Focusing on present choices to create beautiful physical and mental transformations
This space shares reflections on effective choices and daily decisions to help you achieve your goals in strategic and easy ways. Whether you are trying to manage your weight, juggle life and work, or carve elegant resilience, look every day for your subtle victories wherever you are in the world. Every challenge, every change, every new environment is ripe with opportunities for growth!
Embrace Resistance with Style and Run Through That Final Hill Today
There it is. The last 300 meters. You’ve been pushing it for an hour, maneuvering headwinds, skirting boggy terrain, soaring over inclines along the way. You’re tired and home is simply a few breaths away. But you must first traverse a daunting hill - a majestic slope that gives your home delightful vistas of the sparkling city below. You’re already panting and worried that neighbors may be checking you out behind their curtains.
There is a choice to be made in a matter of moments. You can be content with what you have already done, because it is certainly good enough. Will you take it as a cool down walk, or will you have seize the chance to build your endurance in a way never imagined when you first moved in?
Stretch Before Bed to Soothe and Uplift Yourself After an Overwhelming Day
A typical day for someone juggling work responsibilities and family obligations – whether kids or ill loved ones – can often feel much too much. The mountain of project deadlines, child health surprises, financial worries, job uncertainties, create a tremendous mental load. We fantasize about winning the lottery and running away from it all. Amidst the chaos and to-do lists, many can forget that their health and mental state should come first. We vent and ruminate at the end of the day about how things could have gone better – the rushing from meeting to meeting, that stressful schoolteacher discussion, that super sabotaging colleague, the missed workout, and the excessive lunch, or the no-lunch-chocolate bar-fix.
It is important to practice acceptance and to transition into a positive mental state. While 9pm may be too late to smash a workout (especially when all many exhausted people want is another glass of wine) there is one thing you can do to reset today and bring tomorrow’s great resolutions closer to reality even before your head hits the pillow.
How to Start the Day with Good Choices at Your Business Hotel Breakfast (Geneva Edition)
Candidly speaking, buffet breakfasts are a danger zone rife with many traps. If you can, opt to eat somewhere which forces you to make careful choices as each item carries a price tag. “Buffet anything” should usually be avoided, but we do have to roll with the structure of life sometimes.
The good news is that you face this situation armed with the highest level of willpower you will ever have during the day (willpower is strongest after a good night’s sleep but gradually depletes throughout the day). The great news is, when you do it right at by breakfast, it sets a wonderful tone to slice through the day with elan.
The Three ways Black Coffee Grounds a Lean Body and Sensory Mind
How do you take your daily dose of Java juice? If you are devotee of cappucinos, flat whites, caramel macchiatos, double-doubles - it may be time for a rejuvenating tweak today. (Note: these reflections would not apply to those with acidity sensitivities)
The stark truth is that liquid calories play a huge part in weight loss or gain. When it comes to coffee, our cups serve countless purposes throughout the day: alarm clock, comforting friend, boredom crutch, social lubricant, commuting companion, status symbol. Many dieters tend to focus on their meal plans and forget (perhaps accidentally on purpose) that each coffee they insouciantly sip or assertively chug can cause a 300-400 calorie dent in their daily allowance.
How Moving 20,000 Steps a Day Changes Your Body and Thoughts
It may seem radical to target this number. 20,000 steps roughly equals 15 km in distance. Prevailing headliners in many articles and health recommendations steer us towards 10,000 steps a day. It is not that 10,000 is insufficient – for many people, this is a fantastic start and everyone must work up gradually from 5,000 to 10,000, and beyond depending on fitness level.
If you’re already swimming or spinning intensely every other day or close to it, then your workout choices might be sorted. For the vast majority of office-bound professionals (software developers, lawyers, project managers, accountants, consultants, executives, and all those others typing like there’s no tomorrow), your days are spent sitting before your screens, sitting in board meetings, sitting in an airplane, sitting in the car, sitting on the train, sitting at client dinners, and finally sitting at your doctor’s office.
When you aim for and execute 20,000 consistently, many things change in your life because they simply have to.