Nutrition, Quality of Life, Science
This morning I picked fresh strawberries and used them on the salad we had for lunch, they were delicious.
I planted the strawberries partly because they were on the dirty dozen list a couple of years ago. The Dirty Dozen list is part of an yearly manual released by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) showing which fruits and vegetables have the most – and the fewest – pesticides. This list helps us, the consumers determine which produce is worth the extra cost to buy organic when it’s not possible to buy organic EVERYTHING.
So I thought I should share the dirty dozen list (which is really 14 foods) with you today. They are:
apples
peaches
nectarines
strawberries
grapes
celery
spinach
sweet bell peppers
cucumbers
cherry tomatoes
snap peas (imported)
potatoes
hot peppers
kale / collards
Pretty much everything I love to eat!
Keep this list in mind when you do your grocery shopping and try to buy organic varieties whenever you can.
Tomorrow I’ll share the clean 15.
Make Your Minutes Matter!, Minute Movement Philosophies
Author, entrepreneur, marketer, and public speaker Seth Godin is a fascinating, swim against the stream, kind of guy who inspires people to greatness.
Seth once invited an audience to ‘follow my instructions and raise your right hand as high as you can’. Of course everyone raised their right hand. One second later he said, ‘now raise it a little higher.’ And everyone’s right hand got a little higher. Seth said, ‘Hmmm… what’s that about?’ .
All of us do it.
We hold back just a little.
Maybe it’s to protect yourself from running out of energy, or maybe you are afraid that you’ll hurt yourself if you give 100%, maybe you’re worried that someone will laugh at you if you give it your all. Some might say that we’ve been trained to hold back – at least a little. When you hold back you can say, ‘I could have succeeded if…’
It’s important not to hold back while doing your Minute Movements. That’s why we ask you to consciously increase the intensity, giving more effort every fifteen seconds. It never fails, there always seems to be just a little more in me that I can give to that minute – to myself.
Give yourself the gift of honest effort.
Make your minutes matter!
Mental Health
‘Rapport talk’ the language of inclusion that we learn in our family of origin and being mindful of how those tools work with different people can help us better communicate with the people we care about and work with.
Quality of Life
I like the idea of keeping myself and my family as free from chemicals and additives as possible and we’re working toward that goal one step at a time. Unfortunately when Spring rolls around we are all (at varying levels) pretty much a mess! I don’t care for the reaction that I have to over the counter allergy medicines so I was excited to come across this article entitled Allergy Season: Natural Ways to Treat Allergies.
It comes as an ever lessening surprise that the recommendations include the trifecta (Eat Right, Exercise*, and Get Enough Sleep), nor did it surprise me that many of the other recommendations involve careful cleaning of yourself and your home (take THAT pollen). I was, however surprised that peppermint tea and probiotics make the list. Check out the short article to see the rest of the list.
I plan to try a few of these today – right after I vacuum for the 47th time this week!
*Okay, so the article doesn’t specifically say ‘exercise’ but it DOES recommend reducing stress and one of the best ways to do that is exercise. Plus I like the word ‘trifecta’. 🙂
Make Your Minutes Matter!
Make Your Minutes Matter!, Motivation
Do you always give your all or do you tend to hold a little something in reserve?
So many of us fail to use everything we have at our disposal and if you aren’t reaching the success you long for it’s quite possible that you aren’t using all of your resources.
There are so many reasons that we hold back but after some reflection I think that FEAR may very likely be the number one thing (maybe followed by a little bit of laziness).
In the course of my research on the subject, I found this great interview about having an awesome (instead of average) life and think you might enjoy it – it’s a little long but well worth the read.
Go do something scary today, push yourself a little harder, and Make Your Minutes Matter!
Oh – for the record. I think I use about four of the speeds on my (12 speed) bicycle. I’m not sure how I feel about that.
