"If you do not design your own life plan, chances are you will fall into someone else's plan.
And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
" By: Jim Rohn: Author and Motivational Speaker It was food shopping night last night.
It was that night where the wife rounds me and the kid up and drags us along to do what I think has to be one of the most boring things possible.
The thought of walking up and down the isle for an hour looking and comparing just makes me think or sheer boredom.
But then again I do not like to shop much for anything unless it involves a Best Buy, Home Depot or Lowes.
But that's me.
However it is one of the necessary things in life you have to do, otherwise there would never be any food in the house, kind of like the days of being a bachelor.
Days my wife has told me she'd rather not experience.
Many of you know what I am talking about.
Images of an empty fridge with a lone bottle of ketchup on the center shelf just took you back to your good ole days or maybe it is your "current" days.
You get the point.
Shopping did give me an idea though.
All of these products to choose from but more importantly the trash that gets created when they are empty made me realize of the affects it would have on the environment.
The hot topic besides gasoline right now is going green and helping the environment.
So I did some research and found a couple of pretty fascinating things you can do to help and you really do not have to make any life altering decisions.
According to the Real Simple website they recommend you should "Skip red meat once per week".
Now if you do not eat red meat then you are ahead of the game.
They claim, "Meat production - especially in mass-produced beef - is extremely resource-intensive.
It can take seven or more pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef, and livestock consumes 70 percent of America's grain.
Eat less of it and choose pasture-fed, sustainable raised beef whenever you can.
If you alone gave it up once every seven days, you would save the 840 gallons of fresh water it takes to produce a single serving.
" I never thought about it in those terms, however I am beginning to make an adjustment to only eat red meat no more than once per week.
I already have one of these in my home but if you do not, get a programmable thermostat installed.
Real Simple says, "It will automatically adjust the heat or the air-conditioning to match your daily patterns.
You won't waste energy while your home is empty, and you won't have to remember to turn the thermostat up or down.
Want to do better? Turn it down two degrees in the winter and up two degrees in the summer and you'll keep nearly 880 pounds of carbon dioxide from warming the earth.
" Wow! Now that is some advice we can all use to help better this planet.
So there you have two tips that came to mind to help better our planet.
See I told you they would not be earth shattering, life altering changes.
By: M.
Podlesny