Runner’s World Performance Nutrition for Runners: How to Fuel Your Body for Stronger Workouts, Faster Recovery, and Your Best Race Times Ever
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Publication Date: December 27, 2005
Runners have different nutrition and recovery needs than other endurance athletes. Yet until now, they’ve had no nutritional resource specifically addressing their concerns.This comprehensive guide distills the newest thinking in the science of exercise nutrition into practical, hands-on tips that will help runners stay healthy, recover faster, enjoy better workouts, and race successfully. Readers will learn:
• detailed information on nutritional topics important to runners, from balancing internal energy stores to proper hydration
• how to customize their diets to their individual training needs
• shopping tips and dining-out strategies to help runners maximize their nutritional intake
• the top 5 pre-race meals and top 5 healthiest snacks for runners
• nutritional tips for special populations, including women, children, diabetics, and older runners
Unrestricted freedom can be as mentally and physically debilitating as no freedom at all.
Human beings require some measure of constraint for proper balance and health; whether provided by parents, a spouse, an employer, local laws or a limited bank account.
Appreciate that you have limitations on your time and behavior, because the alternative would ruin most of us…
Every nutritient, substance or chemical within the food that we consume works for or against our health.
What we consume and what we don’t consume, will and does, make a difference to our past, present and future health.
More plant based food should be consumed and FAR less animal products, as well as processed products, should be consumed.
Nutrition is complex… so eat more plant based food and leave the complexity of necessary nutrients to your body’s physiology to figure out from the inside.
The Atkin’s Diet (essentially low-consumption of carbohydrates and over-consumption of fats and proteins) that Dr Atkins promoted through books and various other products spanning many years, didn’t seem to work for him at all. At the time of Dr Atkin’s death in 2003, not only was he obese at 260lbs, he was also suffering from heart disease and high blood pressure. However, what did work very well for him and his family was his unscrupulous efforts in getting rich…
“The Atkin’s diet” would be better named “The Make Yourself Sick and Fatter Diet”
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Gratefulness and appreciation require consistent effort, the more we exercise them internally and express them outwardly, the stronger and more natural they’ll become; gratitude is certainly a muscle that needs strengthening within most of us…
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We should all have a hard time with the words “belief” and“believe“… both words by definition state that we hold a strong idea, proposition or premise to be true without actual proof of our position! Therefore, we should minimize the word “belief” and “believe” as frequenlty as possible in our thoughts and vocabulary… instead, choosing to favor critical thinking, due diligence, thoughtfulness and investigation.
Currently Reading: The Paradox of Choice, Why More is Less
Book Description
Publication Date: January 18, 2005
In the spirit of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. This paperback includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features, suggested readings, and more.
Whether we’re buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions–both big and small–have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented.
We assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression.
In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice–the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish–becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice–from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs–has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse.
By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counterintuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on the important ones and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.
There are many mistaken notions concerning lactic acid and exercise. The greatest, by far, is the idea that there is lactic acid in the human body – there is no lactic acid in the human body – NONE!
Most people believe “lactic acid” is an end product of exercising hard and that it causes local muscle fatigue and muscle failure (a burning sensation by increasing the acidity of the tissues to the point where they can no longer function effectively).
What we are feeling are pain (nerve) receptors sensing a chemical breakdown of energy production that is reaching its physiological limit – not lactic acid.
I find it interesting that so called “professionals or experts” still bandy this term around…
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Over 2,000 years ago Plato wrote that “it is as important to exercise the body as it is to exercise the mind, in order to preserve an equal and healthy balance between them.”
Make Exercise a Pleasurable HabitThe Athlete’s Way presents a practical, motivational fitness program by an ultra-endurance athlete that incorporates brain science, positive psychology and behaviorism to transform lives from the inside out. It is the antidote to the imbalances created by living a sedentary, inactive existence. Christopher Bergland, the son of a neurosurgeon, has created a program that uses neurobiology and behavioral models to help improve life through exercise.
