Sleep is Critical

How many hours of sleep are you getting?

How much of that is quality sleeping?

Researchers tell us that a lack of sleep is associated with all kinds of ailments — flu and other infections, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, even cancer.

“There are so many,” says Reena Mehra, medical director of the adult sleep laboratory at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. “And I think one of the biggest, and the one that’s received the most press, in the increase in weight gain.”

Read the full article here.

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he falls, at least falls while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
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— Theodore Roosevelt, “Man in the Arena”.

Setbacks in achieving your goals are to be expected. Don’t let the naysayers and doubters stop you from getting back up, dusting yourself off and trying again.

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Focus on Progress

To get yourself and your team off to a good start for the new year, focus on progress. Our research discovered that fostering progress in meaningful work is the most important way to keep people highly engaged at work — even if that progress is a “small win.”

We call this phenomenon the progress principle; it works because people want to feel that they are contributing to something that matters. The new year presents a great opportunity for managers to put the progress principle into action.

From Start the New Year With Progress, at Harvard Business Review.

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“ Action is the foundational key to all success.
—  Pablo Picasso
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“ People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
—  Karl Lagerfeld
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“ So put the work in and believe in yourself, believe in your ability to change yourself, if not the world, because changing the world does actually start with changing yourself. I think any individual can make a difference if they apply themselves and I think to accept a defeatist “Well what are you going to do?” is a sure way of guaranteeing that you won’t change anything, that you won’t achieve anything
— Alan Moore, Writer
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Bug Fix Update

Version 1.23 of Choice by Choice is now on the App Store, as a free upgrade.

It fixes a bug under iOS 5 that caused the app to crash when deleting goals.

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I saw this advert posted up in the second week of January (in London, UK). To everyone who has “Eat Healthily” as one of their New Year’s Resolutions or goals, this advert more than any other sums up how the fast food industry views you, and their customers. They want you to fail. And they want you to quit at the first point of failure. You shouldn’t view your resolutions as an all or nothing proposition. Setbacks and failures are going to happen - the trick is to persevere regardless.

I saw this advert posted up in the second week of January (in London, UK).

To everyone who has “Eat Healthily” as one of their New Year’s Resolutions or goals, this advert more than any other sums up how the fast food industry views you, and their customers.

They want you to fail. And they want you to quit at the first point of failure.

You shouldn’t view your resolutions as an all or nothing proposition. Setbacks and failures are going to happen - the trick is to persevere regardless.

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New Years Resolutions

Are you going to stick with them this time - or give up at the first hurdle or failure?

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Quicksilver is a great - albeit no longer supported - Mac application. I only found out about it’s awesome About screen today.

Quicksilver is a great - albeit no longer supported - Mac application.

I only found out about it’s awesome About screen today.

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