter 3:9, NLT

Everything is unfolding just as He’s promised, and just as His servants have prophesied through the ages. All’s right with the world because it’s quickly degenerating, making way for Christ’s return and the commencement of His pure, unending Kingdom.

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
²And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” – Revelation 20:1-2, KJV

Tip VI: Get Talking

I’ve been a long subscriber to James Clear’s weekly 3-2-1 newsletter, and recently he shared a wise tip regarding the timing of replying:

“It is generally better to over-communicate. If you wait to reply because you don’t have an answer yet (or because you don’t want to share bad news), the other party often ends up making assumptions about what the delayed reply might mean.

“Silence frustrates and confuses people. Better to communicate early and often.”

I hope you learned/were inspired by a thing or two! I’ll be on vacation with my family next week, but I’ll be back the week after, Lord willing!

Have a blessed rest of your Resurrection weekend!

Thank you, as always, for your support of my writing!

Diana Anderson-Tyler

Novelist, Blogger, and Caffeinator

Actionable Tips on Boosting Immunity, Embracing Discomfort, Living to 100, and More!

Tip I – Get Cold!

Tip II – Get Old!

Tip III – Get Uncomfortable!

I love this quote from one of my favorite family-focused ministries, Courageous Parenting:
“What’s best is rarely what’s comfortable, and choices based on comfort usually lead to greater challenges.”

Tip IV – Get Comfortable!

Tip V – Get Perspective!

“The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.” – 2 Peter 3:9, NLT

Everything is unfolding just as He’s promised, and just as His servants have prophesied through the ages. All’s right with the world because it’s quickly degenerating, making way for Christ’s return and the commencement of His pure, unending Kingdom.

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
²And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” – Revelation 20:1-2, KJV

Tip VI: Get Talking

Diana Anderson-Tyler

Novelist, Blogger, and Caffeinator

Tip I – Get Cold!

Tip II – Get Old!

Tip III – Get Uncomfortable!

I love this quote from one of my favorite family-focused ministries, Courageous Parenting: “What’s best is rarely what’s comfortable, and choices based on comfort usually lead to greater challenges.”

Tip IV – Get Comfortable!

Tip V – Get Perspective!

“The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.” – 2 Peter 3:9, NLT

Everything is unfolding just as He’s promised, and just as His servants have prophesied through the ages. All’s right with the world because it’s quickly degenerating, making way for Christ’s return and the commencement of His pure, unending Kingdom.

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” – Revelation 20:1-2, KJV

Tip VI: Get Talking

I love this quote from one of my favorite family-focused ministries, Courageous Parenting:
“What’s best is rarely what’s comfortable, and choices based on comfort usually lead to greater challenges.”

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
²And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” – Revelation 20:1-2, KJV