The Athlete’s Way program, focusing on cardio, strength, stretching, nutrition and sleep, uses neurobiology and behavioral models to enable you to think, train and behave like an athlete, making you more optimistic, resilient, and intense. You will want to get a glow on every day to increase your daily bliss quotient. Exercise will no longer be something to dread but something to enjoy and experience to the fullest.
The Athlete’s Way teaches you how to make exercise a source of joy and something you will want to engage in daily. Sweat will become a symbol of your striving for a standard of excellence and a solid work ethic that is synonymous with peak performance. The stamina, tenacity, and drive fortified through athletics–and this program–can be applied to any dream, obstacle, or goal you aspire to achieve. Christopher Bergland is a Manhattan-based world-class endurance athlete. He holds a Guinness World Record for treadmill running (153.76 miles in 24 hours) and has won the longest nonstop triathlon in the world three times. He completed The Triple Ironman, a 7.2-mile swim, 336-mile bike, followed by a 78.6-mile run (done consecutively) in a record breaking time of 38 hours and 46 minutes. He directs the triathlon program at Chelsea Piers and has been sponsored by Kiehl’s since 1996. He has been featured in dozens of TV, magazine, and newspaper articles including CNN, PBS, ABC, CBS, Fox, Men’s Journal, ESPN magazine, and the L.A. Times. He currently manages a specialty sporting goods shop in New York City called “JackRabbit Sports.” Inspiring Lessons from a World-class Endurance Athlete“I love to sweat. All told, I have run distance equal to four trips around the world on a treadmill and on the streets of Manhattan where I live. I have biked to the moon and back, dueling it out with a red, blinking pacer light on a LifeCycle control panel or logging countless laps in Central Park. I’ve even crossed the Atlantic a few times – in the pool – and I’ve swum in almost every ocean around the world competing in Ironman triathlons. When I am running, biking, or swimming, happiness pours out of me. I am not alone. Everyone who exercises regularly experiences this bliss. And it is available to you, too, anytime you break a sweat. The Athlete’s Way is an individual process but ultimately a universal experience. We feel good when we sweat. I have learned how to find Nirvana on the treadmill, and I am going to teach you my secrets.”
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The majority of diet books, on the market in recent years, all center around staying away from carbohydrates while eating as much protein and fat as we desire; the most popular of these books is the Atkins Diet. This dieting paradigm is misguided, unhealthy and simply wrong for long-term human health.
Research clearly shows that the vast majority of end-users of this type of diet lose weight initially (mostly through water loss and calorie restriction that can’t be sustained) only to gain more weight through increased body-fat and muscle loss within one calendar year of starting this dieting approach.
In addition, myriad cancers, heart disease and strokes… to constipation, depression and low energy are all problematic with this nutritional precept.
The stigma to avoid all carbohydrate consumption is sustained by those who choose to eat non-fat to high-fat processed carbohydrates instead of whole vegetables, whole fruits, whole grains and legumes (beans and lentils). Indeed, consumption of processed junk food carbohydrates frequently does lead to weight gain, but blaming the good carbohydrates for weight gain, when they aren’t even being consumed in the amounts necessary for longterm good health, while physical activity is nearly dormant, is foolhardy and short-sighted indeed.
I’m absolutely convinced of the transforming power of physical exertion – it can change our lives. But the strength to change our lives is most powerful when married to intellectual exertion as well. Progressive strength and endurance training, when coupled with intellectual training is the most we can ask of ourselves.
The majority of us are perpetually looking for something other than, who and where, we’re currently; this state of mind is nothing more than a permanent distraction. We need to think deeply about why we’re seeking what we’re seeking and make sure that it’s worth our mental time and physical effort. Endlessly buying new things just for the novelty of it and simply experiencing random physical stimulation without much forethought, does not lead to longterm self-improvement or happiness.
Creating and safeguarding, consistent and adequate sleeping habits, is one of the most important personal habits we can follow to maintain mental stability and physical health; it’s as important as sound nutrition and even more important than physical activity.
