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Men, this one’s for you!
Dr. Oz has a few things, well, 25 things! to say to you about taking care of yourself.
Women, tell your husbands and boyfriends, everyone forward to your friends, brothers, father and sons. It may just save their lives.
Dr. Oz’s 25 Greatest Men’s Health Tips
As you well know by now, Dr. Mehmet Oz is a professor of cardiac surgery at Columbia University and a founder of the Complementary Medicine Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He is co-author of the award-winning Healing from the Heart: A Leading Surgeon Combines Eastern and Western Traditions to Create the Medicine of the Future and YOU: The Owner’s Manual: An Insider’s Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger. He has frequently appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and currently hosts The Dr. Oz Show.
Oz says, “On The Dr. Oz Show, I’ve learned that once people are emotionally involved, change happens quickly, especially if they feel that their behavior is letting loved ones down.”
He goes on to say, “Even though large-scale change seems daunting, we still want and need simple routines that we can automatically follow on a daily basis for our best health. Adopt some of the steps described here, which work for me and that anyone can do, and you will like your life more in just a couple of weeks. Plus, you’ll live longer.”
My note: I’ve left most of Oz’s tips as simple self-explanatory titles, to others I’ve added more information to round out the point. Enjoy!
1. Roll on the Floor Laughing
2. Don’t Skip Breakfast
3. Hit the Sack (7+ hours of sleep!)
4. Admire Your Work — check out your poop!
Don’t be so trigger-happy with the flusher. Turn around and take a look at your poop, which speaks volumes about your gut and overall health. Poop should be smooth and S-shaped, like your colon. If it comes out too lumpy, or drops into the bowl like marbles, you’re constipated; increase your fiber and water intake.
5. Don’t Pamper Your Bad Back
6. Taste the Colors — Vegetables and Fruit
7. Brushing is Not Enough — Floss!
8. Take a Deep Belly Breath
9. Join a Yoga Class
10. Don’t Be an Island
11. Avoid Fad Diets
12. Be a Smart Patient
13. Lose the Beer Belly
14. Go Green — Green Tea
15. Sweat Until You’re Wet
16. Save Some Money
17. Have as Much Sex as Possible (Get ready ladies!)
18. Know Your Numbers, then Aim Lower
These include blood pressure (which ideally should be below 115 over 75), LDL cholesterol (under 100), resting heart rate (under 70), and fasting blood sugar (under 100). If your numbers aren’t ideal, change your diet until they improve.
19. Add Some Weights
20: Grab Your Nuts (I’ll fill this one in!)
Nuts are among the best sources of healthful fats and protein around. I keep a bag of walnuts in my fridge and use their massive dose of omega-3 fatty acids to boost my brainpower while I see patients. Half of a handful eaten about 30 minutes before a meal will temper your appetite and help you avoid the drive-thru.
21. No, Seriously, Grab Your Nuts (I’ll fill this one in too!)
Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in men ages 15 to 35, but it’s usually curable if caught early enough. I strongly urge you to grab your testicles and check them for bumps at least once a month. Each testicle should feel smooth and slightly soft, and one should hang slightly lower than the other, like two avocados (which, in Aztec, actually means “testicles”) growing on a tree.
22. Hit the Dance Floor
23. Do Your Penis a Favor (I’ll fill this one in also!)
Step on a treadmill. Men who exercise enough to burn 200 calories a day significantly lower their chances of impotence. That’s because impotence often has the same cause as heart attacks: blocked arteries. Your penis is like a dipstick for your arteries, so check it. If you’re interested in keeping it up later in life, lace up the sneakers now.
24. Learn to Cook
25. Some Pills Should Be Popped — Vitamin D
26. I’ll have to add a 26th Tip here men! — Get organized!
The more organized you are the less stress you’ll have all ’round!
Do you want more information on each of these? Click here for the full article on each healthy idea from Oz.
Whoohoo! It’s summer! It’s JULY!!
When did that happen!
Don’t let this summer rush by and not enjoy it (again!)
Plan these next few months well and really enjoy them.
If you have a family, or you’re single, you have to pre-plan or you know you’ll miss events that bring you new experiences, joy and possibly, new friends!
Think of all the great stuff you don’t want to miss! A trip, camping in the back yard, staycationing around the area to museums, parks, festivals and concerts and flower gardens . . . or hiking, enjoying pools and water fun and so much more!
So, here are the 8 TO DOs to Enjoy Your Summer, so that you don’t miss this year’s summer fun!
1. Write a list of all the things that you and your family want to do this summer. Have each of them write a list too so that no one is left out.
