The Paleo Diet was just ranked last on a “best diets” list, mostly due to its restrictiveness.
If only there was a modified Paleo Diet. One where you could eat peanut butter. One where you could eat any food, any amount on Saturdays.
Oh, yeah. Lifeisnoyoke.
Need silence to write? Don’t write around people.
Need to stop drinking Diet Coke? Don’t be around soda.
Need to read more? Don’t have a TV in your bedroom.
Getting what you need is easy. Don’t you know?
My best advice for 2014? Don’t listen to people’s advice.
But if you must:
Anything less specific, more challenging or takes more time is bad advice.
Productivity. Clarity. Direction.
I get those from these:
Four easy things for every morning:
That’s it.
And oh, by the way. You just got four things done and you haven’t got into work yet.
If you have an hour to write an email, you’ll write it in an hour.
If you have a large suitcase to bring on your vacation, you’ll fill the large suitcase.
If you have a big plate at the lunch buffet, you’ll fill the plate.
Yes, getting more done, being less cluttered, and eating less can be quite the internal battle. But why fight it? Downsizing is so much easier.
If you ever thought you had a Diet Coke addiction, you’re not alone. The other good news is that it’s not your fault. You probably don’t have a choice. Thank your brain.
Your brain is the one that’s addicted. Not so much you. It’s your brain that doesn’t take no for an answer.
Part of it is the caffeine, sure. It’s the #1 addictive drug in the world. Your brain hurts without it.
The other reason for being addicted to Diet Coke? It’s there. Everywhere. Down the hall. Across the street. In the fridge.
A tired brain is a stubborn brain. And a stubborn brain wants instant satisfaction. When your brain knows an ice-cold Diet Coke is within reach, there’s no stopping it.
Want to end your addiction to Diet Coke? Just hide it. Better yet. Toss it out completely.
You won’t miss it.
Building your day is like building a house. Make a plan and build it around the foundation.
There are two options for the type of foundation which you’ll build your day around:
The foundation comes first. And it determines whether or not your house collapses.
What’s in your foundation?
This job? That job? This project? That project? This marketing tactic or that one?
No worries about that “how I’m going to get there” stuff. I’ve figured out where I want to be.
I want to be an influential leader in the American Health and Wellness Advocacy community.
That’s it.
Notice there’s no “doing verbs” like change or sell or build. That’s all “how you’re going to get there” stuff. That’s all stuff I’m doing, but most of it is getting me “where I want to be.” Anything not getting where I want to be should and will stop.
Want the formula? Fill in the blank: “I want to be a ________ (adjective and title/impact) in the _______ (specific community/niche).”
Some more examples:
Your “where you want to be” can and will change. For a while, mine was a “calculated risk-taking entrepreneur in the road-warrior consultant world.” Now, it’s “an influential leader in the American Health and Wellness Advocacy community.” Later, it will be different.
But, I like where my “where you want to be” is now.
How about you with yours?
Daylight savings not just so farmers have an extra hour of sunlight in their workday. It’s not just based on needing to use less candle light (energy). Daylight savings time helps some other people, too.
What about the bar owner who can serve Jager bombs for an extra intoxicated hour? Daylight savings time helps him make more money in the fall.
What about the posturing apartment manager who can leave a memo on the elevator reminding us to set our clocks back and have a pleasant weekend? Daylight savings time helps him look like he’s doing a good job.
What about the fortunate ones like me who never set an alarm, but choose to wake up with the sun? Daylight savings helps us get started earlier.
But since very few people can empathize with a shrewd bar owner, or an incompetent apartment building manager or a guy who proudly quit his day job, why are we still doing daylight savings time? Studies show it actually causes a 1% increase in energy consumption a decrease in public health.
What if daylight savings time was a choice? But instead of setting your clock back, how about just scheduling breakfast back an hour?
Could there be an easier way to decrease energy consumption and improve public health?
I bet there are several lobbyists out there who have some ideas.
I get asked all the time about McDonald’s Egg White Delight. Most often, it sounds like, “Yo, Do you care that McDonald’s is using your phrase ‘All yolks aside’ to promote their egg white McMuffin?” My response is always the same. I laugh.
McDonalds Egg White Delights are def NOT noyoke. They’re not even worth eating on a rest day. Here’s why McDonald’s Egg White Delights are not healthy and are no different from all other McDonalds products: Junk.
Yes, McDonald’s Egg White Delights are void of egg yolks. Yes, eating eggs without yolks is fewer calories and nearly void of any saturated fat or cholesterol. And yes, if you’re going to eat McDonald’s breakfast anyway, opting for egg whites is probably a better choice. But the eggs themselves come from highly processed, caged hens. Then, before they get to your sandwich, they’re microwaved and doused in non-stick spray made liquid margarine (a mix of several hydrogenated oils). Alas, while the egg white on the Egg White Delight pretty bad for you, it’s probably the healthiest part of the entire sandwich.
The meat and cheese on the Egg White Delight make the seemingly healthy egg white guilty by association. The cheese acts as the treated, colored and processed salty glue that holds everything together. Cheese that’s pure and fresh isn’t hardly healthy, let alone this crap. The meat, similarly, is a hardly meat. Chemically enhanced with phosphates, nitrates and other preservatives, the Canadian bacon struggles to serve any nutritional purpose. Put the “meat” and “cheese” together and you get a tref, colorful, salty middle layer. And that’s just what’s in-between the English muffins!
The English muffins, seemingly the most innocent part, include a secret weapon. No, not gluten or enriched bleached flour, even though they’re in there and are a formidable contributor to American obesity. McDonalds’ English muffins are loaded with high-fructose corn syrup. Why? McDonalds injects HFCS into its muffs to make them sweet and, more importantly, addicting. Yes, HFCS is addicting and causes obesity and general laziness. Most normal, store-bought muffins, however, have no HFCS.
So to answer the question I get all the time, I don’t care that McDonald’s uses “All yolks aside” in their ads for the Egg White Delight. It’s not a threat to me or my brand. It cannot compete with the quick and easy scrambled egg whites with kale, apple cinnamon quinoa, or any other breakfast you can make in five minutes. Healthy breakfasts never include chemical-laden egg whites, highly processed meats or cheese, or HFCS-enhanced English muffins. That stuff is NOT good for you. And that’s noyoke.