- Prepared for the worst (yes David Attenborough will die one day)
- Know your enemy! what is neoliberalism, best 2016 comebacks
- Make a new years resolution
- Stick to your new years resolution (hardest challenge yet)
- Read every day (top articles of 2016)
- Always check the evidence and for gods sake don't listen to fake news
Wednesday, 28 December 2016
Don't Let 2016 Get You Down!
Sunday, 28 February 2016
Nutrition 101: Dr Gregers annual nutrition summaries, How Not To Die
His talks are absolutely brilliant and eye-opening, The common theme circles around the benefits of a plant-based diet and how it can reverse and be used in the prevention of many diseases. (heart disease and diabetes just to name a couple.)
I think physicians and future doctors everywhere should watch his videos.
Here are the videos for the annual talks below:
Saturday, 16 January 2016
New year resolutions
People who explicitly make resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than people who don't explicitly make resolutions
That is even if only 8% actually achieve their goals
This site has all the facts: http://www.statisticbrain.com/new-years-resolution-statistics/
Prof Wiseman's top 10 tips to achieving your New Year's resolution:
1. Make only one resolution. Your chances of success are greater when you channel energy into changing just one aspect of your behaviour.
2. Don’t wait until New Year’s Eve to think about your resolution and instead take some time out a few days before and reflect upon what you really want to achieve.
3. Avoid previous resolutions. Deciding to revisit a past resolution sets you up for frustration and disappointment.
4. Don’t run with the crowd and go with the usual resolutions. Instead think about what you really want out of life.
5. Break your goal into a series of steps, focusing on creating sub-goals that are concrete, measurable and time-based.
6. Tell your friends and family about your goals. You're more likely to get support and want to avoid failure.
7. Regularly remind yourself of the benefits associated with achieving your goals by creating a checklist of how life would be better once you obtain your aim.
8. Give yourself a small reward whenever you achieve a sub-goal, thus maintaining motivation and a sense of progress.
9. Make your plans and progress concrete by keeping a handwritten journal, completing a computer spreadsheet or covering a notice board with graphs or pictures.
10. Expect to revert to your old habits from time to time. Treat any failure as a temporary setback rather than a reason to give up altogether.