5 Ways to Keep Your Resolutions This Year
 

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Today, I’m so excited to share with you five impactful ways to keep your resolutions this year. This is really critical, because the average individual who sets a resolution, and even a goal throughout the year, tend to have some sort of failure or fall-off of the follow-through. These five tips are going to help you be more successful, and ultimately achieve those goals so you optimize your wellness and your experience with this New Year’s resolution.

Set a Specific Goal

All right, so tip number one is to get specific, and it goes beyond just having a goal. It is getting really specific with that goal itself. I think what I see in a lot of my patients is that a lot of their goals are not specific enough. For instance, “I want to lose weight this year.” That’s great, but let’s quantify it. One, I always ask is it quantifiable and two, is it achievable?

For instance, maybe some of your goals might require a certain amount of money, and maybe you don’t have that budgeted in this coming year. That’s okay. Maybe you want to push that off to the following year and maybe set the baby-step goal of saving up money for next year’s goal. Those are really two key questions – is it achievable and is it quantifiable?

When we are focusing on quantifiable goals, it’s really, really important to zero in on specifics. For instance, “losing weight” versus “I want to lose 10 pounds,” “I want to lose four inches in my waist,” “I want to bench press X amount of pounds,” “I want to achieve an ability to run a fitness course or some CrossFit program by X date.” Then also, I have a lot of patients that want to have lowered, or balanced, laboratory results. I recommend quantifying that as well. If it’s lowering your blood pressure, lowering your cholesterol, get specific and quantify it.

Create A Plan For Your Goal

Now, number two is the key factor here – planning the goal. You set a very specific, quantifiable, achievable goal. Now we need to plan for it. And planning, I always ask the five Ws. What is it? What is the goal? Actually, this isn’t a W, but there are five questions:

  1. What is it?
  2. How do you do it? How can it be achieved? What steps are involved?
  3. What do you need? What materials? What resources? What equipment might you need? What supplements or food menu items do you need?
  4. When do you do it? When is this occurring, this goal? How much time are you allocating, or do you need to allocate, on a daily, weekly, monthly basis, to focus on achieving your resolution?
  5. Why are you doing this? What are your motivations?

Understand Your “Why”

I want to go back to some of my additional resources that I’ve mentioned. I really like for folks to vision board, to create an actual, quantifiable list that showcases and demonstrates what those goals are. In vision boarding, creative visualization, is really critical in helping support the why. If we might be looking to save money this year, maybe the why is, “We want to go on a trip.” If we’re looking to lose weight, the why is maybe, “I have so-and-so’s wedding,” or “I am looking to achieve X fitness goal.”

Understanding the why is really important when you get to those barriers of self-doubt, maybe you hit a plateau, maybe this is a significant change and you need that additional motivation. The why is something you can always come back to and it is your purpose and it’s your power, personal power, that you can tap into that gets you there. It gets you in the right mind space to achieve the physical part of your goal.

Keep Track in a Journal

Also, in incorporating planning your goals, I like to recommend folks grab a specific notebook and have that be your either resolution journal or just the journal that you keep that’s specific to these goals, or this goal. To begin with a list, so answer those five questions. Maybe on each page, the first pages, you list on the first page what the goal or goals are. Page two, you write how am I doing it or these. You basically identify lists that might identify all those factors. What do you need? Are there any barriers that you need to be aware of? Anticipating things that might prevent you from achieving success or might be in the past, would’ve prevented you from moving forward with the success of your goal.

Being aware of all of those. Pros and cons lists are very common. Even I have had patients when we’re going through this process, I’ll have them even identify budgets for some of those goals. Some fitness goals do require additional expenses and additional time. All of that is really critical to be aware of, to identify, to chart out, and to list.

Planning, honestly, preparation and planning is really critical. If you’re not prepared for some of the hurdles or roadblocks that might come your way, it tends to be a situation where that is one of the things that’s really where people fall and they fail. I really wanted you to focus on that plan, but really zeroing in on the why. The why are you doing this. Maybe it’s for your kids. You want to be healthy so you’re around to see your kids grow up, your grandkids, to optimize retirement. Whatever it is.

