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Tough Love: Are you willing to be a great friend?
This is a repost of a blog from a good friend of ours, Phil Drolet. Phil is an excellent motivator and an overall great person. Check out his website here: The Feel Good LifestyleIf you had the power to make your friends happier, healthier, and more successful… Would you do it, even if it was a […]
Guilt Complex
Why Leaving a Book Half-Read is So Hard: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323469804578525354146879558.html “It goes against how we’re built,” says Matthew Wilhelm, a clinical psychologist with Kaiser Permanente in Union City, Calif. “There is a tendency for us to perceive objects as ‘finished’ or ‘whole’ even though they may not be. This motivation is very powerful and helps to […]
Mindfulness Growing in Silicon Valley
We’ve touched on the yoga benefits for coders and programmers and it seems this trend is continuing throughout Silicon Valley. Check out this Wired article on mindfulness and meditation at Google and other tech companies: Chade-Meng Tan is perched on a chair, his lanky body folded into a half-lotus position. “Close your eyes,” he says. His voice is a hypnotic baritone, […]
Practice Yoga For Your Type — An Ayurveda Intro
Lisa Hedley runs an interesting site called LAH Life. She has a few great resources to get started on an Ayurvedic path — or at least on learning what Ayurveda is. Ayurveda (def. life-science): Its origins are reputed to be 5,000 old, from the Indus valley and the basis of much understanding about the nature of the […]