The Powerful Purpose Behind this Blog
This is a blog about the art of consistently doing the right things in life. We all have a pretty good idea of what those right things are, but all too few manage to do them consistently.
Getting better control over your body and mind can really elevate your life, but there’s also a bigger purpose: building a sustainable and equitable society. To illustrate, this post gives all the details on how efficient living can literally save the world 🙂
Save the World by Building a Life You Truly Love Living
We all know there are many serious problems in the world. And fixing these problems will require great sacrifice from all of us. Or will it?
Today’s post presents the concept of Life Efficiency: an idea that can address all the major problems threatening our society today without having to sacrifice any of our health and happiness. In fact, the wellbeing of anyone implementing this idea should improve considerably. Yes indeed, you can help save the world by building a life you truly love loving 🙂
10 Practical Steps to Dramatically Lower Energy Bills
Save money, the economy, and the environment all at once
The Path to Greater Life Efficiency
Finding health and happiness in a smaller ecological footprint
Your Health: A Big Picture View
A healthy lifestyle goes far beyond losing weight and feeling good; it’s about building a bright future for you and your planet.
A Hero’s Journey: Building Your Healthy Diet in a World Awash With Empty Calories
Ten levels to vanquishing the legions of unhealthy temptations that surround us every day
A Proven Longevity Lifestyle to Fight the Disease of Aging
How to (enjoyably) mimic adversity for a long and healthy life
The World’s Toughest Challenge
One guy’s quest to do everything right, consistently.
The Top 10 Healthiest Foods as Identified by 10 Nutritionists
A top 10 list distilled from the insight of highly-rated experts
I Paid Five Nutritionists to Critique My Diet
And it turned out to be a great investment!
The Salad That Did the Impossible
It got me to eat salad almost every day!
The “Big Five” Reasons to be Grateful Every Day
You enjoy much greater fortune than you might think!
A Practical Guide to Mastering the Mental/Physical Health Connection
Mental and physical health interact in self-strengthening spirals. It’s up to each of us to determine whether they spiral up or down.
A Quality Life with Clinical Depression: My Mom’s Story
Four decades of wisdom to give hope where it’s needed most.
Happiness Lives on the Border Between Order and Chaos
Life on the border can be practical yet exciting, responsible yet fun, structured yet inspiring.
The Willpower Gap: A New Understanding of Happiness
Willpower is to happiness what money is to wealth.
How to Handle Primitive Fight-or-Flight Emotions in the Digital Age
Our natural stress response is long due for an update.
Four Lifestyle Design Strategies to Set Your Happiness Free
Want a good life? Free yourself from compromise.
Why We Spend 4x More Time on Leisure Activities 3x Less Likely to Make Us Feel Good
A little bit of psychology to bring a lot more joy to life.
Four Outdated Social Narratives that Still Govern Our Lives
It’s an age-old recipe: Get a degree, land a well-paying job, find a loving partner, start a family. But have you ever stopped to think whether it actually works?
Falling Up: The Art of Finding Fortune in Your Misfortune
How handicap, disease, and injury bettered my life
Five Steps to Authentic Happiness
Discover what life is supposed to feel like.
Seven Wholesome Indulgences You Can Enjoy Every Day
True lifesavers in a world awash with unhealthy temptations.
A Practical Strategy for Dealing with Negative Emotions
Unhappy thoughts and feelings can be valuable guides to lasting happiness and fulfillment.
Ditch the Instant Pleasure Industry. Live a More Pleasurable Life.
“Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.”
How Happy Are You, Really?
Three unusually objective tests to illuminate the path to long-term happiness and fulfillment
How Happy Are You?
Seven revealing tests for a deeper understanding of your current state of wellbeing.
7 Paths to Greater Happiness Through Exercise
Science-backed ideas to make the world’s most natural antidepressant even better.
4 Great Fitness Synergies for Those Who Live Behind Their Computers
There are many benefits to becoming a fit nerd!
How to Maintain Decent Muscle Tone With Minimal Effort
Lean. Healthy. Confident. All for less than 5 minutes a day.
