Monthly Archive: October, 2012

Grow Your Brain

Improve mental clarity and actually grow your brain by challenging your mind, emotions, and physical activity. When we challenge our brains by playing games, learning new skills or languages, playing music, and reading… Continue reading

SMARTER Goal Setting

Setting goals, whether professional or personal helps us to clarify and take ownership of our dreams.  Using the SMARTER approach to goal setting will help align your logic and emotions while providing positive… Continue reading

Brain Hierarchy

How we direct our brains to remain control of our emotions and inner conflicts has an enormous affect on our physical and mental wellbeing.  Here, Dr. Surgarman explains our brain’s inner hierarchy for an understand… Continue reading

Behavior Change Contract

Decisional Balance Sheet Value/Satisfaction Audit Personal Goals Mental Toughness Matrix Building New Habits The Perfect Reward 

Eating Our Way to Dementia

In the September 1 issue of New Scientist Magazine, Bijal Trivedi asks “Is the western diet poisoning our brains?” An excellent read backed with research assessing the connection between how our food and… Continue reading

Building New Habits

Creating new habits or replacing old habits with healthier alternatives is important to living a more resilient lifestyle.  Here are some initial tips for creating a new habit.  We’ll have more tips and… Continue reading

Brain Games

New websites like Luminosity and Superbetter have created a series of fun games to build personal resilience and improve cognitive function. Give them a try!  I would love to hear what you all… Continue reading

Your Moment of Zen

It’s time for a blast of positivity!  Change can sometimes be a real bummer, but sometimes it can also be a lot of fun — much like eating a lemon for the first… Continue reading

How Our Bodies and Brains Age

Paul Taylor explains multiple theories in how our lifestyle affects our body and brain aging.  Each of these theories fit together to offer a better understanding of how simple day-to-day choices can affect… Continue reading

Weight Loss Goals

After our first week, we now have a clearer sense of what we hope to accomplish in this program as well as accurate data about our activity and nutrition habits from the Fitbits. Many participants wrote… Continue reading