In this wise, humane inquiry, Csikszentmihalyi ( Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience ) argues that genetically programmed behaviors that once helped humans adapt and multiply now threaten our survival. These traits include obsessions with food and sex, addiction to pleasure, excessive rationality and a tendency to focus on the negative. A University of Chicago psychology professor, the author also believes we must free our minds of cultural illusions such as ethnocentric superiority or identification with one’s possessions. He urges readers to find ways to reduce the oppression, exploitation and inequality that are woven into the fabric of society. Further, he wants us to control the direction of human evolution by pursuing challenging activities that lead to greater complexity while opposting chaos and conformity.
It’s entirely possible for any one of us, with great and sustained effort, to build a personal self that’s well beyond automatic biological impulses, inherited cultural mores and blind religious habits; rather, apersonal self that’s built upon conscious design.
The link below provides the best sunscreens to use while the rest are exposed for being inferior products and a waste of money.
Hint: If your sun protection product is sprayed on your body – it’s simply inferior to a cream or lotion.
“The majority of sunscreens currently on the market are full of questionable ingredients and known carcinogens. Simply looking at the ingredients you’ll quickly realize you don’t recognize any of them. Many existing sunscreens have been brought to market with little concern for their safety and boast inflated SPF numbers.”
The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less
How do you define the good life? For many, success is measured not by health and happiness but by financial wealth. But such a worldview overlooks the important things in life: personal contentment, family time, spirituality, and the health of the planet and those living on it. A preoccupation with money and possessions is not only unhealthy, it can also drain the true joy from life.
In recent years, millions have watched their American Dreams go up in smoke. The international financial collapse, inflation, massive layoffs, and burgeoning consumer debt have left people in dire financial straits—including John Robbins, a crusader for planet-friendly food and lifestyle choices, who lost his entire savings in an investment scam. But Robbins soon realized that there was an upside to our collective financial downturn: Curtailed consumerism could lead us to reassess our lives and values.
The dietary fiber that we consume, and frequently too little of, is exclusively found in plant-based food and it’s typically undigestable; although it can be added to low-quality processed foods to give the appearance of healthfulness. Fiber comes in countless variations within the cell-walls of plants (and the fruits and vegetables it may bear). Dietary fiber should not be consumed through man-made purchased supplements rather through whole foods designed by nature. Human engineering can’t rival the quality or the complexity of fiber found in it’s most natural state or it’s perfect delivery system. Moreover, whole foods (vegetables, fruit and grains) containing dietary fiber include numerous components that work to keep us healthy and their fiber content creates a sense of fullness that comes on us quicker and lasts longer compared to processed foods. Lastly, fiber works to clean the digestive system as it winds its way through the process, as well as absorbs unwanted products found within our digestive system as it speeds the process of digestion along.
Health and fitness isn’t about immortality, we’re going to die regardless of our individual approach to life. What’s preferred here is to enjoy all the time we’re afforded with a high level of vigor and a fully functioning body and mind. Avoiding long, drawn out diseases, involuntary pain and suffering and crippling incapacity is the objective here. There are better ways to live… as well as better ways to die.
The majority of personal trainers have a credibility hurdle to contend with; they dont know enough, they don’t care enough and they’re not fit enough. Credibility, simply isn’t a matter of contention here.
We have human cells that are straying from their proper course of duplication everyday; during standard cell reproduction and normal turnover of body tissues. Our body’s immune system is tasked with the job of finding these errant cells that are mutating and destroying them before they destroy us. Well executed research has demonstrated repeatedly that cancer development is modified by how much animal protein we consume in our diets. Animal proteins consumed at less than 5% of our daily intake shuts down cancer, while animal protein consumed above 5% invigorates cancer; the higher the animal proteins consumed above 5% the greater the cancer rates (animal proteins are defined by cows, chicken, turkey, fish, pigs, lamb, dairy, eggs, et cetera.). The majority of Americans consume much higher rates of protein than the 5% maximum recommended and the cancer rates in America reflect that dietary choice.