The World’s Best Fitness Tool
It takes planning and patience, but if you purposefully seek out this one thing, lifelong fitness becomes a breeze.
4 Skills That Guarantee Lifelong Fitness
Here’s how to dance, ride, play, and pose your way to spontaneous fitness for life!
How Fit are You?
Find out with these simple, age-adjusted tests of cardiovascular fitness, strength, flexibility, and balance.
How Mastering My Diet Gave Me a Life of Genuine Freedom
Today, my little corner of the world is free from empty calories, empty media, and empty work 🙂
The Complete Guide to Building a Lifelong Healthy Diet
Here are the 10 steps to natural and willpower-free enjoyment of healthy food.
Effortless Health: The Power of Healing Your Brain’s Broken Reward System
Discover the power of reversing the hedonic treadmill and engaging fully in the experience of healthy food!
The 12 Foods That Gave Me 12 Consecutive Years of Perfect Health
Thanks to these natural immune-boosters, February 16th, 2009 might have been the last day I ever got sick.
The Hedonic Case for Healthy Living
Many of life’s greatest pleasures are reserved only for the healthy. Life becomes far better (and longer) when you actively pursue these pleasures 🙂
You Never Need to Worry About Your Weight Again
Focus only on your health and trust nature to take care of the rest. You can be rightfully proud of your healthy body, regardless of what the scale says.
The 5 Levels of Empty-Calorie Detox
One step at a time: Awakening, Upgrading, Governing, Designing, and, for the truly committed among us, Abstaining.
The Social Cost of Empty Calories
Today’s post shows the true prices of your favorite sweet, fatty, and salty treats. Read if you dare 🙂
The 7 Ideas That Cured My Sugar Addiction Once and For All
If it seems impossible to let go of something so delicious, I’m happy to tell you that it’s easier than you think 🙂
How Many Different Types of Whole Food Did You Enjoy Today?
Health is complicated, and the amount of health advice out there can quickly become overwhelming.
But if you want to simplify health to one simple thing it would be whole food. Eating a wide variety of whole foods every day directly addresses our society’s greatest health challenge: We are overfed and undernourished.
So, if you want to simplify your health journey and benefit greatly from making only one change, design your diet to contain lots of whole foods. Today’s post shares how I manage to eat 40 different whole foods every day with only 10 minutes total prep time 🙂
How to Eat as Much as You Want and Never Get Fat
Weight loss is high on the New Year’s Resolution list for most of us. But what if we didn’t have to worry about that anymore? Wouldn’t it be awesome to be able to eat as much as our bodies naturally desire?
The good news is that this is possible! But there is a catch: You must cut out those addictive empty calories that are designed to short-circuit the body’s natural satiety response and make us overeat.
Today’s post gives the guidelines for such a whole-food diet. Follow these guidelines and you can eat as much as you feel like without ever getting fat 🙂
What 10 Years of Green Smoothies Taught Me About the Art of Healthy Eating
A decade of green smoothies! As a born-and-bred carnivore, that’s one milestone I never thought I’d reach. But here I am 10 years later, deeply attached to my daily green health cocktail and my 85% plant-based diet.
Today’s article shares the story behind this special health habit. It also describes how learning to integrate a daily green smoothie into my life taught me the broader art of effortless healthy eating.
The key is to make sure that eating healthy food is both pleasurable and highly practical. And, contrary to popular belief, this is quite easily done 🙂
Give Karma a Helping Hand: How to Leverage Your Charitable Donations to Build Better Habits
We all know the recipe for a long and prosperous life: eat healthy food, exercise, work hard, ignore digital distractions, be kind to others, etc. The problem is just getting ourselves to do all these things day after day.
Today’s article presents a great technique for overcoming this challenge. Basically, you enter into an agreement with yourself to donate a certain amount of money to charity every time you engage in self-sabotage.
