Tag: health

• December 23, 2014

  The health benefits of drinking coffee

  

  I drink coffee.  It helps me wake, it helps me focus.  It helps me write. I love the smell.  (I don’t think I have ever had a coffee that tasted quite as good the smell.)  Coffee smells good. On a good day, I’ll have 3.  On a tough day, where my concentration is not good,…
• February 6, 2014

  Feed your brain: 10 Foods that Build Your Brain Strength

  

  Are you a healthy eater? This is a guest post by Julie Zimmer.  I asked her to share her wisdom on health by telling us some good foods to eat when we need our brain to be at its resilient, productive best.  Do you eat these 10 foods?  (BONUS: at the bottom of the post……
• March 14, 2013

  Resilience: Coping with Setbacks

  

  Time after time I see promising young athletes reach the professional teams, and they don’t make it.  Time and time again I see someone do well in the good times, but then allow one small setback to avalanche into a total personal, business and financial collapse. Other times someone struggles through the youth ranks, shows…
• November 12, 2012

  Overwhelmed or Overloaded?

  I hate the feeling of being overwhelmed.  It tends to hit me about 2 or 3 in the morning.  I wake and can’t fall back to sleep.  I go through the motions of little bits of meditation, of focusing on breathing…  but all for nothing.  I am not going back to sleep.  My inner battle…