When my kids were little, I used to get sick several times a year. The kids were getting exposed to colds and other viruses at school and hadn’t built up immunities yet. They would catch the cold and bring it home. We tried to follow good hygiene rules (hand-washing, etc.)…
My friend Kevin was telling me of his weight loss struggles. He realized he kept procrastinating about working on the weight loss because there are about 10 habits he wanted to focus on to make it happen. He realized he was overwhelming himself by thinking about the 10 habits, and…
I recently took an exercise class called, “Let’s Have a Ball.” For 50 minutes we did numerous exercises, every one of which made use of a large exercise ball. We did exercises for the arms, the legs, the chest, and more. I wanted to share this with you because I…
Marcie and I love a wonderful bike path about a 20-minute drive from our house. It's a six mile train (12 miles round trip) , running alongside the Saddle River, and passing through four towns along the way. A few weeks back, en route, we passed a woman on rollerblades…
I've been biking to work lately. It's something I started doing last summer, partly inspired by my then-college-age son, who was living in Brooklyn and biking to his summer job in Manhattan. It was taking him about 30 minutes and I realized it would be the same for me. I…
This is not really a post about sex. But it sort of is. Most of us have seen those commercials for Viagra and other products that treat ED. The commercials feature pictures of people like the couple on bikes in today's photo (though they need bike helmets!) Like most drugs,…
About a year ago, I raised my desk so I could stand for most of my work day. I wrote about it last September, a couple of months into the "experiment" which turned into a permanent change. I originally raised my desk after I read in several places that sitting…
Someone recently forwarded to me a note called, “20 Things the Rich Do Every Day.” Apparently, the material is from the bestselling book, Rich Habits. While my site is not about becoming wealthy in the monetary sense, I like a definition I once read that said that wealth is an…
This is a guest post by Julian Hooks As a fitness enthusiast, I came to realize long ago that fitness and health are founded on regular workout routines. I’m a member of a family that suffers from obesity. As such, I have even more cause to make sure I’m fit…
In Six Simple Rules for a Better Life, I opened the chapter on the 6th rule, “Be Healthy”, with quite a few thoughts on longevity—on the amazing medical advances that are extending longevity. In my speaking engagements, when I talk about being healthy, I also comment about longevity—about how fortunate…
Making time for exercise is a big challenge for many people. Whether it's about exercise or anything else, time management is about making time for your priorities. How do you make time for exercise? I do it the same way I do everything else important to me: I treat it…
Martin E. P. Seligman is known as the father of the positive psychology movement. In positive psychology, the idea is to focus on helping people to be happier rather than solely focusing on treating conditions. Helping people to be happier is a huge driver for me and because I’m not…