Such a charitable donations contract is a fantastic tool for quelling bad habits and growing good ones. And the best thing is that you cannot fail! If you go off track once in a while, you’ll be supporting some great causes 🙂
How Food Became Capitalism’s Greatest Failure
Capitalism is one of the key reasons behind the rapid advance of human civilization in recent decades. But it has a few serious flaws – most importantly, its discounting of any externalized costs.
I used to think that climate change was the biggest externalized cost ignored by capitalism, but now I think it’s addictive food. When tallying up how much this externality is costing society, we arrive at some frightening numbers!
Today’s article explains how capitalism has incentivised the food industry to design foods for maximum addiction, creating our global obesity and degenerative disease epidemics. It also introduces a method we can all use to remove these terribly twisted incentives from our own lives.
Low-Fat, Low-Carb, Vegan, Carnivore — The Unnecessary Extremes of Dieting
The great modern weight-loss struggle drives many people to the extremes of dieting. These approaches can easily do more harm than good relative to a balanced diet of whole foods.
Today’s post reviews several popular extreme diets, highlighting the irony that many foods that are staples in some diets are banned in others.
In addition, we touch on the primary reason for the global obesity epidemic: the economic incentive for food companies to make foods as addictive as possible. Without protecting yourself against this fundamental driver, all these extreme diets are doomed to fail.
3 Delicious Recipes That Make a Little Meat Go a Long Way
Minimizing meat consumption is one of the best things we can do for the environment and animal welfare. Here are 3 (+1) great recipes that help me to get maximum enjoyment from minimal meat consumption.
In addition, these recipes are highly practical since they can be made in bulk and frozen. This requires as little as 5 minutes of preparation per meal. Tasty, healthy, practical, and environmentally friendly – the perfect meal 🙂
The Ethically Conscious Meat Lover’s Dilemma and How to Solve It
Meat presents a tough ethical dilemma. On the one hand, it’s truly delicious and supplies high-grade proteins and several other nutrients that are difficult to get from plant-based sources. But on the other, it comes with a wide array of environmental and animal welfare concerns.
My solution to this dilemma is called the “meat as a vegetable dressing” philosophy. Here, meat is never served as a main dish. Instead, it’s strategically used to make vegetables delicious. I’ve successfully used this philosophy to restrict my meat consumption below 5% of my total calorie intake without having to sacrifice any culinary enjoyment.
It’s highly recommended! Today’s article can get you started 🙂
A New Dose of Motivation for Building Your Lifelong Healthy Diet
Today marks the beginning of the third chapter in the HHWPS project: Diet & Nutrition. We start at the foundation of this project by outlining just how much your healthy diet can mean for the world.
Indeed, nourishing your body with a healthy diet can directly address the world’s greatest injustice, mitigate climate change and other serious environmental challenges, improve our shocking animal welfare record, strengthen our welfare systems, and help set a new healthier societal standard.
Understanding all this also creates a lovely natural motivation for improving the quality of your diet. It’s a win-win if ever I’ve seen one 🙂
Are You a Skilled Sleeper?
Our final article in this chapter will put your sleep skills to the test. Sleep is such a critical life skill that your performance in this test should be quite closely related to your performance in life.
We start with two simple questions to determine whether you’re handicapping yourself with chronic sleep deprivation.
Then, we move on to a longer list of questions to test whether you’re giving your body and mind the sleep opportunity they deserve. Your scores in this test will clearly indicate the areas where you have the most opportunity for further improvement.
A 5-Part Blueprint for Sound Sleep
The world still badly undervalues the importance of sleep. Hence, anyone who achieves sleep mastery will enjoy a large and lasting advantage in our sleep-deprived world.
Today’s post presents the sleep blueprint I put together over several years of research and experimentation. This blueprint helps me wake up naturally around 5 a.m. every morning with enough energy and motivation to maintain my 70-hour workweeks indefinitely.
If you want to build the life of your dreams, sleep mastery must be your foundation.
My Data-Driven Review of Classic Sleep Advice
The world is slowly accepting the fact that sleep is the foundation of human health and performance. And this paradigm shift is filling the internet with sleep advice. But there’s a problem: very little of this advice comes with any indication of how well it actually works.
