Your Task: 1. Read the list… 2. Implement… 3. Watch yourself get better! How to get better at Fitness (in no particular order): 1. Gear up. Get Oly shoes, some inov-8s or nano’s, a speed rope, wrist wraps, and quality workout clothes. 2. Lift heavy weights regularly. Don’t just stay in comfortable 70% zones. Push your limit… which leads perfectly to #3… 3. Use a […]
Do you agree with Mr. Powell? Personally, I agree and disagree. He’s got it right with the latter part of his quote: success requires preparation, hard work, and learning from failure, but he’s wrong about there being no secrets to success. There are secrets. More on that in a bit. This makes me think of […]
50 ways to Lose weight intelligently without the use of drugs or unhealthy protocols. Please share this one with anyone that you know will benefit! Let’s keep fighting the good fight… Here is a snazzy click-to-tweet link. This essay is about losing weight but it also doubles as a guide on how to live a healthy lifestyle. Overall, […]
“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” –Rose Kennedy Each moment is a milestone of your life: it is the furthest moment you have ever lived. Did you feel that? That was the sound your mind being blown. (Haha.) No, but really, life is a series of moments strung together. I want you to […]
This essay was originally featured in my free Sunday newsletter. Preface: The following piece does not come from a place of judgement—I am as much a perpetrator as the next guy. It is meant as an observation of humans (and myself) living in modern society. In fact, writing this is as much a reminder for myself as […]
We all want to build more muscle. And for good reason: Muscle is the most metabolically-active tissue in one’s body. It feeds on the stored calories in your body fat. Want to build your body into a machine that gobbles up calories all day long? Build more muscle. Muscle also protects us, makes us more functional, and makes us more attractive to […]
“The object of knowing is constantly changing. Feeling, tasting, sensational experiment, etc., are dogmas and not true knowledge as they can be wrong. Objects of perception, therefore, are ruled out of true knowledge.” -Bruce Lee Lately I’ve been talking with friends and family about their personal goals. A common thing I hear from them is they don’t […]
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” ― Joseph Brodsky “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.” ― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any […]
“Remember that thought is the fire that creates the steam that turns the wheel of fortune, upon which your experiences depend.” –Haanel, Charles F. – The Master Key System There’s a thing we all do every day. Some do it better than others, more controlled and directed. Others do it randomly and haphazardly. This thing […]
“Attention or concentration is probably; the most important essential in the development of mind culture. The possibilities of attention when properly directed are so startling that they would hardly appear credible to the uninitiated. The cultivation of attention is the distinguishing characteristic of every successful man or woman, and is the very highest personal accomplishment […]
“In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.” ― Kristian Kan I often tell people, “I’m living in my own reality and everyone else is a guest.” Egotistical or honest? Maybe both? Meh… who cares? In my reality, I don’t, nor should anyone care about […]
This essay was originally featured in my free Sunday newsletter. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” -Aristotle Comfort is warm and cozy, and sure, we all want to be comfortable in our lives as often as we can. But is it possible to be too comfortable? Is a comfortable […]
This essay was originally featured in my free Sunday newsletter. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ―Oscar Wilde There was once a research survey done of nursing home residents around the country. A question on that survey was, “What is your greatest regret?” One answer that kept coming up went something like this: I wish I […]
This essay was originally featured in my free Sunday newsletter. “Practical exercise is even more important for the student of philosophy than for the student of medicine or any similar art, just as philosophy claims to be a greater and more difficult discipline than any other study. The reason for this is that men who enter the […]
This essay was originally featured in my free Sunday newsletter. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” -Confucius There is this concept known as Neophiliac, which is a personality type in which a person has a strong affinity for novelty. I think that we all are, at least in our Western culture, a bit […]