A life of well-being, meaning and purpose.
The fundamentals aren’t optional; they’re the platform for every other Excelerated Practice. When you honor the basics, everything else becomes easier.
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Excelerated Fundamentals™ means going beyond average self-care. It’s not about survival. It’s about strength. Energy. Clarity. Purpose. And it starts by choosing one area — and deciding that “good enough” isn’t good enough anymore.
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Small, consistent upgrades in your sleep, movement, and nutrition compound into massive gains in well-being, focus, and productivity. These are the fundamentals that power everything else
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The Christmas season is a time of joy, connection, and celebration but it can also feel overwhelming. To truly enjoy the season and show up as your best self for family and friends, you have to take care of yourself first.
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Continue reading “Health and Vitality: How to Align Your Standards and Values”We all have values – principles or qualities that we find worthy and desirable. Setting standards of behavior that align with our values helps us evaluate how well we are living out our values. Standards bring consistency and quality into our lives.
The fundamentals of good health — sleep, movement, and eating — offer us a chance to extend kindness to ourselves, and nurture our bodies and minds. It’s about making choices that honor our physical and mental well-being, recognizing that these choices are personal and unique to each of us.
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We can ignore the fundamentals for a time, but eventually, that behavior catches up to us and suddenly we find ourselves on a downward spiral. Consistency in the fundamentals is crucial.
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As you make small changes to take better care of yourself, you’ll eventually see that the results compound over time. Begin by taking small steps that you can consistently take and build on those. You’ll see that the little things become the big things.
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Circadian rhythm is the biological clock that regulates our patterns of wakefulness and sleep. Various factors can affect when and how melatonin, the “sleep hormone”, is produced. By regulating the factors that influence our circadian rhythm, we can improve that fundamental aspect of good health: sleep.
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Continue reading “Circadian Rhythm And Sleep”The activities that lead to a strong, healthy body give us a strong, healthy brain as well. Unfortunately, some experts have found that about 1/2 the activities we engage in lead to improved brain health but the other 1/2 are detrimental to a healthy brain. Doing a little more of the healthy activities and a little less of the unhealthy ones, add up over time to major improvements.
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My mother died from dementia, more or less. That wasn’t the official cause of death but a few days before she passed, a doctor told us how her brain had shrunk. She forgot how to swallow so she could no longer eat or drink anything and, then, she forgot how to breathe.
Her dementia was genetic, caused by a specific recessive gene, which can lead to hyperhomocysteinemia – too much homocysteine in the blood. We found that out years before her passing when she first began showing the signs of memory loss. Once we discovered that it was a genetic trait, I went to my doctor to be tested. I have the same recessive gene. I found it interesting that, in the report, the doctors labeled it “the family curse”.
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