Today’s article crunches the numbers to rank several classic pieces of sleep advice, revealing which ones should be prioritized.
Return of the Siesta: My Surprisingly Successful Afternoon Napping Experiment
Do you often feel sluggish in the afternoon? You know – that state where your productivity evaporates, and you become much more susceptible to distractions and unhealthy indulgences. You do? Well, so do I (and the rest of the world).
Your body is trying to tell you something: Take a nap!
Yes, the siesta is the most natural human sleep pattern, but it’s totally incompatible with the daily 9-5 grind. Luckily, asynchronous remote work has arrived to restore this privilege to many of us. If this opportunity comes to you, I strongly recommend you take it!
It’s Time to Ditch Your Alarm Clock
Sleep is foundational to human health and productivity. And yet, the world remains chronically sleep deprived. Ironically, sleep is frequently sacrificed for the sake of productivity, achieving exactly the opposite of the desired outcome.
There’s a simple way to test whether you’re handicapping yourself through chronic sleep deprivation: whether or not you need an alarm clock to wake up. If you do, I’m afraid you’re sleep deprived by definition because your brain is frequently yanked out of sleep before it’s ready to awaken.
Today’s article discusses ways to return to a natural sleep pattern where your mind gets to wake up when it’s had its fill of regenerative sleep 🙂
The Morning Routine that Emerged After 5 Years of Experimentation
My handcrafted and choreographed morning routine is one of the best investments I’ve ever made. Every morning, it gives me a big boost in health, productivity, and energy, and it will continue to do so for the rest of my life 🙂
Today’s article shares all the steps involved. It also breaks down the time-commitment to show that my routine actually saves more time than it takes.
Development of a lifelong morning routine is a one-time investment. The earlier you make it, the better the returns. I cannot recommend it highly enough!
Let Me Scare You to Sleep
I used to think of sleep as wasted time that must be limited to get more out of life. Then, over the years, I learned of the many health and performance benefits of sleep, gradually establishing it as a priority in my life.
But there was much more to learn. It was only after I read Matthew Walker’s landmark book on sleep science that it finally sank in: Sleep is not just important for good health and performance – it’s the foundation. Today’s post summarizes all the things that can go wrong when this foundation is poorly maintained.
The Complete Guide to Morning Mastery [Infographic Included]
What is the best possible thing you can do with two hours of your life? In my view, it is to build the perfect morning routine. This investment can boost your health, productivity, relationships, creativity, and energy for the rest of your life, paying back your 2-hour investment thousands of times over.
Today’s post lays out the path to a handcrafted and choreographed morning routine that can last a lifetime. Make this investment. You’ll struggle to find a better one 🙂
How to Graph Your Way to Success
Measuring something is a great way to get more of it. So, how about measuring personal growth? It’s a nice idea, but personal growth is complicated, and measuring it can be difficult and time-consuming.
Today’s post shares a way to track your growth in as little as one minute per day. This great habit will keep you on your growth path and help you get to know yourself a whole lot better.
An Inflexible Guy’s Favorite Yoga Poses
Yoga is an excellent option for daily morning exercise. It’s highly convenient, very healthy, and does not require working up a big sweat.
But yoga can appear a little intimidating if you’re not blessed with the flexibility of a ragdoll. That’s why today’s post shares some fun yoga poses that promise user satisfaction, whether you’re flexible or not 🙂
5 Fun Ways to Move Your Body in the Morning
It’s hard to find time for exercise in our busy lives. That’s why the early morning, before the world starts demanding our focus, is such a great time to move. And as a bonus, this movement improves wakefulness, energy, and mood, allowing us to get considerably more out of the rest of the day!
This article shares 5 modes of morning movement that are permanently integrated in my morning routine. Making some of these movements part of your life can greatly enhance the rest of your (substantially longer) life 🙂
Save the World by Building a Life You Truly Love Living
We all know there are many serious problems in the world. And fixing these problems will require great sacrifice from all of us. Or will it?