2. Get a family calendar out to start “penciling” in (you may need to erase and replace some events) your choices. You will of course need to compromise on some events, that’s part of being in a family and team that works together!
3. Need to order event tickets? Do it now before they’re gone!
4. Use those coupons, gift cards/certificates to save too! Find them and put them all in a labeled folder so that they don’t get lost.
5. Make a folder for each event that you commit too with all the information, directions, maps, contacts, reservations, tickets, coupons, etc. that you’ll need to easily follow through on the adventure.
6. Have one place where you and others in your family know where the coupons, gift cards/certificates, tickets, etc. “live” so that they don’t get lost and you lose out on your planned event.
7. Use the calendar to keep everyone up to date, on the same page and to keep from double booking events. Plus, no one can say, “I didn’t know!”
8. Look at the calendar often in order to pre-plan other things you may need for each upcoming event, like food, an umbrella, blankets for the grass, sun screen, band aides for hiking blisters, water, etc. With the family event calendar in plain view, remind others to check in on the calendar too (this keeps you from being the “Calendar Keeper!” and so, a martyr! Who needs that?!
No summer should be lost again to lack of pre-planning.
You and your family deserve to enjoy this lovely time of year to its fullest!
Try something new! Challenge yourself and your family to stretch and expand their experience this summer!
Plan, plan, plan…. and have fun, fun, FUN!
Oh, and send me a post card!!
Dr. DeClutter / PO Box 6149 / Longmont, CO 80501 I’ll be looking for it!
Enjoy!
Kim
In the insurance business there is a saying, “We don’t plan to fail, we fail to plan.”
In order to get the best insurance you can get for your desired “new normals” and goals, plan ahead now for the things you want to come true in your life… later.
The more you see, feel and plan your desires into your future reality, living “as if” it’s already real, you get benefits that are outstanding!
1. You attract it to you what you want faster and more clearly
2. You will be less likely to sabotage it when it shows up
3. You will have “practiced” it being true for so long that when it DOES happen, it will weave into your life very “normally” and gently.
Plan ahead.
Follow your plan!
See the BEST of what you want happening and exactly how easy and wonderful it will be in your life.
Make your future a “new normal” so that you step into it effortlessly.
“The possibility of stepping into a higher plane
is quite real for everyone.
It requires no force or effort or sacrifice.
It involves little more than changing our ideas
about what is normal.”
~Deepak Chopra
Life Focus Coach
Do you need help seeing your new future? Do you need help choosing your best plan and staying accountable to it and to yourself to get from here to there? I can help you.
I can work with you one-on-one to get focused, set your short and longterm goals and plan, and support in sticking with it in any area. See my coaching information, click here. See a menu of options for help in desired areas, click here!
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Walk, run, swim, laugh, love… with your friends and your healthy body this year!
Have you ever met one of those people who are like MAGNETS? They seem to ATTRACT exactly what they WANT all the time?!
Well, the truth is, we are ALWAYS getting what we WANT all the time!… even when it’s the opposite of what we think we want!
We are usually getting what we “don’t want.” Listen to what you think and say in a day’s time, you will say, “I don’t want …” more times than you realize!
It’s really all about FEELINGS.
We are always ATTRACTING the ESSENCE of the FEELINGS that VIBRATE out from us. FEELINGS of fear, happiness, joy, love, peace, doubt, etc. about people, places, things and experiences. They all have SIGNATURE VIBRATIONS that will ATTRACT back to us the same in some FORM.
So… as we CONSCIOUSLY work on REMEMBERING who we REALLY ARE… our WANTS can be more FOCUSED and ATTENTION more CLEAR.
YOUR RAS: “RETICULAR ACTIVATING SYSTEM”
Your RAS, or Reticular Activating System is a real scientifically proven part of your brain. Think of it like a dog – a well-trained dog!
You tell your dog to “go fetch” a bone, and it does. And, it brings it back to you. Your RAS will “go fetch” whatever you ask for; it doesn’t judge or care whether your desire is good or bad for you, it will just start hunting “it” down. Or, think of your RAS like a radar beam, going out to connect with the like radar signature that best matches your level of CLARITY about your request.
That is why it’s SO important to be SPECIFIC and CLEAR about what you’re asking for! Ask for what you WANT, set your INTENTION, FOCUS your INTENTION and you will begin to see fragments of it come your way, sometimes immediately! The more FOCUSED your are, the bigger the fragments and puzzle pieces until you get “it!”
I wrote this during the 2010 Winter Olympics and sent in my newsletter, but as an evergreen issue it needs to be here too!
Where do you want to be in 4 years from now?
