Diet Success: The Mysterious Ingredient

As I was perusing the aisles of my local Barnes & Noble bookstore at lunch a new book caught my eye. It’s called The Hot Diet, by chemical engineer AJ Djo. I picked it up and started reading. Page after page it drew me in with one simple premise… something in almost everyone’s diet was [...]

Deliberate Actions: The Five Second Solution

Could there actually be a difference between doing an action for one second versus five seconds? Could this tiny time period make any difference in your life? If you practice weight training this could be the secret weapon you are looking for. This small difference can turbocharge your results. Here is how it works… When [...]

Deliberate Actions: Simple Diet For Success

I ran into a post a few days ago by one of my favorite writers and adventurers, Tim Ferriss, that really opened my eyes to diet success. In the post Tim explains that he created a meal plan that limited his diet choices to a dozen items. He created similar meals over and over in [...]

Create Your Own Healthy Beverages

In our modern world we are surrounded with an amazing array of beverage choices. From soft drinks, sports drinks and the ever ubiquitous Starbucks latte, we have a huge menu to choose from. The problem is, if you look at the content labels you’ll find a lot of stuff you really don’t want in a [...]

Tuning Your Caffeine Intake: Part Two

Caffeine can perk you up, help you be more creative, and perk up your attitude. But if you get too much you can lose focus, become jittery and inattentive. Here are some strategies for dealing with this very popular substance. (Part one of this article can be found here) Strategy One: Eliminate caffeine completely. Caffeine [...]

Tuning Your Caffeine Intake: Part One

I love coffee. The wonderful aroma of a delicious Columbian brew first thing in the morning is like magic. I take a few sips of this wonderful concoction and I’m starting to wake up. Soon the day doesn’t seem so dreary and those negative thoughts seem to drift away. Within a cup or two the [...]