Start Small for Better Success

Number three, this is really important. Start small. I have found that when my patients, and even myself, when I have set new year’s resolutions or any type of life goal, and it’s drastic, it’s really big, in some cases it’s so overwhelming that I don’t get started. With a lot of my patients, their health and fitness related goals can be so drastic. Unfortunately, there can be deprivation. Sometimes it’s caloric deprivation. Sometimes it’s sleep deprivation. Sometimes it is muscular. Just the state of their muscles are not ready yet.

Start small. Slow and steady wins this race. The Turtle and the Hare, I’ve read that story to Gabriel a thousand times, my six-year-old son. You want to be the turtle when it comes to you achieving your resolutions and your goals. The key here, turtles, slow and steady, equals sustainability. It becomes habitual. What we see is that when you create these changes and you are looking at achieving your goals and you track them and you get really zeroed in on that focus, and you’re doing this every day, when you get to the 28 days, you’ve now created a habitual lifestyle change. The habituality is sustainable. It allows you to continue to move forward and achieve those goals. Ultimately, you’ll have greater success. Start small and also, if you need to, break it out into sizeable sections.

Set Reminders for Yourself

Number four is really critical. We need daily reminders. We need daily reminders of why we’re doing this. Going back to the goal planning, why. What’s your why?

In-Your-Face Post-It Notes

Sometimes it’s as simple as putting on… I love post-it notes, friends. I love post-it notes. Make sure you put post-it notes on your list of items to grab this season because you can use post-it notes in really impactful ways as daily reminders.

I have found that when I, and I recommend to patients when they write the goal, or the activity, or the tasks that they have on their resolution list, that if they post it on the mirror where they brush their teeth in the morning and the evening. They post it in their car – dashboard’s really impactful. They also put it on their computer and laptop or whatever workspace they have. That becomes really great because you’re constantly looking at that when you’re brushing your teeth, you can now go into a meditative, kind of goal-focused state, where you’re focused on, “Okay, what’s my why? I’m doing this for X, Y, and Z. I need to do X, Y, and Z.” It’s on your mind first thing you when you wake up. It’s on your mind the last thing on your mind before you go to bed. That really helps incorporate that focus. Post-its are great to use.

Use Phone Apps, Vision Boards, and Journaling

Phone apps are great. I’ve detailed that as well, some information for you guys, as well as vision boards. Use the vision boards. You can post those at work and actually we used to do this when I was in the corporate world, before I got into natural medicine. We would, as a company, we would have each individual create vision boards. We had a very metaphysical group vice president. We would do these like group effort vision boards. We’d have individual vision boards and then we’d present to our team and then we’d have an overall group vision board. I tell you what, we were highly successful when we were doing that. Also, consider journaling. Journaling can be very impactful. I love the five-minute daily journal that tends to be gratitude-oriented, but it also allows you to notate the goals that you achieved and tasks that you did to achieve those goals.

Set Realistic Expectations for Yourself

Five, last and final, is set realistic expectations for yourself. This becomes really impactful when we are looking at some of these big lifestyle changes. If you have never worked out or you haven’t trained for a marathon before, or whatever that goal might be, and it’s new, I want you to make sure you give yourself daily grace. It’s okay if you didn’t hit X, Y, and Z reps. It’s okay if you didn’t achieve all of the micronutrient density, or you skipped a keto day or whatever it might be. Patience with your body is going to be really critical in helping you achieve that goal. Our body time, especially in the health and fitness world, our body time does not operate on human time. Our body time is a lot slower. It takes months sometimes to realize some of these changes. Sometimes you just have to have faith that your body will achieve those goals. You might not see it. Kind of put aside the whole instant gratification and needing to see inches and the scale moving and really focus in on giving your body the grace and space to achieve these goals.

Resolution setting, goal-setting, is a process. It’s daily and it needs to be, again it’s sizable and achievable. It’s a behavioral change and behavioral changes do not happen overnight. It’s a process, and it will be a process that you encounter for the rest of your life. Especially if you are adding 80% greens and whole fresh food, or making a change in addressing heart disease, or trying to really support your body and your muscle mass so you reverse osteopenia or osteoporosis, or achieve a big goal, either financial or personal, just know slow and steady wins the race. Have faith in your body and give yourself grace.

