2014

2014 is here- how will you spend it? Will YOU be different from 2013?

Dare to Dream

When was the last time you took the time to set goals?

Are you getting a quality nights sleep?

Peter Tripp holds the Guinness world record for the longest time awake.
Record: 201 hours and 10 minutes awake

Peter Tripp embarked on this journey in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record. Tripp began his quest publicly and eventually had to be moved to a hotel room so he could be continually monitored.
The longer Tripp was awake, the more medical assistance he required. Eventually, Tripp’s brain began to shut down.
After 3 days, he developed inappropriate affect- he lost the ability to self regulate his emotions in response to his environment. For example, he would laugh at inappropriate situations. By day 4 Tripp had progressed into a full blown psychosis state of which he never recovered.

Post the experiment Tripp had a lot of conduct problems and lost the ability to control his emotions. He consequently lost his job and marriage due to his permanent psychosis and inability to control and regulate his emotions.

Have you considered if you are getting enough sleep? Is the quality of your sleep sufficient to prepare you for the day ahead and allow your body and brain recover from the previous day?

Most people do not experience enough sleep and if they do, it isn’t good quality.
There are many short term affects of sleep deprivation including:

Impaired attention
Reaction time
Decision making
Motor coordination
Cognitive speed and accuracy

Although there are also some shocking long term affects of continued sleep deprivation:
obesity,
diabetes,
hypertension,
coronary disease

Lack if sleep has been shown to increase mortality rates. So the next time you decide to miss out on sleep because of work, social media, exercise, social events- consider that you may actually be shaving months, potentially years off of your life.

So what are you doing to improve your sleeping time and quality?

Happy Friday

Are you eagerly awaiting the weekend?
Well done to everyone who has stuck with their training and healthy eating this week and made it through work.

Take the time to reenergise yourself this weekend by spending time with people who have a positive impact on your emotional state. Spend some time planning and thank yourself for being so strong.

Choose your FOCUS this weekend. DETERMINE your state of mind and create a strong empowering state in preparation for next week.

Believe and you can achieve!

All to often we can become stuck in the daily rut. We are constantly expending all of our efforts to get ahead in life, to earn more, do more, be more, love more, learn more, think more. Where are we really going? Ensure that you make time to do the things that will really bring you fulfillment in your life. Take the time to plan a holiday, why not go to Fiji? Why not take that weekend trip? Life is all about experiences and savouring those social interactions we cherish. Take the time to plan ahead because time can certainly fly by.

Go on, go outside- spend some time in the sunshine! Life doesn’t happen at your computer! Go and build the body of your dreams, run a marathon, take a holiday- enjoy the sunshine!

Here is a photo I recently took of Cloud 9 in Fiji.

Positive Thinking

It is important to focus on the positive aspects of life and realise that every problem in life is an opportunity to learn and to grow. Once we realize this, we can develop and minds. We are always learning, always growing.

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb