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Sharon Chen
Stephanie is the fiancée of my husband’s brother, Felix, who resides in Jacksonville, Florida. During the time spent in Jacksonville, I got a chance to get to know this sweet couple better. To my surprise, the more I knew about them, the more it broke my heart.
Stephanie was born with a heart problem. She was in the hospital four times in only two months. Each time, her doctor had to shock her in order for her heartbeat to get back to normal. I asked her if she was doing anything special before her heart started beating irregularly. She said she was just in the closet looking for clothes. At that moment, I realized how serious the situation was—we could lose her at any time.
On March 24, 2015, Stephanie had her second ablation. (She had her first one in 12th grade.) This time, they also implanted a pacemaker into her body.
Prior to all the craziness, Stephanie showed me a photo of her and Felix taken a few years before she was put on her current heart medication and treatment. She looked a lot slimmer in the photo. She complained about how fast and how much weight she has gained due to the medication. The sad part is that she can’t really do normal exercises. She’s scared of going to the gym or doing anything that might increase her heartbeat because no one knows when her heart will go crazy again.
That’s when I started thinking that maybe the best way for someone like Stephanie to lose weight is through detoxifying and changing what she eats every day. That's how "Seven-Day Super Smoothie Cleanse Action Plan" was born.
Stephanie was born with a heart problem. She was in the hospital four times in only two months. Each time, her doctor had to shock her in order for her heartbeat to get back to normal. I asked her if she was doing anything special before her heart started beating irregularly. She said she was just in the closet looking for clothes. At that moment, I realized how serious the situation was—we could lose her at any time.
On March 24, 2015, Stephanie had her second ablation. (She had her first one in 12th grade.) This time, they also implanted a pacemaker into her body.
Prior to all the craziness, Stephanie showed me a photo of her and Felix taken a few years before she was put on her current heart medication and treatment. She looked a lot slimmer in the photo. She complained about how fast and how much weight she has gained due to the medication. The sad part is that she can’t really do normal exercises. She’s scared of going to the gym or doing anything that might increase her heartbeat because no one knows when her heart will go crazy again.
That’s when I started thinking that maybe the best way for someone like Stephanie to lose weight is through detoxifying and changing what she eats every day. That's how "Seven-Day Super Smoothie Cleanse Action Plan" was born.
Sharon Chen
I am currently working on a recipe book specifically for people who own or plan to own a Tatung Rice Cooker (originally from Taiwan), which can not only cook rice but cook loads of other savory meals.
Sharon Chen
If "anyone can cook", anyone can write too!
Build up your writing muscle by writing EVERY SINGLE DAY at a certain time for an hour, or 30 minutes or even 15 minutes if you are busy. Just remember to write. You will have a book sooner than you think.
Build up your writing muscle by writing EVERY SINGLE DAY at a certain time for an hour, or 30 minutes or even 15 minutes if you are busy. Just remember to write. You will have a book sooner than you think.
Sharon Chen
Being a writer, your words and your stories get a chance to be discovered by the people all around the world. They might help or inspire a complete stranger, whom you will probably never meet, but he/she certainly knows who you are.
How cool is that?
How cool is that?
Sharon Chen
Writer's block can be easily avoided if you do some mind mapping and outlining by using index cards or post-it notes before writing your book. Mind mapping is basically to create your chapters. Outlining is to come up with what you are going to talk about in each chapter. These two steps are by far the most important practices to writing a book.
You don't need to write any sentence at this stage. Just write key words or phrases on each index cards. Write anything that you can think of that's related to your topic. Then move the index cards around, combine the repeated ones, discard the ones that seem to be too far from your topic. Soon, you will discover that you have already created your book chapters and subchapters.
When you write, you just pick one index card, take a look at the keywords on the card, then start writing that point. Don't worry about the flow between each subchapter or chapter yet. You will get there.
With the above practice, writer's block doesn't really happen to me anymore. :)
You don't need to write any sentence at this stage. Just write key words or phrases on each index cards. Write anything that you can think of that's related to your topic. Then move the index cards around, combine the repeated ones, discard the ones that seem to be too far from your topic. Soon, you will discover that you have already created your book chapters and subchapters.
When you write, you just pick one index card, take a look at the keywords on the card, then start writing that point. Don't worry about the flow between each subchapter or chapter yet. You will get there.
With the above practice, writer's block doesn't really happen to me anymore. :)
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