Your mind controls everything.  Nothing happens, your body doesn’t do a thing, unless your mind instructs it to.

Think about picking up a pencil, tying your shoe, lifting weights, lighting a cigarette, blinking an eye, driving a car, taking a step, eating an apple.  All of the conscious actions humans do cannot happen without direction from the brain, which then fires off remarkably complex instructions through your central nervous system to activate a diverse group of muscles and organs.

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Some times you just never know how the decisions you make will impact your future and the future of others.  If I hadn’t decided to call my boss that day in December 2001 and tell her that I wanted to take the early buyout the company was offering (though not offering to me since, as the senior guy in the office, I was supposed to be the last one standing to turn out the lights), and then further decide that I was never going to work for anyone again, I might not be writing this blog today.

When I started focusing on what was really important, and not what was supposedly ‘required’, life got a whole lot better.  Sometimes you just gotta roll the dice.  Watch this video of Steve Jobs at the 2005 Stanford commencement.

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Can you lose weight while still eating junk food all the time? Sure.

Can I help you do that? Nope, don’t know how.

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Trying to lose weight got you down Sparky?

Are you feeling that trying to live a healthy lifestyle is just too hard? Thinking maybe you can’t do it? Well, if you think you can’t, you’ll be right about that.

But you know what? You can.

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Just heard from a friend that someone we knew died in his sleep last night.

I knew Gary from high school, and while I had seen him a few times over the years, I wasn’t real close friends with him.  But Bill, who told me about it, has been very good friends with him for over 20 years, hanging out with him a few times per month every month for those 20 years.  I can’t begin to imagine how he feels now.  He said he’s stunned.

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Can Jamie Oliver change the world? I hope so, and we all need to help him do it.

Jamie is the first TED Prize Winner of 2010, and this is his “One Wish to Change the World”: Read the rest here—>

A lot of people think you have to do “cardio” to lose weight, and by “cardio” they usually mean riding the bike, walking or jogging on the treadmill, or using an elliptical machine. And, a lot of people find that mind-numbingly boring. And by “a lot of people” I mean at least I do.

Cardio is just a generic term applied to any sort of exercise that places a demand on your cardiorespiratory system (your heart and lungs). Sure, the ones listed above do that, but so do plenty of other things. Things you might like to do more than the bike, treadmill, or elliptical.

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