Today’s post presents the concept of Life Efficiency: an idea that can address all the major problems threatening our society today without having to sacrifice any of our health and happiness. In fact, the wellbeing of anyone implementing this idea should improve considerably. Yes indeed, you can help save the world by building a life you truly love loving 🙂
Forget Affirmations — It’s Time to Draft Your Personal Constitution
Affirmations: That good old self-help strategy where you repeatedly tell yourself positive things and watch them become reality. It’s a nice idea, the only problem is that it rarely works.
Today’s post presents an approach that can achieve the desired behavioral change with a much higher success rate. A well-formulated personal constitution will gradually shape you into your best self so that you do the right things, not because you’re forcing yourself, but simply because of who you are 🙂
10 Lifechanging Insights from Reading 10 Minutes per Day
The great wealth of wisdom in books is one of the greatest privileges of our modern world. Habitually absorbing and applying this wisdom is key to a happy, healthy, wealthy, productive, and sustainable life.
Today’s article shares the lifechanging insights I gained from reading a mere 10 minutes per day as part of my morning routine. After this experience, I think that this might just be the most important habit anyone can establish!
The Complete Guide to Planning Your Day with Google Tasks
In our complex modern world, having a good system to keep your life organized is a must. Today’s post shares the daily planning system that emerged as the best solution for me after years of trial and error.
This system is particularly valuable for people who spend lots of time on their computers and believe in the power of consistently doing the right things. If that’s you, read on 🙂
The Ideal Breakfast: 16 Whole Ingredients, 2 Minutes Prep Time, 1 Fine Culinary Experience
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Perfecting this vital daily habit makes it much easier to line up a long streak of great mornings, leading to a long streak of great days, as required for a great life.
Today’s post shares a breakfast that ticks all the right boxes: healthy, tasty, practical, and economical. Take a look to make sure you start every day right.
How to be Awake in the Morning and Sleepy at Night
Do you struggle to get up in the morning and fall asleep at night? Chances are that you’re living with a deeply confused circadian rhythm. Today’s post shares three steps to fix this problem that hampers the lives of so many people.
How to Build a Morning Routine that Lasts a Lifetime
Welcome to the first regular post of Season 2! This season will span over 2 full years and feature one beautifully illustrated post per week.
As in Season 1, we start with the morning, that magical time when you set your direction for the rest of the day. A good routine can point you the right way, but establishing that precious morning habit is tough. Today’s post shares the three steps that will get you through this awkward habit formation phase.
The Powerful Purpose Behind this Blog
This is a blog about the art of consistently doing the right things in life. We all have a pretty good idea of what those right things are, but all too few manage to do them consistently.
Getting better control over your body and mind can really elevate your life, but there’s also a bigger purpose: building a sustainable and equitable society. To illustrate, this post gives all the details on how efficient living can literally save the world 🙂
Season 1 Summary: Life Efficiency
And just like that, we’ve reached the final post of Season 1. It’s fitting that life efficiency should have the final say. In my mind, there is no more important concept in the world today. Life efficiency can address our environmental and social challenges while greatly improving the lives of those who practice it. Today’s post summarizes how this works.
Season 1 Summary: Relationships
Humans have ascended to the level of god species on planet Earth thanks to our ability to cooperate. We will need all of our social skills to make a success of the 21st century. To assist in this noble quest, today’s post summarizes the key relationship insights from the Supermorning series, including bucket filling, personal relationships, professional relationships, and communication.
Season 1 Summary: Productivity
Making meaningful contributions to society is a prerequisite for high life satisfaction. And the right productivity toolset can make these contributions flow much more naturally. The productivity chapter of Supermorning was all about assembling this toolset.
Season 1 Summary: Technology
Technology has transformed humanity into the god species of planet Earth. It has enhanced our lives in many ways, but it has also created serious problems. In other words, our technology is a double edged sword, one that continually gets sharper on both sides. This chapter of Supermorning was all about learning to wield this increasingly powerful weapon with wisdom and grace.
