I've got an awesome treat for you today, an excellent infographic provided by my friends at disturbmenot! as well as some health facts you may not know about sleeping less. This infographic describes some bizarre sleeping habits of famous people, such as Einstein, Newton, Tesla, da Vinci, van Gogh, and more. Read the post, and then check it out below. The Deadly Myth of Sleeping Less and Working More The modern world is one created and (seemingly held together) by paradoxes - we live … [Read more...]
10 Great Habits for Success In Your 20s
If you want to live a stress free life of financial freedom in your later years, early success is a must in order to allow your assets to grow over time, and give you the flexibility to pick and choose what you do in your later years. This is something that I was fortunate enough to experience in my 20s, but that was a long time ago, over a decade in fact. Today I welcome my friend Alli Clark, who is a little bit closer to this topic, to share 10 great habits to establish for success in your … [Read more...]
How Healthcare and Safety Improvements Can Improve Business Profits
Health and safety improvements often feel like an unnecessary expenditure, especially when it comes to the little things that often go unnoticed. And a lot of the time, it’s quite possible to just overlook the areas where improvements can be made. Here’s how health and safety improvements can actually be good for your business. What are health and safety improvements? Before we get into the good stuff, here’s a quick rundown of what the concept of health and safety improvements entail. … [Read more...]
How to Hack Your Sleep for Added Productivity (Hint: It Starts With Your Mattress)
As I write this post, my baby girl is close to turning 10 months old. It's hard to believe, but it's true. Needless to say, I've been getting a lot less sleep than I had been used to before she arrived. For that reason, I've had to do what I can to maximize the quality of the sleep that I do get. It's also well-known that as our standard of living rises, and technology further invades our lives, we are getting less sleep than we ever have. Today I welcome my friend Edie to give you a few tips … [Read more...]
A bunch of things that drastically change when you have a baby girl
If you've been reading this blog for any long period of time, you've probably noticed that I haven't been writing nearly as much as I normally do. There are a couple of reasons for this, one being that I'm putting more time into growing a small side hustle doing web consulting and building Wordpress websites for small businesses, called Louisville Web Nerds. The other, and much larger reason, being that my wife and I had a baby girl about six months ago. As you can tell by that terribly … [Read more...]
How Tim Ferriss Taught Me To Do Double Unders, & The 10,000 Double Under Challenge
For those of you that are unfamiliar with what a double under is, well, I can't really say I blame you. A double under is the passing of a high speed jump rope not once, but twice under your feet in a single jump. This is a common movement in the sport of CrossFit, which has recently taken the fitness world by storm, and a sport I participate in frequently. But this story isn't just about double unders. While it does involve the execution of 10,000 double unders in 30 days, it's about … [Read more...]
How Tim Ferriss Taught Me To Do Double Unders, & The 10,000 Double Under Challenge
For those of you that are unfamiliar with what a double under is, well, I can't really say I blame you. A double under is the passing of a high speed jump rope not once, but twice under your feet in a single jump. This is a common movement in the sport of CrossFit, which has recently taken the fitness world by storm, and a sport I participate in frequently. But this story isn't just about double unders. While it does involve the execution of 10,000 double unders in 30 days, it's about … [Read more...]
Life Lessons Learned While Dangling From a 15 Foot Rope
Having graduated with an MBA and having done fairly well for myself in life so far... it's not often I feel like a total idiot, but a couple of days ago... it happened. There I was in CrossFit class, in an incredibly equipped industrial style gym with about 15 people in it... all of whom were ready to do an ass-kicker of a workout. We had to lift around our body weight up to our face (depending on skill level), climb to the top of a 15 foot rope, and sprint a few hundred meters. But not … [Read more...]
Why You Don’t Work Out or Eat Well and How to Fix It
Have you ever wondered, even though you really want to, why you don't work out or eat well on a daily basis? Well, here's the dealio. When it comes to health and fitness in this world, there are three types of people. The first just doesn't care enough to ever learn anything that will work for the long term. They've never really made an effort to be healthy in their life, other than maybe the occasional battle with a trendy diet they saw on Dr. Phil, or … [Read more...]
Be Grateful. Be Successful. The Incredible Power of Positive Thinking
"What are you grateful for? It's amazing how your day, mood & perception can instantly change if you focus on the GOOD things in your life. What's yours right now?" This was a seemingly random Facebook update posted by Chris Winfield just a few days ago, a man whose knowledge, habits, attitude, and drive for success (and taste in music) I've come to look up to quite a bit in the past year or so since meeting him at the Blueglass TPA conference in Tampa, FL. His post received … [Read more...]