Health & fitness
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Monday, June 8th, 2009It’s no secret I’m madly passionate about entrepreneurship, marketing and the health and fitness world. Which is why I’m psyched to share an article I’ve been working on for some time over at my CareerRenegade.com blog, called, “Marketing From The Heartbeat Out.”
Here’s how it starts…
One of the biggest mistakes I see entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes make is treating product development, marketing and sales as three independent pursuits.
Truth is, they are all hopelessly intertwined parts of the same process. And, without fail, the more innovative energy you give to the first, the less time, money and energy you have to spend on the last two.
Broken, But Not De-Feeted
Friday, April 17th, 2009
You’ve gotta be #@$#!% kidding me!
This was the thought scrolling through my head as I heard the bones in my right foot snap last Thursday.
Yes, if you’ve been in my little blogging family for a while, you already know that in February ‘08, while running along my favorite trail, I wiped out in some mud, rolled my ankle and fractured a biggish bone in my left foot.
Outlie This: Breaking Research Reveals Talent Gene?
Monday, March 30th, 2009
In his critically acclaimed book, Outliers: The Story of Success
What really makes people world class great, said the data, was not some genetic anomaly, talent or gift, but rather the accumulation of 10,000 hours (approximately 10 years) of intensive, deliberate, focused practice.
But, new research into the genetics of learning may have just obliterated that claim.
Too Tired To Succeed?
Friday, November 28th, 2008
I’m too tired, achey, burnt, frazzled, blah, blah, blah…
Life speeds by and half the time we feel lucky to just catch a glimpse, let alone jump in and play. We work insane hours, endure unyielding pressure, strive for inhuman goals and lumber around increasingly fatigued, stressed, in pain, frazzled and just plain old burnt. We barely have enough juice to get through each day.
The reality is, we’re caught in a bit of a vicious cycle.
10 university studies that never should have been funded
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Don’t get me wrong, I am a total research whore hound.
I’ve got Google Alerts on Google Alerts for studies that keep me in the know on everything from yoga to entrepreneurship to music.
But, not too infrequently, I come across an abstract of a study that leaves me scratching my head, wondering, “dude, did you seriously have to spend a bazillion friggin dollars to prove what is already patently obvious to a 3-year old?”
Now, of course, I could just keep all these ridiculously self-evident studies to myself, but where’s the fun in that? So, without further ado, here is my list of…
Terminator donut fuels massive weight loss
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
It began as a joke, inspired by the movie Terminator…
But, now, it seems a team of researchers at the University of Auckland’s Laboratory for Biomedical Interdigitation have blown the lid off of the weight loss world, creating a high-tech donut, capable of producing up to 40 pounds of weight loss over a 30-day period.
Terminator donut literally re-forms in stomach…
The genesis of the idea for the terminator donut was a late-night brainstorming session among lead investigators, Professor Robert England and two Ph.D. candidates, Emily Schoenberg and Peter Filsaime. “The night before,” Filsaime revealed, “we were sitting around watching the second Terminator movie and marveling at the borg’s ability to literally reconstitute itself after being blown apart.”
How I burn 600 calories a day blogging
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
I tried to fight it for so long.
I’d schedule exercise for 4pm every day. When the warm weather was around, it was pretty easy. By 4pm, I’d be itching to get out into the afternoon sun. Okay, I’d miss days, but it was still a lot easier.
But, then winter came…
And, while I do yoga, limitations caused by multiple surgeries don’t allow it to deliver the cardiovascular workout and calorie-burn I need to stay healthy. Plus, with more and more of my career requiring me to write for extensive periods of time, my level of “sedentary-ness” skyrocketed. But, that all ended a few weeks ago, when I set up my…
Horrifying 12-day Cool Whip experiment
Monday, February 25th, 2008
It all started as a simple way to demonstrate to my daughter the difference between real-food and fake food. But, man-oh-man, did this thing go horribly wrong!
As the son of a mad-baker, I had a lot off whipped-cream growing up. But, not the kind you get from a can or a plastic tub. Mom used to whip it up fresh from heavy cream, vanilla and sugar. Okay, so we know that’s not the best thing for your body these day…but wait’ll you see this!
The Great 12-day Cool Whip experiment…documented in photos!
Top 5 ways to double your energy without caffeine [Lifehack.org column]
Friday, January 18th, 2008
My weekly column on lifestyles at Lifehack.org is up. Here’s how it starts…
It’s one of the most common complaints on the planet and it comes in many forms:
- “I just sat down, you get up.”
- “I’m too tired, too achey, too frazzled.”
- “Can’t a person have 5-minutes to just chill out?”
- “I’m burned out.”
- “I’m feeling a little… run-down, weak, lazy”
While there may be other contributing factors…
Lack of energy plays a pretty major role in all these excuses.