Been Around the Block. Got Some Stories. These are Them.
The Three Minute Gym is a simple way to exercise which fits into the schedule and workday of almost anybody.
If you’re already going to the gym every day and spending long hours on treadmills and pumping iron, then the Three Minute Gym would be a simple way to stay fit when on the road or away from your usual gymnasium. [Read more…]
‘Vegistentialism’ is a word, coined in a light-hearted manner, to describe a pleasant and economical way of eating that will allow you to live a long life, and statistically you should remain free of the diseases which kill most people in the western world.
(These killers are heart disease, cancer, stroke, and immune disorders including diabetes.)
Specifically, the simple method of ‘vegistentialism’ will give you a way of daily eating which will provide you with high energy, tasty and enjoyable meals, a feeling of lightness, and you will have radically altered the odds that you will live far longer. You will feel good.
A ‘vegistentialist’ is a person who has discovered ‘the essential truth about humans and vegetables.’ This approach answers the puzzle of: “What should we eat?”
Main Entry: human
Function: noun
: a bipedal primate mammal (Homo sapiens)
Main Entry: vegetable
Function: noun
1 : a plant
2 : a usually herbaceous plant (as the cabbage, bean, or potato) grown for an edible part that is usually eaten as part of a meal; also : such an edible part
Main Entry: ex·is·ten·tial·ism
Pronunciation: -'ten(t)-sh&-"li-z&m
Function: noun
: a 20th century philosophical movement centering on analysis of individual existence in an unfathomable universe and the plight of the individual who must assume ultimate responsibility for acts of free will without any certain knowledge of what is right or wrong or good or bad.
The food industry in the United States alone is a 17 billion dollar enterprise. So it is no surprise that the advertising streaming at you every day gives you information which has more to do with food-industry profits than with the truth about your health.
It’s not so much that there is some sort of conspiracy to lead you into illness. Rather it is the selective presentation of information and partial information. As an example, realize that rarely will a man go up to a pretty woman and say, “Hi, I’m Joe, and I’d really like to take you out, though I should tell you that I’m lousy in bed.”
Rather, he’ll ask her out and let her find out on her own, later.
And unfortunately, this very understandable bias of the food industry has led to most of us being … shall we say … let down?
The truth is simple, and using the truth to enhance your health is simple. And the truth has been available through immense scientific studies for many years. It is only because the truth had a very limited advertising budget that we’ve not heard much about it.
What works as a dietary guideline, to maximize your health and minimize death, is covered nicely in a book called The China Study
You’ll find the truth. The truth is Vegistentialism. Eat your damn vegetables! Watch your health improve.
[reprinted from my former site How to Tune a Human, May 31, 2013]
It is very reasonable to make a plan before “jumping on your horses and riding off madly in all directions,” for the simple reason that a target is needful if you wish to hit it.
However, it’s easy to become misled about this. You don’t need to know everything. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase; just take the first step.” And likewise, if you’re driving from Los Angeles to New York, just knowing that you’ll drive to the East is actually enough to start making a plan. In fact, you could just gas the car and start driving East.
And, lots of times, you simply cannot know everything.
Sometimes you cannot even research things very well. And if you take no action because the complete details of your plan are unclear, then very possibly no beginning step will *ever* be taken. And you’ll not reach the end of the path unless that first step is taken.
There are excellent ways to make a plan. [This is Step Two (Targeting) of my Five-Step Abundance approach.]
But there’s a step that must come first! And, often, it’s overlooked! [Read more…]
“Be all you can be!” said the advertisement. Join the army and you get to ride in a helicopter, and it’s exciting, oh boy.
(Ladies, it will seem silly to you, but it’s going to make sense to most any guy.)
But what?
What can I be?
And what can I have? And what can I do?
And … what do I want? [Read more…]
Mt. Shasta, California, April 9, 2013 — The birth of SiteSecureSquad.
A few months back, we were transferring websites from one server to another. It was a good idea — getting faster response and greater stability, better efficiency — and it’s worked out great for those things. But as it happened ..
March 2013, Weed, California — For months, or perhaps it’s been a few years, I’ve been cutting my hair with some clippers. It’s not that I’m too cheap to pay for a haircut, but I don’t like waiting around, and I don’t like sitting in the chair.
(Which is funny, because I sit in other chairs frequently, with no problem at all. Go figure.)
So last week, out of the blue, I thought, “Why not get a haircut?” I just thought that. For no reason.
And you know what?
Las Vegas, November 30, 2012 — Flying from freezy weather upon the Mt. Shasta, Arthur and Susan arrived in Las Vegas, only to be assaulted with balmy weather and hundreds of gargantuan advertisements.
Not content to buy full-page spreads in local newspapers or to saturate television images with photos of affluence, long automobiles, and scantily-clad breasts and body parts, large hotels such as the MGM Grand and others sport humongous advertisements on the multi-story facades. I suppose this means that Mr. and Mrs. Struthers from Iowa City are peeking out their hotel window through the huge left eye of Kris Angel, Illusionist Extroidinaire.
Maybe.
We’re hanging out with Susan’s daughter Kristina, plus two highschool granddaughters 18 and 15, and Mitch, who’s a regional sales manager for the Southwest for a really-slick heavy equipment manufacturer out of Europe. The granddaughters are fun, brilliant in photography and robotics, and of course the inevitable learning curve of boys, growth, and the info-dense nature of modern life, rock music, and the Vegas infotopia.
And toward the end of the day …
Mt. Shasta, November 23, 2012 — Nikolas and I have created a new ‘text-coupon club’ for local folks that live in our area, the towns of Weed, Mt. Shasta, Dunsmuir, & McCloud. Here’s what the Mt. Shasta Herald sez in the newspaper —
November 25, Mt. Shasta, CA– Mt. Shasta area residents can now receive exclusive discount deals from local restaurants and shops with new text-message coupon club, Siskiyou Daily Deals. Discounts and deals are sent by text message to members, who redeem their ‘text coupons’ at participating businesses. Anyone with a cell phone can join for free and receive fun, valuable incentives to shop and dine in Siskiyou County.
In addition to offering special discounts, over 30 local businesses have donated more than $1,000 worth of free prizes to give away, providing extra motivation for residents to subscribe. Prizewinners will be chosen at random intervals and instantly notified by text message when they win. To join, local residents can simply text ‘SHASTADEALS’ to (530) 419-6644, and if they ever want to opt out, they reply ‘STOP’ to the same number.
Siskiyou Daily Deals is a service of SweetLife Marketing Group, the new business venture of local marketing authorities, Nikolas Allen and Arthur Cronos. SweetLife ran a Siskiyou Daily Deals booth at the recent Winter Magic street fair in Mt. Shasta, where they signed up over 250 new members.
“Text messaging has become an essential part of our culture,” observes Cronos. “Since nearly everyone [Read more…]
