The Adventures of Bloggard

Been Around the Block. Got Some Stories. These are Them.

An Unusual, Strange Way to Live Longer: Caffeine, Nicotine, Creatine

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As kids, we’ve all been told that coffee would stunt our growth, and you’ve noticed it can give you the jitters. We’ve learned that cigarettes are bad, bad, bad for you (and they are). And we’ve seen creatine being promoted and sold for muscle-building in bodybuilder and men’s health magazines.

But come to find out:

  1. Caffeine in coffee–if the coffee is mold-free, which most coffee IS NOT–actually extends lifespan in well-tested studies.
  2. Nicotine, if it is pharmaceutical grade–and NOT cigarettes, which contain 200-300 other ingredients designed to increase addiction and worse–has been shown in well-constructed studies to extend lifespan. What? !!! Yup. Go figure.
  3. Creatine–in studies done decades before the body-builders got hold of it–has been well-proven to protect your brain!

So the truth is that, done right, microdosing caffeine, nicotine, and creatine makes you live longer! That’s what the science says. I’ve attached a fast overview researching each of these and the studies are identified. You can download it below.

And when you try it … you will feel it! 🙂

Here are the brands and doses that I am using:

  • Mold free coffee: Lifeboost, or Danger brands. Regularly tested and contain no mold. I do one cup per day.
  • Nicotine: Sefudun quit smoking nicotine patches “step 3” (weakest dose, 7mg) cut into 8 pieces for daily use. Stick it on your skin, and cover with a strip of bandage tape. It’s time release.
  • Creatine: most any brand. I got Now brand creatine monohydrate. Dose is 1-1.5 level teaspoons, which is 3-5 grams.

I was dubious when I ran across this information, but it checks out. I’ve made a quick-read summary of what the studies say, complete with the citations, as a pdf document you can save if you wish. You try this unexpected approach, and you will like it!

CLICK to download the Caffeine- Nicotine, and Creatine ReportCLICK BUTTON to download a concise research pdf
detailing longevity & health benefits of these three:
“Longevity benefits of Caffeine, Nicotine, and Creatine”

How to Write a Book — Quick and Easy.

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June 7, 2023, Mount Shasta, CA: Here’s how to write a book. Done this way, it’s rather easy. And surprisingly quick.

This method took me 40 years to figure out, and it works. My proof is that I’ve published 9 books, written over 500 microstories, 50-60 short stories, 3 novels, and hundreds of thousands of pages of operating manuals, business plans, how-to articles, advertising copy and lots, lots more.

This method makes writing a book fairly effortless. (Each of my nine published books was actually created in only about a week, but these [Read more…]

How to Destroy Writer’s Block

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June 7, 2023, Mount Shasta, CA: If you experience writer’s block, it’s very easy to change that so that you no longer experience writer’s block. Here’s how …

Get up in the morning, go pee if you have to, then sit down and start typing. Don’t do *anything else* before you start typing.

Type anything. Garbage, memories, nonsense. Snippets of your dreams. Any thoughts. Don’t try to channel it in any particular direction.

Within 3 weeks or maybe even less, you will no longer experience writer’s block.

That’s really all there is to it.

What Goals Make You Happiest?

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Mt. Shasta, California, June 15, 2022: When I was 26 or so, I figured out a handy truth …

a) Havingness goals, once met, most often satisfy for a few days or a few weeks.
b) Beingness goals may bring benefits, but if you try to dwell in satisfaction, then you’re no longer in that beingness, so you usually spend little time experiencing the satisfaction of attaining a beingness.
c) Doingness goals can satisfy as long as you’re doing the thing you intended to do.
For example, years ago in Dallas, one particular day, I found myself uncomfortable and ill at ease. And after a few days of pondering realized that I’d accomplished the goal for which I had gone to Dallas, and that I needed a new goal–because humans function well when seeking a goal.
And so I chose “creating music” because that is a doingness goal, and you can never reach the end of creating music.
It worked.

How to Network Effectively

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If you’re in business, or even if you’re not, networking is usually a part of getting along well, learning new things, meeting new people. And there are some tricks to it. This article contains (almost) everything I’ve learned from a lot of study and decades of practice. For anything from “picking up chicks” to “establishing new business contacts” these simple techniques will make you twice as effective, and it will be fun as well …

I found this article on Medium (a wonderful place to find fascinating articles). The article is by Michael Thompson. In turn, he’s reporting on a fascinating new book. Here’s what he says …

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Creating Your Reality

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Today I was online reading something, and I was *so* tempted to respond in argument with something that someone said.

Even knowing better, I find it hard to stop myself, all too often.

And my particular reason for desiring to restrain myself is this —

A) We greatly create our own experience of life (our reality) by the thoughts we harbor in our heads. Some say these thoughts actually create reality, but for certain they create our experience of life.

B) If you create ill-will thoughts, no matter where you intend to aim them, you are creating ill-will thoughts. And it’s in YOUR head.

C) You suffer as a result of the painful thoughts in your head, and it paints your picture of your universe, and you create your painful experience of life.

D) The more you focus thought on negative stuff (problems and pain), the more you overlook (or miss) many of your opportunities, and you miss out on enjoying the bliss you could be enjoying from your life.

E) So it boils down to — It’s your gun. It’s your foot. Do What Thou Wilt.

Want to live in a world of devils? Or a world of bliss? Although it may seem strange the first time you hear this, with a bit of practice, it is actually possible to control your own mind, and your thoughts WILL create your happiness (or suffering) in this life.

(A word to the wise is sufficient. Let he that hath ears hear!)

🙂

Are You a Pirate?

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In one of the last scenes in the fun movie, “Pirates of the Caribbean,” the heroine makes a statement about the leading man. She says, lovingly, “He’s a pirate.”

As you may recall from the movie, that young man started out hating the pirates, and yet, in the course of his adventures, he’s become bolder and he has dared great things, and by golly he has become a pirate. And that’s a good thing.

And so … why is it a good thing to be a pirate?

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Writing and Marketing

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Medford Oregon, January 23, 2016:  Two writer friends and I had coffee yesterday, because they wanted to talk about marketing their books. One of them has published a couple of books but his last one has not sold much yet. The other fellow is still working on his book. Both books are novels.

I confessed that although I’ve written several books and have published them in one way or another, I’m no big expert on this subject.

However, as the get-together unfolded, between my marketing experiences and their ideas we actually did put together a couple of plans that seem very likely to be effective.

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy

Today, I got an email from one of them, and in his email he said:

“All very interesting, and I want to know more, but my purist streak pulls me back to the Dark Side, to wit: Why don’t I just learn how to write a Story that makes a reader want to burn through it before lunch because I have made this huge promise and they are hungry for their payoff?”

As I began to respond to his question, it reawakened something I learned many years ago from my client Jerry Richardson, the author of “Powers of Persuasion,” which became a national best-seller, about how we humans leave out parts of sentences. I have found it very useful over the years. Perhaps you will find interesting this response to my writer friend —

Hi,

To answer your question —

You asked: “Why don’t I just learn how to write a Story that makes a reader want to burn through it before lunch because I have made this huge promise and they are hungry for their payoff?”

Errors of Omission

Your answer is inside your question. All English-speakers engage in a practice that linguists would call “omission” or “deletion.” We delete parts of the sentence because they are “understood.” An example: [Read more…]

 
 

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