Rock Your Resolution Giveaway, Week 2
If you're joining us late, this post is part of a giveaway contest, which it's not to late to join. But more importantly, it's intended to be a source of mutual support for those of us trying to acquire some shiny new healthy habits in 2013. Today's theme?
Find the Joy!
And sure, there's always a bit of suck-it-up self discipline involved in forming a new habit. If it were totally easy and effortless to make changes, why the hell would we have waited so long?
If broccoli tasted like fresh baked cookies, and if lifting weights felt like a lovely trip to your favorite spa for a massage, and if we w...
Source: Cranky Fitness - January 9, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Crabby McSlacker Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm - Managing Snow
We had a foot of snow last week and got our first experience with managing significant snow and ice on the farm.Our previous home had a 30 foot driveway, which I shoveled by hand during and after each snow fall.The farm has a quarter mile entry and 15 acres that need paths to support feeding/watering/animal management.We maintain 4 cords of oak/maple/cedar stacked neatly in wood racks we designed (next week's Thursday post will be about managing wood) and we need paths between our wood processing area and the forest.Finally there are about a mile of walking paths that we use for exercising the Great Pyrenees and for managi...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - January 3, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
88 Simple New Year’s Resolutions that Sneakily Change Your Life
Don't you just hate New Year's Day?Even if you consider yourself a mostly positive person, I can bet that a part of you secretly despises this time of the year and all the baggage it brings along.I know I do.Another year gone by with so little to show for.Another new one starting with the same old list of stale goals and rusted dreams.Who has the motivation to even consider starting something new, much less "resolving" to do it every day?Does that mean you should give up making New Year’s resolutions all together?Far from it.As it turns out, there’s a sneakier way to get yourself to make the change you like. It’s a â...
Source: Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life - January 1, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: DLM Writers Source Type: blogs
Yales Goes With iPad
I remember the note service in medical school, and it was a royal pain in the butt. All those notes, and after a few weeks, there were piles of paper everywhere, and the night before the test you would realize you were missing some transcript. So then I got organized, and put them in these humongous binders, that before too long were about to explode.
Now Yale is taking a new approach. They are using an iPad, and a top of the line, 32 GB 3G with a Bluetooth keyboard at that. Add in that they can now load a full year worth of notes, and I am seriously sold at this point.
Just don't tell me it is a computer...
Gizmodo...
Source: Doc To Doc - August 31, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: digitaldoc Source Type: blogs
Review - The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
On a never ending flight from Lisbon back to San Francisco I finished reading the latest book from Nicholas Carr: "The Shallows - What the Internet is doing to our brains". The book is a very extended version of an article Carr wrote a few years ago enteitled "Is Google Making us stupid" that can be read online. If you like that article you will probably find the book interesting as well.
In the book (and article) Carr tries to convince the reader that the internet is reducing our capacity to read deeply. He acknowledges that there is no turning back to a world without the internet and he does not offe...
Source: Public Rambling - July 15, 2010 Category: Bioinformaticians Tags: books review Source Type: blogs
My (Most Excellent) Life as a Pancreas
Funny what you find when you clean out your closets. As I was sorting through some of the piles of diabetes-related materials in my office last week, I uncovered this cheery-looking little book called "My Life as a Pancreas" by Priscilla Call Esse... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - May 6, 2010 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Amy Tenderich Source Type: blogs
