Mind Create an image board. Google images of people who inspire you – athletes, business people, the Dalai Lama, some historical figure…people who have qualities you aspire to. I find 8 – 10 images that motivate me, print them out in small sizes, and tape them to a single 8 X 11 inch piece of paper. I look at this each day as part of my morning routine (see Spirit below). Drink less alcohol. You might think this would be under nutrition (it could actually be under any of

Having – and executing upon – a long-term vision is one of the most difficult things humans can do. Our brains are simply not wired for seeing long into the future and taking steps daily to get from here to there. Adding to the fact that our brains were built to deal with short-term crises (think escaping a lion or hunting for that day’s food), modern day society barrages us with so many ‘get results quickly with no efforts!’ messages that it is a wonder people still achiev

Putting politics aside, the Trump administration is putting forth a new concept (employed since early in the campaign, just recently codified) in the form of alternative facts. Don’t like what the truth presents? Just make up your own facts and hope that if you state them enough times - and with adequate enthusiasm if not sincerity - then some portion of society will latch onto these non-fact facts as truth. That is ‘fine’ if you are a politician trying to fulfill some campai

One early morning a few years back, I was booting my computer. I had stopped by Starbucks on the way to work to get my iced grande mocha, the same drink I had been consuming two to three times daily since I first walked into a Chicago Starbucks in the mid-1990s (unlike our last topic, changing up your workouts, some things don’t require mixing up). Since I was still partially asleep, I didn’t notice the top was only half on when the contents of the cup spilled all over my des