Those are my five tips. I’m so excited to celebrate the new year with you. I know you are going to do it. Have faith in yourself. You deserve all the success in the world.


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3 Ways to Renew, Rejuvenate & Refocus for 2022
 

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Keeping Resolutions Fresh

Today, I want to share with you three ways for you to renew, rejuvenate, and invigorate your New Year’s resolutions. This is really critical because the average American New Year’s resolution-setter will usually fail within 10 days of New Year’s Day. These three tips will be very resourceful for you in deploying your New Year’s resolution for the long term.

Set Your Intention by Creating a Vision Board

So I’m very excited to share with you tip number one is to create a vision board, to create intention around your resolution. Now, when I say vision boarding, I want to detail what that means. That is creating either cutouts via magazines or posting a board up near where you work, and even in your car or places where you’re going to frequently see your, we call them, goal boards or vision boards. Essentially, you’re going to create images or write down words that magnify that goal. They symbolize what you are seeking to achieve, and they also set the right mindset and the intention, because where the mind goes, the body follows.

And with a lot of health-related New Year’s resolutions, we need to get the mind in the right frame of mind. We need to set your intentions so that you are going to be successful on this resolution journey. And that involves having a plan, having a roadmap, making sure you’re able to achieve the goals that you set with regard to your New Year’s resolution.

Now, there is an amazing book that is always my reference guide, and it is called Creative Visualization. It’s by an amazing author. Her name is, she has since passed, but her name is Shakti Gawain. And friends, she has a whole chapter about how to create vision boards and essentially to visualize, create that mindset, the intention that’s going to support and surround your goal and uplift it so that it is achievable.

So definitely check out Shakti Gawain’s book, Creative Visualization is amazing. For me personally, it was life-changing.

Who Is Your Accountability Partner?

All right, so tip number two, to rejuvenate and help you refocus this new year. I want you to seek out an accountability partner. This could be a person or a group that you can constantly, frequently, daily, weekly, throughout the month, check in on, because you are not an island and with any type of resolution, behavioral change, modification of a lifestyle, that we usually see with New Year’s resolutions, it requires support. And when you are anchored in supportive community – often community doing the same thing, setting the same goals – you’ll be surrounded by like-minded people with the same intention. So this is really critical.

I want to share with you a few additional resources that you might add to your accountability team. This might be a health coach. It might be a nutritionist. It might be a fitness instructor. It might be a therapist. It might be a doctor, anybody in the area of expertise. And this goes beyond just that accountability partner where you’re checking in and touching base with them, but they are individuals that will be able to give you tools, expert tools, to help you make your goals achievable. That creates that realization of the intention. They help align you, and then you have the support of individuals like yourself, who are engaging on this journey.

Now, one of the other things that I recommend is also seeking out groups, like Facebook groups tend to be very impactful, and I do want to provide one note of caution, is that I usually recommend seeking out like-minded individuals as your accountability partners, as well as a team of experts that can lead you towards that goal with tools and resources and expertise. Sometimes that might not be a family member, and that’s okay. Family members do… I think it is important that you tell your family members, your spouse, partner, your kids, even your colleagues, that you have this intention, but they might not be able and equipped with the right tools to help you succeed. So definitely be mindful of that.

Tools For Success

And third, so you want to grab your phone and I’m going to share with you my four technology apps that will help you have the most effective tools online to achieve your goals. And this is very broad in terms of the capacity of these tools, but I really like to pair up your intention with your accountability partners, that you’re gaining with expertise, but technology can bring that to the forefront on a daily basis.

A Popular Goal-Setting App with Reminders

So my first app that I love is an app called Strides, and that is something you find in Apple apps, as well as Android. And this is specifically directed at daily goals. It actually comes with a huge amount of recommendations. I think it has 4.8 stars in the Apple store, I just checked recently. And The New York Times has mentioned it to be one of the most creative, one of the most comprehensive, mind and goal-setting apps.

So it allows you amazing capacity and tools. You can set a daily routine. It gives you the checklist. So if you say my goal is to hydrate properly, drinking X amount of water, and I want to work out X amount of days. You have the ability in this app to track and to put in the days that you’re working out. So it’ll show up as your day. You have charts that you can view your progress. It gives you reminders, which are awesome because a lot of times our days go by and then we forget to drink water or to schedule the fitness routine, or exercise, or whatnot. The progress reports also are a form of accountability. And I just really love this app.