Do you want to be as spot-on as a gold medal winning Olympian?
It takes an Olympic athlete at least four years — but usually their entire life — of planning, practicing and sacrificing to be challenged by the best of the best in the world, once every four years, to see if they can win the coveted gold, silver or bronze medal. What must it be like to be this in love with one sport, this focused on one thing, to go through what they do on a daily basis to work out, stretch and challenge themselves to be the best in the world?
What do you love this much?
What would you want to focus on this much to get your personal equivalent of a gold medal in four years from now?
People often ask one another, “Where do you see yourself in 6 months, 1 year, 5 years or 10 years?” But, watching the Olympic really made me narrow my vision to this 4-Year Plan concept. I like it!
Where do you want to be in 4 years from now in some area of your life?Whether your goal is physical health or body shape, relationships, education, job level, happiness, travel dreams, hobby or craft goals or business heights, what would be your gold?
DO THIS:
Take a notebook and draw a time line marked out in four sections, one for each of the next four years. What accomplishments or challenges do you want to see yourself realize and complete? What do you want to be, do or have in four years from now due to your new focus, plan, discipline and follow-through? And, along the way, just as the Olympic athletes, there will be other awards and recognitions before the Big Games, mark them all.
Now, write out your plan within these four sections narrowing each year down into its months, weeks and days. This is your plan!
Now, it’s DO IT TIME! All you need do for yourself now is follow it!
Find 4-Year Plan Buddies and start today. No waiting!
If you need help, I also offer personal and group/buddy coaching by phone! Let’s do this!
”A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.”
~ Jesse Owens
African-American athlete, 1936 Summer Olympics
“The first thing is to love your sport.
Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.”
~ Peggy Fleming
American figure skater, 1968 Winter Olympics
“All I’ve done is run fast.
I don’t see why people should make much fuss about that.”
~ Fanny Blankers-Koen
Dutch athlete, 1948 Summer Olympics
We tend to look at piles and heaps and think that decluttering just means getting organized again, right?
But, the cold-hard-truth is that decluttering just isn’t about moving your possessions around so that they fit better; it is about coming to terms with the issues “under” your stuff. Those emotions, grief, loss, fears, safety and security issues, etc. that make us pile and stack and “trance out” like zombies so that we don’t “just do it” one more day, month and decade.
This is true not only for physical “stuff” clutter and things, but weight and relationships and other “stuck” places. Deal with the “inner clutter” in your mind and emotions and you’ll be amazed at what falls away easily and effortlessly and what gets organized or moved out more quickly.
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
The big reason to get to the bottom of the pile of emotional back-logged clutter you have about whatever issues you have in your life is that the energy of the clutter that surrounds you is actually suppressing your ability to acknowledge your deepest desires - and furthermore, to act on them. The driving force in our lives are our priorities. Priorities give us the necessary focus to make plans, decisions and get things done.
Set your priorities today. Write them down. Notice what emotions show up as you “get serious” about your life, purpose and direction. Face those emotions with honesty and whatever emotions surface to release them (declutter inner stuckness) so that you can move forward.
EFT
I can help you with this on a one-to-one basis if you are interested. I offer Focused Life Coaching using EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique, to help you release the blocks from your mind and body more quickly. Click here to find out more.
To be a conscious creator we need to be aware of our intentions, attentions and actions. The key here is starting to think, know, believe, intend and act upon what you WANT, not what you DON'T WANT.Our minds naturally go for the negative, the don't want. "I don't want to gain weight!" Instead of , "I want to stay at the weight I am." Or, better yet, "I love being the weight I am and will do what it takes to stay here!"Being proactive is paramount in setting your New Year's Goals and Intentions. Set your DO WANTS now!
EXERCISE: On a piece of blank paper make two columns. On one side write all of the DON’T WANTS, go ahead and get them out of your head! Now, in the other column rewrite the DON’T WANT into a DO WANT! Keep doing this until you find that your brain has been retrained to start thinking DO WANTS first!
I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.
~ Henry Moore
Get out your colored pens and pencils and make your first or your fiftieth end-of-year gratitude list!
Never done one before? Great time to start!
It’s just too easy to let another year slide by and forget all of the good that has come into our lives, and all the good that we’ve done. Making daily gratitude lists are a good place to review and find the nuggets that you want to include.
This is a great exercise in remembering all the good in life, in your life, and even better, to take this good feeling into your new next year!
Make the time to sit and reflect over 2009 and be grateful, thankful, appreciative and kindhearted to yourself and your life experiences.
The good you get out of this will also be very helpful as you decide who you want to be for the next 365 days!
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