
- 320mg Bacopa
- 200mg L-Theanine (2x per day)
- 600mg Ashwagandha
- 10mg CBD
- 720mg DHA
- 5g Creatine
- 400mg Magnesium
- Caffeine – Coffee and Tea Throughout the Day
I’ve been trying to drink more water and have been tracking with an app. Funny what it shows. Monday and Tuesday off to a good start. Then less and less each day of the week. My goal is 80 ounces a day. I have a lot of work to do with this habit. I have to maintain the motivation I have at the beginning of the week, when I try to “start again.”
1) Ability to have multiple contributors to a Picasa account/album (or whatever the name now that Picasa is in Limbo).
My wife and I both take a lot of family pics on our phones. Rather than having 2 separate public galleries, we use my account to display all the pics. Easy peasy for me. Not so much for my wife who e-mails me the pics, which I then upload.
2) Save from G+ to YouTube.
I also take some video. G+ auto backup is so convenient. I still have to post to YouTube separately. They should allow you to save the video from G+ to YouTube.
3) Same as in #1, have multiple contributors to a YouTube channel.
For all the same reasons as #1.
I can’t believe it was 2 whole years ago that I gave Google Now an honest try. I thought I’d try it again and see if there was any improvements to the service. So far, it doesn’t look like there were many.
What’s helpful:
What’s ‘meh:
What could be helpful, but isn’t:
What’s confusing:
What’s bad:
What’s Useless:
What it needs:
I touched on this a little before:
http://mattsoreco.com/mind-body-and-spirit/
https://mattsoreco.com/the-internet-and-mobile-are-destroying-our-brains/
http://mattsoreco.com/first-successful-30-day-challenge/
There have been ebbs and flows with my discipline. I still contend (I’m not justifying “failures”!!!) that although I didn’t achieve all of my 2012 resolutions or my more purposely-vague-2013 no-so-resolutions, the introspection involved refocused and reset my overall trajectory. And I’ve made some significant improvements. What do I have to show for it? Perhaps more clarity and a lot less stress. Next step: step out of my comfort zone and make more of the added bandwidth.
I don’t beat myself up over “failures,” mistakes, and slip-ups anymore. They are all learning experiences. I find the easier I am on myself, the more aware I am BEFORE I repeat the same mistake again.
One thing I kind of let slip… The garbage in / garbage out theory. Consume garbage, produce garbage. I’m talking about the intellectual type here, although a true analogy is you are what you eat.
During the last 2-3 weeks, I took out the scalpel and cut out most time wasters. Things that add no value to my life and only serve to occupy what seems to be merely idle time. That idle time, however, can make or break my overall mindset. The science behind it is out there.
Out:
In:
See left sidebar for links to said resources.
Since refocusing on focus (Yogi Berra would be proud of that one) and filling my head with good stuff, I’ve been able to think more clearly at work, feel more on top of my game, articulate complex points better, etc. The difference is profound. Their are downstream consequences of junk food of the mind–for me.
I hope to continue to post more to the blog also.
The 80/20 rule is a rule of thumb that states “for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.”
It can be applied to so many things. Marketing, advertising, production, etc.
And no doubt diet, exercise, and weight loss.
There is so much static and noise in the health and fitness community that it’s hard to sort out truth, fiction, lies, hopes, proof, deception, exaggeration, marketing, etc.
Arguments are made and defended where shades of gray are made black and white for the sake of defending one’s own opinion. Cults form. Paleo, Crossfit. Dogmas form. Intermittent fasting, low carb, slow carb.
There are also pros and cons to everything. Not everything is perfect and there probably isn’t anything that’s entirely bad (besides disorders like anorexia and bulimia). Paleo isn’t the only way to go.
Take for example the debate over calorie in and calorie out. That’s simply a weight loss method that says to lose weight you must consume less calories than you burn. There are opponents who dispute it, with the focus of their argument turning to an exaggerated hypothetical of someone consuming all of their “deficit” calories from Twinkies or Skittles. Strawman anyone?
For weight (and fat) loss, does calorie in / calorie out work? Indisputably yes.
Is it PERFECT? No, nothing is.
Is that the only variable? No, you should also make the calories you consume all healthy calories. You should also exercise, stay hydrated, get enough sleep, etc.
For weigh (and fat) loss, what 20% effort provides 80% of results?
On the flip side, what 80% effort provides 20% of results?
Also, the 80% effort stuff will lead to futility without first taking care of the 20% that drives the most change.
I’ve documented the healthy living part of healthy weight loss methods on my healthy living checklist:
http://mattsoreco.com/healthy-living-checklist/
Here is a great article to help sniff out fads and psudo-science:
https://www.scienceofrunning.com/2011/05/how-to-spot-bad-science-and-fads.html?v=7516fd43adaa
In my own opinion of course…
Google+ has been focusing on aesthetics far too much. They seem to be going more in the way of Pinterest.
Here’s the thing… Depending on the content you want, pictures, thumbnails, etc could be useless. In my case, it is. Very much so.
I follow a lot of online marketing industry people, companies, etc. Health and fitness people, companies, etc. They share and write information, not pictures.
I want a quick eye scroll through a lot of content. I want to read headlines. Not look at pretty pictures with no real context.
I don’t want…
2, maybe 3 posts viewable (using G+’s current multiple column view):
1, maybe 2 posts viewable (using G+’s single column view)–which I prefer over multiple “ADD inducing” columns:
19 or so “posts” viewable (like Google Reader’s compact view). They are getting rid of Google Reader by the way…
I have no patience for the new look. I know a lot of people stomp their feet after every Facebook design change. I don’t want to sound like that, but this one, for me, is a real reason not to want to check in throughout the day. Sorry G+.
Joking about the version number. I’ve switched this up so many times that I’ve lost track.
I’ve been drinking this one (and slight variations) the last few weeks:
I’ve switched from taking the veggies raw to steaming most of them. Cooked/steamed veggies are a little easier to work with plus reduces the oxalate level.
Another winter, another season of inactivity. Luckily each winter (of inactivity) I never put everything back on. But… Here we go again.
I’ve updated my “YoYo Graph.”