One of my clients said, on her deathbed, “This is so beautiful…and so warm. There is light, everywhere.” Lomi, age 76
1: “Please forgive me! Please forgive me!” Ruth exclaimed.
“She was sitting up with her eyes open wide,” Diane Button writes in her powerful book What Matters Most: Lessons the Dying Teach Us About Living.
The seventy-year-old Ruth was experiencing severe distress and agitation. Diane, who serves as … continue reading
“Sleep is the most effective tool in your arsenal to achieve optimal health, performance, and recovery,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.
In the past two weeks, we’ve explored Sahil’s strategies for optimizing Physical Wealth, focusing on Movement, Nutrition, and Recovery.
When it comes to the third pillar, recovery, the most important area to … continue reading
How to Promote Calm: Science-Backed Breathing
1: Stress gets a bad name.
Like many things in life, the Goldilocks rule applies here.
Too much stress. Not good. In fact, it will kill us.
But too little stress is not good either.
To perform at our best, we want to harness stress and use it to our advantage.
Or as Goldilocks says, “Not too hot. Not too cold. Just right.”
“Stress … continue reading
When we arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” —Marcus Aurelius
1: “The first hour of our morning sets the tone for the entire day,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.
Sahil writes: “Thoughtful movement and nutrition during that window will make … continue reading
1: Ever heard someone say, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.”
Actually, ironically, not sleeping enough is a terrific way to end up dead much sooner.
“Sleep is nature’s miracle drug, yet it remains severely underappreciated and underutilized,” Sahil Bloom writes in his terrific book The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.
A 2019 Philips Global Sleep Survey of 11,000 participants in 12 countries found … continue reading
1: “We live as if we can control the hands of time,” Diane Button writes in her wonderful book What Matters Most: Lessons the Dying Teach Us About Living.
“We spend time, waste time, lose time, save time, kill time, and buy time,” Diane notes. “We live as if the clock ticks based on our own needs and desires.”
And yet, time is finite. And we never know how … continue reading
1: When it comes to nutrition, we get it wrong.
“Fad diets with extreme principles pushed by savvy marketers have dominated the cultural understanding of nutrition over the years,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth.
“But contrary to what these expert marketers might tell us,” he notes, “proper nutrition is quite simple.”
Nothing extreme or complicated is required here.
2: This week, we’ve been … continue reading
1: Moving our bodies isn’t just smart—it’s essential for health and longevity.
“When it comes to movement, the research is clear,” Sahil Bloom writes in his inspiring book The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.
“In a 2012 paper published in the Journal of Aging Research, researchers found that all-cause mortality was reduced by a striking 30 to 35 percent in the physically … continue reading
1: The global wellness economy is $4.4 trillion.
Wowza.
“With each new fitness gadget promising perfect abs and each new miracle health food promising youthful vigor, we are forced into a silent battle against the overwhelmingly strong and savvy energy of the world’s best marketers,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth.
“Their jobs depend on convincing us that we need all of it to … continue reading
1: In her book Imaginable, New York Times bestselling author Jane McGonigal takes her readers through what she calls “futures thinking” that “inspires us to take actions today that set us up for future happiness and success.”
The guided exercise has us imagine our future self in great detail.
Imagine that it is our 80th birthday…
“What are we wearing? Where are we? What’s around us? Who is around … continue reading
