Working from Home During Crisis Can Deplete Mental Energy: These Tips Will Help
Working from home during COVID-19 can challenge our brain even more than we're used to because of constant distractions and multiple schedules. Are you feeling it? Here are three ways to optimize your brain energy and get more done. Have...
Valentines Day: Are You Still Loving Your Goals?
Valentines' weekend is here. Valentine's Day is a good time to show appreciation to someone you love, whether it's romantic or not. And do something for yourself, too. There's no denying that when you take care of YOU, you can take care of others better. A good way to...
Beyond Goals: Some Uncommon Advice About How to Achieve Them
If you have some important things you want to get done this year, and you really want to move the needle forward, you have to give them the appropriate time and attention. Of course, that includes...
If You Want the New Year to Be Different—You Need to Be Different, Too
To make this year different, you also have to be different. How will you become the person that matches your goals?
Whatever it is you want to change—you must act differently about it; think differently about it; even feel differently about it. If you want life to look like something you haven’t seen or been before, you need to do something differently than you have before.
As Leaders, How Do We Give Advice ?
In my upcoming book Eat to Lead, I discuss how we can develop good relationships with the people we lead. Interestingly, good relationships are a cornerstone to good health, so it's important to focus on having good relationships in all areas of life! But if we want...
How to Talk to People
It's been well researched that social relationships are necessary for human health and even our survival. We're a species that evolved through tribalism. Being social is in our DNA. I created several Meetup groups for this reason—to support people in leadership and...
Gratitude Meditation and the Healthy Leader
Our leadership abilities depend on how well we take care of ourselves. Mindset is one of the most important areas for leaders to focus on. It's right up there with eating, sleeping, and moving. Research finds that a regular...
Are Your Food Decisions Costing You Brain Energy?
Your brain uses approximately 20% of the energy you consume. All of your thinking, planning and deciding really does take up a lot of energy. The most energy-demanding work of your brain involves executive functioning. These are activities like: Understanding Deciding...
How to Find Out What Food Gives You Energy
Now that we’ve established what energy is, let’s talk about what energy feels like. In my last post I set the foundations of understanding what energy is. Before I went back to school for nutrition I thought “energy from food” was supposed to feel like caffeine. At...
Your Questions Answered: What do We Eat for Energy?
Because I work with busy men and women, one common question I'm asked is: "What do I eat for energy?" While popular media frequently alludes that one, magic food can offer the cure to everything from Alzheimer's to cancer and make us young again to boot, it's no...