Tuesday, February 26, 2013
How Much Water Do I Actually Need to Drink Every Day?
Feb 26, 2013 10:00 AM
How Much Water Do I Actually Need to Drink Every Day?
Dear Lifehacker,
I've heard you need eight glasses of water every day, but I've also heard that it might be more or less. Some say too much water is bad, and many more say too little is bad. How can I know if I'm getting the right amount if nobody really knows what that amount is? Please help!
Sincerely,
Dumbfounded Drinker
I've heard you need eight glasses of water every day, but I've also heard that it might be more or less. Some say too much water is bad, and many more say too little is bad. How can I know if I'm getting the right amount if nobody really knows what that amount is? Please help!
Sincerely,
Dumbfounded Drinker
How to slim down and get rid of your muffin top forever!
If
you have a muffin top then I bet you want to get rid of it! Or, you
might be asking what on earth is a muffin top? I know I was bewildered
the first time I heard the phrase. My friend explained that it is the
fat on your back and sides that bulges over your waistband in the same
way the top of a muffin overhangs the base.On hearing of the muffin top phenomenon, my first reaction was ‘I have an instant muffin top remedy’. My friend listened closely, expecting me to share some profound fitness secret that could fix a muffin top in moments, but my answer disappointed her greatly. Apparently this wasn’t the response she had hoped for:
“A muffin top can be fixed instantly by wearing well-fitting clothes”
Unfortunately, my solution didn’t take into account the proliferation
of low-waisted pants and tops that don’t quite sit low enough. Although
my answer was funny, my friend really wanted to know which exercise
would magically erase her muffin top from existence. That way she’d be
free to wear what she pleased. After all, she explained, when she stood
in front of a mirror at the start of the day she had no muffin top. It
was only over the course of the day that her hated muffin top quietly
appeared because her posture slowly slumped and she stopped holding her
breath!Now, thanks to plenty of cardio exercise I don’t have a muffin top so perhaps I’m not as sympathetic as my friend had hoped. To my mind she looks lovely but I know that feeling like she has a spare tire brings her down, so here is my muffin top fighting action plan.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
11 Fascinating Facts About Breathing
Throughout our yoga, meditation, and pranayama
practices, there is a huge emphasis on the breath. But not so often do
we focus on how we breathe day by day, moment to moment – and, in turn,
how this affects our lifestyle.
Recently I completed an incredible course titled “Applied Anatomy and Physiology” with the inspiring yogi and physiotherapist Simon Borg-Olivier, through Yoga Synergy.
Simon talked (and demonstrated) a lot about the breath, and invited
along “Respiratory Physiologist, Behavior Modification & Breathing
Therapist” Roger Price.
Between the two, I learned many amazing facts about the breath, and how
these facts can completely transform your life! Here are 11 of them:
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The Power of People Skills | John Maxwell on Leadership
The Power of People Skills | John Maxwell on Leadership:
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The Power of People Skills
ByBy far the greatest obstacle to success that I see in others is a poor understanding of people. A while back the Wall Street Journal published an article on the reasons that executives fail. At the top of the list was a person’s inability to effectively relate to others.
One day I was talking to someone who was complaining about not winning a business contract that he had bid on. “It wasn't fair,” he told me. “All the people involved knew each other, and we didn't have a chance. It’s all politics.” But then what he went on to describe wasn't politics. It was relationships.
Authors Carole Hyatt and Linda Gottlieb indicate that people who fail on the job commonly cite “office politics” as the reason for their failures, but the reality is that what they call politics is often nothing more than regular interaction with other people.
If you haven’t learned how to get along with people, you will always be fighting a battle to succeed. On the other hand, making people skills a strength will take you farther than any other skill you develop. People like to do business with people they like. Or to put it the way President Theodore Roosevelt did: “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
Thursday, November 1, 2012
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