Isolated nutrients (such a vitamins, minerals and antioxidants) taken as supplements to our existing diet or artificially added to a product found on a store shelf where it’s then called fortified, is simply a misunderstood concept and grossly inadequate for good health. For instance, vitamin C, is only one single compound of hundreds of compounds found within a single fruit or vegetable. Consuming more of it, when there’s no dietary deficiency (which is normally the case for all of us) without the other compounds, is misguided and unsafe. Vitamins, minerals and antioxidants consumed singularly, in large doses typically found in many store bought supplements, have proven to actually increase disease in carefully performed research on humans; so much so, the studies were halted early because cancer rates were increasing significantly in the participants – not decreasing as desired!
Case in Point:
The majority of our bodies are made of water (65-70% of our bodies); drink normally and things function as they should. But, supplement your normal drinking habits with excess water and you end up in the hospital with Hyponatremia (a metabolic condition in which there is not enough sodium in the body fluids outside the cells because of over-hydration).
If something is good for you, then more must be better… is simply poor thinking.
From the creators of the groundbreaking documentary FOOD MATTERS comes another hard-hitting film certain to rock your world.
HUNGRY FOR CHANGE exposes shocking secrets the diet, weightloss and food industry don’t want you to know about. Deceptive strategies designed to keep you craving more and more.
Could the foods we are eating actually be keeping us stuck in the diet trap?
In this free online premiere event you’ll discover:
How to navigate your supermarket – what to buy and what to avoid
The real truth behind “DIET”, “SUGAR-FREE” and “FAT-FREE” products
How to overcome food addictions and cravings
Why fad diets dont work
What food additives to avoid and how to read labels
What is fat and cellulite and how do we get rid of it for good
The most effective detox and cleansing strategies, and
How to eat for clear eyes, glowing skin and healthy hair
Find out what’s keeping you from having the body and health you deserve and how to escape the diet trap forever.
Featuring interviews with best selling health authors and leading medical experts plus real life transformational stories from those who know what it’s like to be sick and overweight.
Learn from those who have been there before and continue your health journey today.
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The average American lifespan is currently in decline; decades of increased well-being through good sanitation and eradication/control of external diseases is no longer enough. It’s not stress, poor genetics, accidents or toxic environmental factors that are causing this longevity reversal… it’s simply the food we choose to eat.
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported in a past article that physician error, medication error and adverse effects from drug and/or surgery kills over 225,000 Americans every year; over 100,000 of these American deaths were from unintended consequences of a drug that was provided at an accurate and normal dosage.
Remember, physicians and the medical establishment may save our lives in an emergency situation, we are lucky to have them, but relying on them for disease prevention and sound health is foolish and not their responsibility. The road to good health begins in prevention and the majority of physicians know nothing about it…
Human Beings are weak by design; we’re encapsulated in soft-tissue that damages easily and we require special care just to survive. We last only days without adequate hydration and only a matter of minutes without adequate oxygen. Military trainers in the Special Forces spend countless man-hours hardening their troops mentally and physically, yet, their troops can be broken in a matter of hours when there’s heavy losses involved in their unit. Human beings are considered strong, and maybe even durable, but only when compared to one another.
Know your limitations and respect your needs… perhaps then, you’ll do better than just survive, you may even thrive.
Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal’s wildly popular course “The Science of Willpower,” The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the new science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity.Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters. For example, readers will learn:
Willpower is a mind-body response, not a virtue. It is a biological function that can be improved through mindfulness, exercise, nutrition, and sleep.
Willpower is not an unlimited resource. Too much self-control can actually be bad for your health.
Temptation and stress hijack the brain’s systems of self-control, but the brain can be trained for greater willpower
Guilt and shame over your setbacks lead to giving in again, but self-forgiveness and self-compassion boost self-control.
Giving up control is sometimes the only way to gain self-control.
Willpower failures are contagious–you can catch the desire to overspend or overeat from your friends–but you can also catch self-control from the right role models.
In the groundbreaking tradition of Getting Things Done, The Willpower Instinct combines life-changing prescriptive advice and complementary exercises to help readers with goals ranging from losing weight to more patient parenting, less procrastination, better health, and greater productivity at work.
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Mature, responsible, intelligent adults want and work toward self-control, the rest simply want more adult distractions… no different than a child wanting more toys and candy.
