Move:
• Sandbags. You can buy them on Amazon, Onnit, or go big and get your equipment from Rogue. There are several tutorials online with which exercises to do. But you can get a great workout by just picking up a sandbag and doing human things.
• Bend over and pick it up, hug it and squat with it, carry it around, lift it over your head, throw it around the basement, or check out some of these recommendations. If you don’t want to spend the $ on it, pick up something heavy around the house, like a child. It is very fun for them.
Rest:
• It is never wise to consume more than a few drinks in one night, but this post from MDA does give excellent tips on preparation, detox, and mitigating damage of New Year’s Eve partying. He cites several articles.
• Other than some of the interesting supplements, the general advice can’t go wrong: get plenty of sleep, fill your body with healthy fuel, drink plenty of water, exercise the next morning. Needless to say, Magnesium is part of the plan.
Nutrition:
• Check out this lowish carb pasta, Carba-nada. I haven’t seen it in stores but it may be around town. Can order from amazon. Loaded with protein! Thanks Will and Erika Hargis for the recommendation.
Wisdom:
• This post is brief and full of wisdom on how to become an autodidact. Thomas Bevan urges you to take on the responsibility of teaching yourself, but he also urges you to reflect deeply on who you are and what you want to do with your life. Even if you are already in the field of medicine, you still have countless roads you can take for a career.
• Many pearls: read a lot; keep notes on what you read; “argue” with books – really interact with what you are reading, whether fiction or nonfiction; follow the path of what you are good at, what you had passion for as a child.
Community:
• Brief article worth readingin the holiday season about how to make your time (and therefore life) more meaningful. Emma Young covers a study about perception of time.
• The idea is that time seems to flow faster for us as we age due to “chunking.” For example, because we have had many holiday seasons in our lives, this year could be condensed in memory as “Christmas 2018,” instead of: your nephew’s first Christmas, where you surprised your husband with tickets to a big game, and your uncle Steve got lost on his way to your house, and you were on call on Christmas but miraculously got to stay home most of the day.
• If we are mindful and notice even small things in each day, and we have some gratitude for them, time literally goes by more slowly. Happiness research pioneer Martin Seligman calls this savoring. Try it the rest of this week.
Quote:
While you can’t control your experiences, you can control your explanations.
– Martin Seligman
