Energy

What do you do when you’re having a rough day?

Stephen Covey‘s seventh habit of Highly Effective People is “Sharpen the Saw.”

In The Compound Effect, Darren Hardy makes the important point that we have more control over the very beginnings of our day and the very ends of our days than we do over the middle of the days.

As we’ve discussed, Michelle Segar is one of the world’s leading researchers studying the science of how to Optimize our health behaviors.

In our last +1, we talked about Rebound Days and the fact that you’re not going to be on every (!) single (!!) day (!!!).

We know it’s important to take good breaks. We want to work for a certain period of time (NASA says no more than 90 minutes or so) and then take a break. Repeat. Making waves as we oscillate from being on to being off.

Do you know how many times your heart beats in a lifetime?

Continuing our theme of sharpening our saw and resting before we get tired, let’s figure out how to avoid burnout.

At this stage, we’re all familiar with the idea of “circadian” rhythms.

In our last +1, we talked about the importance of honoring your ultradian rhythms—remembering the fact that our performance atrophies after about 90 minutes of work. Unless we enjoy poor performance, chronic fatigue and depression, we’d be wise to take regular breaks to reboot. 😃

In The Endurance Handbook, Phil Maffetone teaches us how to tap into our athletic endurance potential.

The other day, Phil and I were celebrating some Heroic goodness including exciting opportunities on the Social side of things (!) and the fact that over 400 Coaches signed up in the first week (yay!).

In our last couple +1s, we’ve had some fun hanging out with our suprachiasmatic nuclei and chatting about how to Optimize our sleep. Let’s continue that theme for a bit longer, shall we?

Why We Sleep is a life-changing kinda book. (You get it yet? Trust me, you’ll thank me!)

Joshua Rosenthal created the Institute for Integrative Nutrition—one of the leading health coaching certification programs in the world.

It’s hard to believe we’re already in the home stretch of the Mastery phase of our Heroic Coach program.

In our last couple +1s, we’ve chatted about a couple of my favorite ideas from the Mastery series lecture on The Fundies: How to Energize to Optimize and Actualize Virtue-Wise, Peak Performance-Wise, and Spirituality-Wise.

In our last +1, we explored the (brilliant) five-word philosophy of Georges Hébert: “Be fit to be useful.”

In our last couple +1s, we talked about a key (arguably the #1 key) predictor of our long-term health/morbidity: our visceral fat.

Continuing our (second!) trip through Sleep Optimizing, let’s talk about some important curfews.

In one of our very first Notes, we took a quick look at Brendan Brazier’s The Thrive Diet.

Not too long ago, we talked about Sleep Curfews. Five of them, to be precise.

In our last several +1s, we’ve been having fun Optimizing our Z’s. Let’s continue.

In our last +1, we talked about the fact that your taste buds are all shiny new every two weeks—which is good news if you’re addicted to overly-sugary stuff and worried about food tasting bland as you make a transition to Optimizing what you eat.

Let’s continue the Food Rule fun with one more +1 on Michael Pollan’s classic little food manual.

In our last +1, we spent some time breathing with James Nestor.

This morning I was preparing for the third session in our Algorithms Module in our Mastery Series for our Coach program.

In our last +1, we hung out with some scientists and doctors who decided to test whether or not FOOD prescriptions would be more cost-effective (and health-boosting effective) than just normal prescriptions for medicine.

One of my favorite parts about creating our Heroic Mastery Series is that it forced me to go to the next level of clarity on the most important aspects of our philosophy.

In our last +1, we talked about how the Peak Performance guys recommend we craft our optimal work-to-rest ratio.