In the United States, nearly 50% of all men and 40% of all women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes, while roughly 40% of the population will prematurely die from heart disease. Well done, unbiased, viable research by respected scientists, states that 98% of these cancer and heart disease cases would be avoided by diet and exercise alone, only 1-2% of these disease cases mentioned were genetically driven and unavoidable.
The more animal protein (i.e. dairy, poultry, red meat, eggs and seafood) that we consume… the higher our risk factors for chronic disease. We should be eating vegetables, fruit and whole grains while consuming animal proteins only occassionally. The amount of animal protein that we consume runs parallel to our disease risk factors. In other words, the more animal protein we consume, the higher our risk factors, while the more we minimize their consumption, the lower our risk factors. Myriad cancers, heart disease and strokes are directly related to animal consumption. No longer should our meals be anchored by animal protein as the centerpiece and not every meal should have animal protein as an ingredient. Lastly, supplementing our diet with a protein supplement (for weightloss or weight gain) is grossly unnecessary, entirely misunderstood and unwise.
Everyone has an opinion on health, fitness and nutrition… but very few people know what they’re talking about with any depth based on known facts. And, although there’s an enormous amount of constructive research and information currently available to the public, the truth literally gets buried beneath the junk science, fad diets, celebrity exercise programs, greedy capitalists who ignore the facts and a food industry that vehemently protects the financial value of their products, regardless of the ramifications on human health. Most diseases aren’t accidents, what you consume does matter to your health and there’s a right way and a wrong way to approach exercise. Fact or merely someone’s opinion? You should know the difference before you decide.
StrengthLab Thoughts: I’m personally re-visiting this book; published in 2006, this is still the most important book on nutrition and diet written to date. “In Defense of Food” written by Michael Pollan would be the next best significant book in this genre for those interested in educating themselves with factual information – not hype and not marketing.
The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health
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Referred to as the “Grand Prix of epidemiology” by The New York Times, this study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6,500 adults in more than 2,500 counties across China and Taiwan, and conclusively demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as curbing obesity, this text calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such as the Atkins diet, that are widely popular in the West. The politics of nutrition and the impact of special interest groups in the creation and dissemination of public information are also discussed.
Consumer Reports released a shocking survey in 2011 that found that just 1 out of 10 Americans admitted to eating unhealthy. There seems to be a serious disconnect between what people think is healthy and what is literally healthy for us. Plants and the things that grow from them are healthy… energy bars, supplements, diet frozen dinners, frozen yogurt, baked chips, multi-vitamins, myriad juices and roasted nuts are not. Animal protein should be no more than 5-10% of our diets (that includes red meat, seafood, poultry, eggs and dairy) and animal protein should NOT be the cornerstone of every meal. Vegetables, fruit and whole grains!
Our genetics (family history) is frequently thought to hold our personal vitality and longevity, but that’s a very simple view to a complex subject.
For example, if we happen to have a genetic propensity for cancer, heart disease or a neurological disorder, we may simply have an empty gun laying around inside our cells, but our decision making when it comes to ourhealth, nutrition and fitness habits decides if that gun gets loaded and the trigger pulled.
It’s most frequently our choice to make when it comes to our health – NOT genetics alone; we determine our fate most of the time.
Blood cholesterol is clearly an important indicator of disease risk and worth monitoring. It’s frequently suggested that exercise may help lower and control our overall cholesterol levels and it’s frequently suggested that minimizing our overall consumption of saturated fat and food containing cholesterol may help lower and control our overall cholestrol levels as well. But the real smoking gun here… is our overall protein intake from animal based products (i.e. meat, dairy, eggs, poultry and fish). As our consumption of animal protein goes up, so too does our cholesterol levels.
The solution? Eat more plant-based foods and consume no more than 5% of your diet from animal based foods.
