A Schedule for Healthy Eating

For most of your life, you probably have eaten breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now depending on your eating habits, this may be OK...but for vast majority of people, it's not. You skip breakfast because you don't have time, you have an OK lunch and then a huge dinner. Avoid this at all costs...

When you wake up, your body is screaming for food...it needs it! By skipping breakfast you're depriving your body of nutrients and forcing it to go into hiberation mode, thus slowing down your metabolism. Dinner should be your lightest meal of day because your metabolism is at its slowest...yet for most people, it's their largest.

That being said...

The ideal eating schedule is to have a small, healthy meal every 2-3 hours (healthy sandwich, protein shakes, fruit, healthy fats, whole grains, etc). Your body isn't wired for digesting huge portions of foods. By eating small meals every 2-3 hours, you keep your metabolism at top speed. And it really isn't all that difficult. Go out and buy nutrition bars (but pay close attention to ingredients)...buy good fat like peanut butter and almonds...fruit like apples and berries, whole grains breads- these are all foods you can bring to work with you. It's what I do every day so I know it's possible.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Work Life Balance

The Seven Deadly Sins of Work Life Balance In thirteenth century, Dante listed Seven Deadly Sins on pathway to Paradise: Gluttony, lust, greed, envy, pride, anger and sloth. Now, almost eight hundred years later, people are still committing these seven sins in Balancing Work and Play. So let me share with you Seven Deadly Sins of Balancing Work and Play ... and how to avoid them. 1. Gluttony: Trying to be all things to all people Don’t try to be all things to all people. If you try to please everybody, you will end up satisfying nobody. The secret to being successful at balancing life is to allow yourself to be human and release guilt from your life. Everyone gets wound up at times, when you notice it happening simply acknowledge where you are and move back to doing something more balanced. Don’t give yourself a hard time or anything-just keep moving forward. Success with a balanced life is just like success anywhere else: You choose your market, find a problem, and provide a superior solution. If you try to be all things to all people, you’re not just a glutton – you’re a glutton for punishment. 2. Lust: Falling in love with “gimmicks” Focus your time, money and energy on things that matter, not just those that catch your eye right now. This doesn’t mean an endless quest for Mr. Right, but it does mean that you don’t have to settle for Mr. Right Now. When it comes to balancing your life, this means stop buying a new thing every time you feel stressed or unhappy. Shopping has become latest way that people try to make themselves happy. You keep buying stuff that brings happiness for a very short period of time and when this wears off you’re back at shops again. Next time you have this urge, speak to a close friend or colleague and share how you are feeling, if you just stop for a minute and acknowledge where you are at it passes. Go for things that really make you happy like time with good friends compared to short lived shopping trips for more dust collecting stuff. 3. Greed: Looking for too much too fast When you first get started living a balanced life, there’s a temptation to do everything at once. But if you chase two horses, you’ll catch neither of them. The best way to get started is to choose one activity that is likely to give you high value, do that well, and then move on to next. That’s not to say that you should only be doing one thing at a time. But just be sure that everything you do is done well. Go for quality not quantity. 4. Envy: Copying tactics that don’t fit your strategy A Russian soldier stationed in West Berlin after Second World War wandered into an empty house and saw an electric light bulb for first time. Fascinated by this magic light-generating globe, he cut it off with his bayonet and put it in his knapsack so he could carry around light with him wherever he went. The same is true with living a balanced life. Don’t just do what somebody else tells you to do, unless you know why they do it. If they are successful, what they are doing is just one part of their strategy. You can’t just pick up that one thing, put it in your knapsack, take it somewhere else and use it to light up your world.