Arianna Huffington made an excellent case for getting more sleep in her recent TED Talk. We live in a time where sleep deprivation is seen as a symbol of male virility, a badge of leadership and proof that you are a person of worth. According to a 2008 CDC study, 29% of US adults report …
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A New Way of Thinking
"A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors." ~ Dalai Lama Much of the work we do at my company is to broaden the typical …
A Converging World
The last two hundred years were particularly transformative for humanity. Dramatic increases in both longevity and wealth swept across the globe, affecting the industrialized nations first and the developing nations second. While a wide gap remains between the richest and the poorest nations, just about every nation is better off no than they were two …
The Man in the Arena
"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who …
How to Put an End to our Nation’s Health Crisis
The other day someone mentioned to me that America's health crisis could be largely resolved if people would avoid everything in the middle of the grocery store and only buy items currently on the outer walls. I had to think about the statement for a moment, but once the picture of the last grocery store …
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The Art of Manliness: The Secret of Great Men
If you are a guy who wishes he were more of a gentleman, I would highly encourage you to visit The Art of Manliness, an uncommonly rich online resource that aims to "reviv[e] the lost art of manliness." I have found it to be tremendously useful in my pursuit of ongoing refinement and I must …
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The Powerhouse of the Cell
I love to hear the head of my Practitioner Support team (the group in my company responsible for technical marketing and education) speak about health and wellbeing. Her passionate interest in restoring normal flow to the body's various systems fascinates me - and our clients - to no end. Restoring optimal cellular function …
Seeing is believing.
Vision is a powerful sense. Whether the capacity for vision is the product of thousands of years of evolutionary development or the result of an original design modified over time by the aforementioned invisible hand, vision is a marvelously powerful tool. While roughly 0.3% of the American public is legally blind, I have heard it said …
You needn’t see it to believe it.
I had an unusual conversation yesterday that I feel is worthy of further consideration. A new acquaintance, whom I have not met in person, asked me where I thought the world was headed. What a whopper of a question! She qualified her question with a mention of the Mayan Calendar, which as I understand it …
Healthy Parts, Healthy Whole
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. ~ Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover's response to the Great Depression- a fiscally conservative approach that relied more on a call to confidence and …
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