The fact that I am writing these blog posts and the reason behind you reading my posts is that I am representing the thoughts, the behaviours, that attitudes, the decisions and the choices you have rejected and procrastinated again and again and again in your life. You have consciously or unconsciously rejected the right things […]
Tag: Mindset and Motivation
Improve the Quality of Your Answers to Life’s Questions
The quality of answers you give to yourself to the challenges and questions in that your life throws at you would determine the quality of life that you possess. The quality of your answers to life’s bouncers will determine your attitude and therefore your decisions. Going by the same logic, the results that you experience […]
Results of our Healthy Habits Compound Over Time
Healthy habits are the compound interest of self improvement on daily basis. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your healthy habits multiply as you repeat them in small simple steps. Eating healthy, regular exercise and sleeping well seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the […]
What We Can Control and What We Cannot Control
What you can control Diet Training Sleep Research Planning Preparation Mindset Commitment Consistency Discipline Not comparing Not complaining Not controlling external factors Only controlling our own body and mind Not having victim mindset Taking responsibility Our beliefs Our values Our thoughts Our feelings Our emotions Our attitude and behaviour Our decisions Our choices Our actions […]
How Our Life Improves as We Become Strong and Healthy
In health there is freedom. Health is first of all liberties Henri Frederic Amiel This is what I believe Exercising (both aerobic and anaerobic) consistently and challenging ourselves to become stronger, fitter and healthier –> Releases BDNF (Brain derived neurotrophic factor) endorphins which fertilizes brain neurons and enables neuroplasticity –> This makes you healthier and […]
Perfectionism May Not Be Good In All Situations
Too often, we fall into an all or nothing cycle with our habits. This happens especially with majority of us when it comes to our health and wellness habits. The problem is not slipping up; the problem is thinking that if you can’t do something perfectly, then you shouldn’t do it at all. ~Praveen Jada […]
Start your Wellness Journey with Whatever You Have
There is no right time or a perfect day to start with something that improves your health and quality of life. Do the best you could do with what you have and where you are. Small incremental steps and actions when taken consistently add up to make a huge positive difference when it matters. Take […]
Importance of Phenotypic Flexibility and Hormesis for Improving Strength and Resilience
Scientists have been using the term “phenotypic flexibility” to describe health. Strive to live a life that increases your resilience and ability to tolerate all sorts of extremes. In the fields of biology and medicine ‘hormesis’ is defined as an adaptive response of cells and organisms to a moderate (usually intermittent) stress. All biological organisms […]
What Happens to Someone’s Brain From Complaining Every Day
We can change our brain for the positive, so we don’t have to feel “stuck”. We can increase our intelligence (our “I.Q.”). And, we can learn new, life-changing skills. In some instances, a person can recover from brain damage. “Neurons that fire together, wire together.” Relationship between our thoughts (“neurons that fire”) and structural changes […]
THINK LIKE A FARMER TO PURSUE YOUR HEALTH AND WELLNESS GOALS
**Consider ‘crops’ are like your resolutions, goals, passions and various decisions you * Relate ‘crops’ are like your “resolutions, goals, passions and various decisions” you take for your overall well-being and Relate the “farmer” to YOUSELF Be practical. Choose the crops* in accordance to the soil, geography, weather conditions and other dependent factors like capital […]
Mindset for Leading a Healthy Lifestyle – Have High Integrity
We need to have high integrity. We must stick to our word once we say it. Leading by example is very important when we want to create trustworthy relationships, reliability, credibility and positive impact on others. Walk the talk. Make it possible. Be resourceful rather than searching for resources. Integrity is standing by our word […]
Mindset for Leading a Healthy Lifestyle – Take Action Now
You are much more likely to act your way into healthy thinking than to think your way into healthy acting. —Roger Seip If we want to know what we value in life, then let’s go and evaluate how we spend money and places we visit. We need to do an assessment on how we spend […]
Mindset for Leading a Healthy Lifestyle – Have Faith
Faith is having the belief that there is going to be better future and hoping for things to improve even though everything seems to have fallen apart now. Having faith and hope enables us to take better decisions. Our decisions would be instinctive, short sighted and would be focused on instant gratification when we are […]
Mindset for Leading a Healthy Lifestyle – Focus on Process
We need to focus on the process and journey while we are pursuing our ambitions. Progress is more important and achieving perfection. Making progress, growing and learning on the way to success are key factors that keeps us motivated. There is no perfect result or results may differ from what we imagined at the beginning. […]
Mindset for Leading a Healthy Lifestyle – Emotions and Subconscious Brain
Our subconscious mind (we can also call it as emotional brain) chooses easy over hard, pleasure over pain, inaction over action, energy saving over expenditure. These are human evolutionary traits. This does not mean there is something wrong with us. Stop feeling guilty about it and stop saying to yourself that you lack self-control. Instead […]