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Getting Your Crazy On

Just a reminder:

It’s okay to get a little crazy sometimes. Shoot for an extreme and if you’re self-aware you’ll catch the hints your body gives you to change.
The trick is to listen well enough that you catch problems and can adjust before you’ve pushed too far and need to quit.
Thursdays are typically my “Is this [...]

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Five Reasons To Start Your Day Early

Becoming an early riser isn’t about trading sleep for productivity. It’s about taking back a part of your life by trading tired evening hours for productive and wakeful mornings.
You probably can’t tell your boss that you’ve decided not to work between 9-11am because you need productive time for yourself and personal projects. You’d be laughed [...]

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What Do You See When You Look In A Mirror?

I see man boobs.
Much of what you’ll find in the self-help section at your local bookstore points to “self acceptance” or “self love” as the ticket to living a happier life. We are told to look in a mirror and say, “I love what I see.”
I’m not sure that’s such a good idea. The mirror [...]

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How To Set Yourself Up For Success

I could never call myself a yo-yo dieter because that would imply that I lost weight as a result of dieting. I didn’t. I was a victim to my own expectations.
I expected myself to fail and, true to form, I always failed.
Then I began to look at the mechanics of my many failures and, over [...]

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