Season 1 Summary: Wealth
The desire for wealth makes the world go round. But few people fully understand what wealth is or how to transform it into life satisfaction. Today’s post summarizes some key insights about building wealth, both in the form of tangible and intangible assets. Then we look at the art of turning wealth into liberty as required for high life satisfaction.
Season 1 Summary: Mental Health
No discussion about health is complete without a serious look at mental health. Today’s post summarizes the best insights from the Supermorning series regarding short-term stress reduction, permanent avoidance of chronic stress, and lasting happiness.
Season 1 Summary: Fitness
It’s tough to stay fit in our modern world so meticulously designed for stagnation. But lifelong healthy fitness levels are possible. All we need is an intelligently designed environment that makes movement automatic. Today’s post summarizes the best automatic fitness tips we covered over the past year.
Season 1 Summary: Nutrition
Healthy eating is a constant struggle for most. We all have a decent idea of what we should and shouldn’t eat. We all know the consequences of not following through. And yet, most of us fail to put the right stuff in our bodies day after day. The nutrition chapter of Supermorning was written to address this problem once and for all by making healthy eating fully automatic, default behavior.
Season 1 Summary: Accelerated Evolution
The second Supermorning chapter dealt with our inability to consistently do what we know is right and not do what we know is wrong. It offered some explanation for this mysterious inconsistency along with several useful tools for improvement.
Season 1 Summary: Morning Routine
Over the final two weeks of Season 1, we’ll revisit the 10 main topics discussed over the past year. These posts are written as convenient summaries of the most important insights we uncovered. First up: morning routine.
Recap: Sustainability through Life Efficiency
Today’s final recap post explains why life efficiency is such an incredibly attractive sustainability solution. Our chances of creating a sustainable and equitable global society will increase greatly if more people can realize one simple thing: sustainable living is not some great sacrifice or self-deprivation: it’s a guiding light towards a happy, healthy, wealthy, and productive life.
Thank You for Your Service
And so we come to the last regular Supermorning post of the season. Today, I just want to say thank you to everyone who made an effort to improve their life efficiency over the past year. Your planet and your future self thank you too 🙂
How Evolved are You?
Most of our natural emotions are poorly suited to modern life – hence all the irrational self- and society-destructive behavior we see in the world today. If we are to build a sustainable an equitable global society, we need to evolve beyond these outdated emotional drives. Today’s post discusses the two steps in this process: forward-thinking emotions and global-thinking emotions. The future of our planet depends on how quickly we can take these two steps.
Transforming Society through Life Efficiency
Improved life efficiency can bring about the rapid changes our society needs to build a sustainable and equitable future. Today’s post describes how the ongoing evolution in mindset and culture around the world can elevate life efficiency to the top of our list of sustainable development tools. Those who build an efficiently lifestyle now will benefit disproportionately from these trends.
Redefining Human Progress
Today’s post uses just a little bit of math to identify the three main levers at our disposal to keep improving the human condition without destroying our planet: clean energy, energy efficiency, and life efficiency. The latter is generally neglected, but may well be the most important of them all. Capitalizing on this lever requires a simple and rather obvious redefinition of human progress.
Recap: Your Ecological Footprint
Globally, the top 10% richest people are responsible for half of ecological damages. And those damages are experienced disproportionately by the poor. Furthermore, the biggest factor determining whether you are rich or poor is the lottery of birth (i.e., pure luck). Thus, those living in material comfort have a clear moral obligation to shrink their ecological footprint. Today’s post summarizes the best ways to get this done.
The Footprints of our Stuff
The last time you moved to a new home probably showed you just how much stuff the modern human owns. This is a serious ecological problem, especially if much of this stuff has a high turnover rate. Today’s post outlines three key ways to reduce the footprint your stuff leaves on our environment: Creativity, Minimalism, and Quality.
Cars, Planes, and Ecological Strains
The next important component of your ecological footprint is related to personal transportation. Single-person-in-car easily takes the “most environmentally destructive” prize. Air travel is also very damaging due to factors other than direct CO2 emissions. Public transport scores better, especially trains. But the clear winners remain biking, walking, and telecommuting.
