Author name: Jim Dey

Simply Ways to Find More Time

Late Capitalism squeezes the last few drops of exploitable time out of our lives. And yet we try to improve ourselves personally and professionally, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. We can do something called Functional Freeze. We have so much to do, yet we can’t seem to get anything done! There are ways out of it this.

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How to Overcome Feeling Inadequate

Nothing annoys me more than hearing about a celebrity, consultant, guru or, yes, a coach, who says they overcame their overwhelming circumstances by quitting their (often lucrative) day job and becoming a consultant or a coach, and now they have a gold BMW and a Tesla and travel the world because they tell people how

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Humor: Woman Who Says Exercise Is Like Therapy Must Have Some Pretty Light Trauma

“It’s not like I can fault Dana for never having dealt with the trauma I’ve dealt with – that’s not her fault,” says friend Jarrod Smith, who enjoys both weightlifting and regular therapy. “I just wish she could understand that her problems are pretty small compared to most people, and some people require different solutions

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This is Your Brain on Junk Food: In ‘Hooked,’ Michael Moss Explores Addiction

I said as much in my post about Changing Body Composition. Science confirms it. This dude wrote a whole book about it. Tolja! In “Hooked,” Michael Moss explores how no addictive drug can fire up the reward circuitry in our brains as rapidly as our favorite foods. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/well/eat/hooked-junk-food.html The other thing about

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Have Plenty of Time? Don’t Need a Health and Wellness Coach

Someone might ask, “So, Jim, I read how you changed your lifestyle in mid-life, without paying a Health and Wellness Coach, so why do I need one?” Well first of all, I was under-employed and dead broke. I couldn’t pay for one if I wanted. But since I was under-employed, I had lots of time

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Weight Loss Drugs Dangerous Magic?

although these drugs may give you a leg-up on resistant weight loss, unless you change your lifestyle, you will gain it all back. It’s the same with extreme dieting, and with bariatric surgery. Your body is a perfect reflection of what you do with it: your movement patterns and your eating patterns. Change the patterns, change the body

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Coffee: Not Just the Caffeine?

If people ask me about work-out supplements, unlike people trying to sell you something, I’ll tell you that caffeine and creatine are the only substances scientifically shown to improve athletic performance. In moderation. Don’t blow-out your adrenals on energy drinks. So, I’m very happy to find that someone is researching this. It turns out, it

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