So you want to live longer? Healthier? Happier? The first thing you should do is… Get off your butt! Stand up! Quit sitting so much! There, I said it. It sounds too simple doesn’t it? But it’s a fact - Sitting for long periods is killing you regardless of your exercise regimen. According to this study published in the [...]
This is powerful message from a woman facing terminal cancer. She tells us to remember to live right now and stop wasting time.
7 Things My 7 Year Old Learned From MMA (Mixed Martial Arts)
18 Aug
Posted by Steve as Education, Family, Freedom, Health, Leadership
If your kids are like mine, and don’t care for team sports, MMA is an excellent alternative. My son does MMA training 3 nights a week at the American School of Martial Arts in Savage MN. When he chose to take Karate, we visited several different schools, and he decided on MMA. He liked the [...]
21 Surefire Ways to Stay Motivated
09 Dec
Posted by Steve as Entrepreneurship, Freedom, Health, Leadership, Relationships, Success
Photo by Tomoyoshi Have you set a goal (like a business plan or a weight loss regimen) in a burst of energy and excitement, only to find after a few weeks the excitement fades? Your progress slows, then stops, and you regress to where you started? Unfortunately, for many of us, this has become a [...]
You spend too much time in front of a screen. We all do. Here are some things you need to know (stolen from Carrie Schmitz at the Ergotron blog). First I am going to give you the list of things you need to know followed by a list of things you can do to prevent [...]
Do you know how to avoid a stiff neck, back aches, burning eyes, and repetitive stress injuries when you spend a lot of time in front of your computer? 14 Tips for Healthy Computing: Make your workstation fit you. Since we all come in different shapes and sizes, you need to know what is the [...]
Do you ever have times when your stress level saps your health, your stamina, and your capacity to think? When you are sick, your spouse is sick, your kids are sick, you are buried in work, your co-workers are buried in work, and everyone seems to need more and more and more of you? The [...]
I am going to share something personal, with the hope that some of you who have had similar experiences will understand you are not alone. I, like many other people, have episodes of Existential Depression. Some call it psychic pain. Sometimes events trigger an episode and other times it is spontaneous. About the time I [...]
Your well-being depends upon taking positive action. If you are living a life you hate – one that exhausts your energy – one in which you feel trapped – one that creates physical pain – you must make changes. You must take action. Because if you exist in this state long enough you aren’t living, [...]
These three stories may help save your life someday and I hope they will help you make the best possible medical decisions. Gall Bladder Surgery 12 years ago at age 25, a doctor diagnosed me with gallstones and she recommended that I have my gall bladder removed. The first inaccurate thing they told me was [...]
