{"id":13310,"date":"2024-09-26T11:18:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T15:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=13310"},"modified":"2024-09-23T19:27:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T23:27:39","slug":"september-tip-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=13310","title":{"rendered":"September Tip of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img data-opt-id=1835508403  fetchpriority=\"high\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13311 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dominoes-w-hand-stopping-progress.jpg?resize=300%2C120&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Chain Reaction In Dominoes but a Hand stops it\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dominoes-w-hand-stopping-progress-scaled.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dominoes-w-hand-stopping-progress-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dominoes-w-hand-stopping-progress-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:1536\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dominoes-w-hand-stopping-progress-scaled.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:3750\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dominoes-w-hand-stopping-progress-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:1470\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dominoes-w-hand-stopping-progress-scaled.jpg 1470w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:3482\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dominoes-w-hand-stopping-progress-scaled.jpg 2205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u201cWatch your thoughts, they become your words; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>watch your words, they become your actions; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>watch your actions, they become your habits; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>watch your habits, they become your character; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>watch your character, it becomes your destiny. \u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>~ Lao Tsu<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWatch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[494],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dominoes-w-hand-stopping-progress-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1023&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Qv5g-3sG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2634,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2634","url_meta":{"origin":13310,"position":0},"title":"Legislating Food Compliance","author":"Will Clower","date":"January 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's the question:Should we look at legislating junk food advertisments aimed at kids?I understand regulation of cigarette ads to children, because nicotene is addictive and tobacco is lethal ... a terrible combination that mystifies anyone who asks, \"and WHY is a lethal addictive carcinogen on the market at all?\"But having\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?cat=494"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7751,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=7751","url_meta":{"origin":13310,"position":1},"title":"Biometric Numbers: Short vs Long Term","author":"Will Clower","date":"September 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"When you get your biometric numbers, if there are values that show you have to improve your health status, there are a couple of ways to take action, based on what you find. 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