Do you believe you know enough about health and wellness to make a significant impact on your weight, energy level, performance, and overall level of wellness? You definitely do. You may not know everything you need to know, but surely know enough to do better than you currently are. There are certainly things that you…
1. List I reviewed this week… If there’s one thing that we ALL want, it is to BE HAPPY. Sonja Lyubomirsky has a great book, The How of Happiness, which lists and explains twelve proven actions and strategies you can use to increase your happiness. I’d recommend implementing one, two, or maybe three of them.…
We have learned so much about sickness and disease. We not only know how each organ, tissue, and cell functions, but we know how all it works together. We understand how food gets broken down into proteins, carbohydrates, and fats, how they all get absorbed into the bloodstream, and how the body utilizes those nutrients…
1. Book I am reading right now… Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor (from 161-180) and a Stoic philosopher. He wrote Meditations, which is a series of personal notes and reflections that he wrote for himself in an effort to continue to improve. It wasn’t written to be published. He wrote it in Greek, so…
We are the most confused species on the planet when it comes to health and wellness. Part of the problem is that we get one PhD saying one thing and another PhD saying the exact opposite. Both present compelling arguments and data to support their position, but the average person is left bewildered and frustrated.…
1. Something I re-read this week… We change the articles and postings we hang on our office bulletin boards every week. This week, one of the rooms had the Paradoxical Commandments of Leadership, which I will post below (It’s SO good!). A patient, after reading it, asked me if I had heard the song Anyway,…
If you attempt something and fail, are you a failure? If you attempt something several times or even hundreds of times, and fail, are you a failure? You might say yes to both. Many might say yes to both. We tend to define ourselves as failures quite quickly when we don’t get the result or…
1. Documentary we watched this week… There is a new documentary called Shark Whisperer (on Netflix) that we watched this week. “Marine conservationist and social media activist Ocean Ramsey fearlessly swims with sharks in this documentary about her risky mission to protect them.” The footage is stunning, beautiful, and unbelievable. Ocean Ramsey is obsessed with…
Most people, when stepping back and really looking at their life, are at least a little bit disappointed. You don’t feel that disappointment day to day because we are wired to make things seem better than they actually are. Like tuning out a loud, continuous beeping noise, your brain works very hard to limit continuous…
1. A reminder I had this week… I was fishing this past week in northern Ontario, deep in the middle of nowhere. I found myself relying on a map quite a bit. This reminded me how important a map is when it comes to getting where you want to go or getting what you want…