Dane Findley

Can Having a Weekly Cheat Day Help You Eat Better and Lose Fat?

Dane Findley — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:30:58 +0000

Some nutritional experts believe that allowing yourself a cheat day once-a-week — when you can eat anything your heart desires — might actually help you to stick to your diet and ignite your weight loss. Personally, I’m not a fan of “dieting.” I believe in permanent lifestyle upgrades instead. There are some menu items that I will not allow myself to eat, no matter how tasty they might appear. Inflammatory foods — which for me include foods with processed grains and refined sugars — make me puffy and tired and as soon as I’m done eating them, I regret [...]

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What is Your Brain Style at Work?

Dane Findley — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:54:10 +0000

Understanding the unique way that you process information can help you to optimize your own productivity and communication and give you leverage in your career: ◕ learn to see yourself within a culture of brain diversity — accept the idea that each of us sees the world through a different lens ◕ our willingness to be introspective is essential if we are to leverage our personal brain styles and yield our fullest potentials ◕ learn in what specific ways your own brain style is different than those around you ◕ instead of getting frustrated that [...]

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How to Establish Priorities and Stay Focused on What Matters

Dane Findley — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:47:24 +0000

When picking up our dry-cleaning is on equal footing with helping our children with their homework, something is amiss with our priorities. We all have our priorities, and some things obviously take precedence over others. But in an age of increasing abstraction, we can become so overwhelmed that we lose sight of things. Essentially, we go into information overload and everything is put on a level playing field — filed away under the catch-all category of “tasks.” Priorities in the Age of Information Overload We are part of a global civilization which is becoming exponentially more complex. [...]

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How to Avoid the 3 Assassins to Your Personal Productivity

Dane Findley — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:49:45 +0000

You’ve heard the phrase, “know your enemy?” Learn to recognize 3 productivity-killers before they get you! It’s hard to enjoy your work or your chores if you always feel like you’re behind. This is the primary reason that people decide to become better organized, to create more inner peace and serenity. If you sometimes feel overwhelmed — or find yourself wishing that you could clone yourself or magically add more hours to each day in order to get more done and improve your productivity — then there are three “assassins” that you must remain [...]

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How to Get Unstuck

Dane Findley — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:13:36 +0000

Each of us feels stuck, from time to time. This feeling — of being stuck — is a peculiar mood. It’s not depression; it’s not really anxiety;. it’s something of a mild malaise. It’s a gray, nagging sense that the most isn’t being made of life — that potential lies fallow, that the brain has switched to auto-pilot. Let’s face it: modern life can be draining. Yes, we manage enough emotional energy to get out of bed in the morning (usually), but sometimes we can’t seem to generate enough energy to move into high gear — to be brilliant and [...]

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4 Stretches to Help Keep Your Lower Back Healthy

Seth Perry — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:44:52 +0000

Over the years as a professional fitness trainer, I have discovered helpful solutions to relieve back pain and to help heal and align the spine. A few years ago, my wife Amy and I went to Mammoth Lakes for a weekend getaway. The highlight of our trip was a breathtaking five-mile hike up into the forested mountains. The elevation gain was almost 2000 feet! We felt pretty beat by the end but we got a great workout. Two days later my back was so sore I could barely bend over to pick a pen up from the floor. I have [...]

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How Much Iodine Should I Take?

Jim Harris — Sat, 04 May 2013 15:12:47 +0000

Iodine is one of the most misunderstood, and most deficient, of all nutrients. Here’s the best way to get the iodine your body needs. Iodine is found in each cell in your body and without it life is not possible. David Browstein M.D. explains in his book Iodine: Why You Need It, Why You Can’t Live Without It that of all the elements known so far to be essential for human health, iodine is the most misunderstood and the most feared. Yet iodine is the safest of all the essential trace elements — [...]

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That Moment When the Doctor Tells You to Change Your Habits, or Else…

Dane Findley — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:25:47 +0000

Sometimes, another person will give us advice but we can’t really “hear” it with our whole being. Our intellect may understand the advice, but the rest of our psyche needs more time and life-experience before we can fully appreciate it. This is what medical doctors, nutritionists, therapists and naturopaths have to contend with in their daily work: ◕ how much do they reveal to their patients? ◕ is the patient ready to hear it, or will hearing it only increase their resistance? To thrive in our daily lives, we need air, water, food, shelter and love. After those 5 fundamental [...]

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How to Age Successfully

Dane Findley — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:47:09 +0000

Imagine yourself waking up in the morning 20 years from now. How will your body and mind feel in that moment? Will your future self be robust, joyful, and passionate? The Numinous Journey Does the 20-years-from-now version of you bound out of bed each morning with enthusiasm and abundant energy? Here’s the deal. We live in an era of technology and information. Anybody can Google anything, anytime. So with all of this information at our fingertips, why aren’t we all Olympic-caliber athletes and billionaires who live past age 100? It’s certainly possible to do all of these things. [...]

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Why Are Relationships Important?

Dane Findley — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:48:07 +0000

New research indicates that paying closer attention to the relationships in your life is a social experiment the reaps big dividends. Marianne Williamson once famously stated, “when you get the serious about The Universe, The Universe gets serious about you.” Perhaps one of the most effective ways to show The Universe that you’re serious about this thing called life, is by spending a little extra time and energy on relationships. The ultimate social experiment is to try to examine one’s own relationships with fresh eyes. It sounds easy, but, in reality, cultivating new relationships — and deepening [...]

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