The Warrior Ethos goes well beyound soldiers and battlefields… in other words, we all fight our own personal battles, frequently far away from open and armed conflict. We work to define why we exist and what matters to us. We struggle for our position in society and for what we believe in. We fight for our families, our friends and even against the aging process. I believe in this kind of fight and what it can make of us…
Can we live robustly until our last breath? Do we have to suffer from debilitating conditions and sickness? Is it possible to add more vibrant years to our lives? In The End of Illness, David B. Agus, MD, one of the world’s leading cancer doctors, researchers, and technology innovators, tackles these fundamental questions, challenging long-held wisdoms and dismantling misperceptions about what “health” means. With a blend of storytelling, landmark research, and provocative ideas on health, Dr. Agus presents an eye-opening picture of the human body and all of the ways it works—and fails—showing us how a new perspective on our individual health will allow each of us to achieve that often elusive but now reachable goal of a long, vigorous life.
When Dr. Agus decided to pursue a career in oncology, many of his mentors questioned his choice. Why, they asked, would a promising young doctor want to enter a field known for its inescapably grim outcomes? But it was precisely the lack of progress that inspired Dr. Agus to join the war on cancer. He moved away from the modern methods of the medical establishment, which aim to reduce our afflictions to a single point. Instead, as he does in this book, Dr. Agus argues for the adoption of a systemic view—a way of honoring our bodies as complex, whole systems. This outlook informs how we can avoid all illnesses—not just cancer. Dr. Agus empowers us to take charge of our individual health in personal, customized ways we could not have imagined before.
This indispensable book is not only a manifesto—a call for revising the way we think about health—it’s also filled with practical but impossible-to-ignore suggestions, including:
• How taking multivitamins and supplements could significantly increase our risk for cancer over time.
• Why sitting down most of the day, despite a strenuous morning workout, can be as bad as or worse than smoking.
• How sneaky sources of daily inflammation—from high heels to the common cold—can lead to a fatal heart attack, and even rob us of our sanity.
• How three inexpensive medications—aspirin, statins, and an annual flu vaccine—can substantially change the course of our health for the better.
• How taking shortcuts to health via blending fruits and vegetables, and sometimes even by purchasing what we think is “fresh,” could be shortchanging our health.
• The single most important thing we can do today to preserve our health and happiness that costs absolutely nothing.
Dr. Agus also offers insights and access to breathtaking and powerful new technologies that promise to transform medicine in our generation. In the course of offering recommendations, he emphasizes his belief that there is no “right” answer, no master guide that is “one size fits all.” Each one of us must get to know our bodies in uniquely personal ways, and he shows us exactly how to do that so that we can individually create a plan for wellness.
The End of Illness is a bold call for all of us to become our own personal health advocates, and a dramatic departure from orthodox thinking. This is a seminal work that promises to revolutionize how we live.
Success is most frequently synonyms with money, but without close interpersonal relationships, good health and a properly functioning body, as well as the ability to enjoy what we already have… we’re certainly not successful. Remember, rock stars commit suicide and millionares take prozac… it’s the little things, that we already have, that matter the most.
Being busy has become a sign of success, even a status symbol in our society… ever been asked if you’re “staying busy”?
In fact, being busy from a distance looks dam impressive and even makes us appear important to others, but its frequenlty fluff with no real substance. The look of success, without feeling successful.
Being busy makes us feel important and valuable… but are we really doing something important and valuable?
Are we spending too much time being busy… and not enough time with our families and friends?
Are we taking care of our bodies and developing our minds… or spending too much time being busy?
Are we taking the time to appreciate what we’ve already earned… or simply staying busy?
It’s most likely that we lose – more than we gain – when we are permanently busy.
Without daily thought and careful reflection in our day-to-day actions, we frequently find ourselves saying, buying, doing or accepting things that are unwelcome in our lives. Perhaps, we should slow down and consider what is most important to us and then have the strength-of-mind to actually follow through with it.
We make decisions together here based on your personal history, present physical and mental state, level of motivation, available spare time and future goals. Two minds fully engaged on the same subject, one from an objective point of view and the other from the subjective point of view, makes for shared decision making.
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s famous investigations of “optimal experience” have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to chance. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience teaches how, by ordering the information that enters our consciousness, we can discover true happiness and greatly improve the quality of our lives.