Building a Sustainable Home
Your home has a large impact on the environment. Luckily, with the right prioritization, this impact can be cut substantially. Today’s post discusses the three most important elements in your home footprint: 1) the size and type of your home, 2) temperature control, and 3) large appliance efficiency. This is not exactly riveting stuff, but it remains super-important for saving the world.
Studying Your Foodprint
This week, we’ll be getting practical about shrinking our ecological footprints. Let’s start with a big one: food. Shifting to a plant-dominated diet is the first and most important step, although smart use of a small amount of animal products is still recommended. Eating less is the next most important factor, followed by reduced medical costs and local food with minimal packaging.
Recap: Saving the World
The foundation of this blog is that sustainable living is also happy, healthy, wealthy and productive living. Hence, we can save the world by building better lives for ourselves. Today’s post summarizes this argument from the viewpoints of health, wealth and creativity.
Save the World by Embracing Your Creativity
Humans are creative creatures. We must create and contribute to be happy. Creation also contributes to sustainability in two ways: 1) it affords less time and energy for self- and planet-destructive consumption, and 2) it yields plenty of creative solutions for building a sustainable society. So, embrace your creativity! It’s another great pathway to genuine fulfillment that just so happens to help save the world.
Save the World by Building Your Wealth
Saving and investing money is a great way to save the planet. Not only does it reduce your ecological footprint, but your investments also stimulate the innovation required to build a better tomorrow. And the best thing is that less spending can get you to the top of Maslow’s pyramid of human needs much faster than more spending. Hence, financial responsibility is another great way of saving the world by building a better life.
Save the World by Looking After Yourself
We all want to be fit and healthy, but few manage to pull it off. There are just too many unhealthy temptations out there. So, if you need more motivation to build yourself an environment guaranteeing lifelong health and fitness, why not add saving the world as another motivator? A healthy lifestyle literally saves lives. If you own one, you can be rightfully proud 🙂
Why You Should Care About the Environment
The final Supermorning chapter will zoom in on the concept of life efficiency: deriving more health and happiness from less consumption. Today’s post kicks us off by outlining why this is such a critically important idea. In short, excessive material consumption is compromising the free planetary services that allow us to sustain 8 billion humans on planet Earth. If nature decides to stop delivering these free services, our quality of life will plummet.
Recap: Verbal Communication
Over this final week of Supermorning Relationships, we talked about communication. We all know that relationships benefit from better communication. What is less well understood is that “better communication” does not necessarily mean “more talking.” Today’s post summarizes the importance of open body language, a positive and engaging voice tone, and more frugal use of words.
Words: Less is More
When having any conversation, words are less important than body language and voice tone. Still, most of us think that more words is the key to improved communication. This is a crucial error. Today’s post shows why talking less is a much better strategy than talking more when you want others to like you and take your words seriously.
Voice Tone: More than Words
After body language, the next most important element in verbal communication is voice tone. It’s the emotional filter that determines whether your words will have the intended effect on your listeners. Today’s post discusses how voice tone can be used to control your own emotional state and maximize the impact of your message.
Body Language: The Core of Communication
Open body language is vital for efficient verbal communication. If one or both parties display defensive body language, the words exchanged quickly become worthless or even counterproductive. Learning to open your own and others’ body language is an invaluable communication skill.
Communication: Words, Voice, and Body
Our final week in the Relationships chapter deals with communication. In particular, the great importance of body language and voice tone. Today’s post explains why these elements are more important than the words we use. If they’re not right, our words quickly become useless or even harmful.
Recap: Professional Relationships
Getting something meaningful done in today’s world requires multiple complementary skill sets. In other words, it requires teamwork. This week’s posts discussed four key principles behind the professional relationships that create good teams: win-win more relationships, effective collaboration, learning from others, and effective networking.
Some Networking Tips
Not many of us enjoy making small talk with strangers at networking events. If you do, this could be your superpower. Cherish it. But if you don’t, there are other ways to build your network. Today’s post covers a couple of useful networking tips, both for natural networkers and not-so-natural networkers.