App to Track Your Daily Goal Achievements

My second app is a newer app. It’s called Way of Life. And Way of Life is really another tracking tool, but it gets really into intentional creation of lists and goals that you have. And that’s really critical because we need… For instance, in the app, you can have your daily goal is work out, drink water, if you’re doing things like saving money or setting certain additional goals, you can put those in there and it will allow you to see and record as you are achieving those. So, it’s a great reminder and our phones can be resourceful in this category.

App to Calm Your Mind and Reduce Stress

Another app that I have recommended forever is called Headspace, and Headspace is a very popular app that is focused on meditation. And so if you’re looking to calm your mind, reduce stress, if that’s one of the goals this year, Headspace is going to be very impactful.

I think across the board, everybody should be checking out and using Headspace as an app. They’re short and sweet meditations. And in my world, I need short and sweet, concise – 10, 15, 20 minutes. That’s all the time I have. And I have patients who will use Headspace to help them get into a calm state so they sleep better. That can be another tool. So, it is amazing for helping you achieve some of those health-related goals.

This Tool Helped 80% of Users Achieve Their Fitness Goal

And then my last and final is My Fitness Pal. That’s another app, and all of these you can find in Apple and Android. And this tends to be the app that you want to download if you’re looking at achieving fitness goals, or you’re looking at having weight loss as part of your New Year’s resolutions. I am excited to report to you that the individuals who have downloaded and actively use this app, My Fitness Pal, the individuals who’ve used it in the first week of either setting their goal intention or around New Year’s, 80% have achieved the weight loss and have successfully achieved the goals that they set for themselves from a fitness perspective. That’s really amazing. And they actually tout that through all of their users, they’ve had over 200 million pounds lost by folks using this app.

So those are four tools that I hope you’ll check out. And I just want to remind each and every one of you, a lot of my patients I see, they tend to set really lofty goals and success really comes down to what feels comfortable with you. If you think, oh my gosh, this is a stretch for a goal, that’s okay. And I’m going to share with you some additional tips in some of my future communication here, but I really want you to know that your goals are individual and they work for you. They don’t have to work for anybody else.

And so I want to encourage you to put yourself as a priority this coming year. You are worthy of this attention and you deserve success. So hats off to you. I hope you’ll consider these tips, and I’m really excited to hear on the other side of the new year, how things go for you. So keep me posted. Thank you and Happy New Year.


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10 Ways To Make Your Life Easier in 2022
 

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Today, I’m going to share with you 10 easy, easy ways to make your life simpler in the new year. This is really critical because we’re going to talk about how to automate your life and put it on autopilot. A lot of those daily, weekly, and monthly tasks that take time sometimes end up costing you more money and take up a lot of energetic space. One of the interesting things when I have started researching about automations for my own personal need to automate my life more, it is really crazy that, every day, the average individual makes 35,000 decisions. That’s a lot. And so if you can take off many of those really important decisions, like paying your bills and feeding your body and cleaning your home and all these other really key things, it will actually save you a ton of time and release a lot of the everyday stress that you experience in running your household and managing your life. So let’s dig into our 10 tips.

Number 1: Automate Your Banking

Number one is to set up autopay. This is auto banking. It can be auto payments with your bills. Really, really focus on all the bills and people you’re paying on a weekly, monthly basis, automate it as much as you can, because those automations also come with the ability to check off and get an e-bill. So you have less mail, less paper, and less chance or risk of losing a bill. Particularly medical bills fall into that category. Many clinics, you can have an auto bill set up where you pay your co-pay and even on the back end, they’ll charge you so that you don’t have to worry about a random bill coming in and getting lost in the mail. But that automation and mail actually takes up a lot mental clutter. So eliminating that will not only be great for your credit score and keep finances above board, but it just eases a lot of the financial stress that we all experience from time to time.

Number 2: Automate Your Home

Number two is to automate your home. This is where a lot of the Alexa and the auto set pre-settings that you can create with Wi-Fi and electronics in your home, security, all the different features like your coffee makers and your washing machines and your dishwashers, your lawn maintenance, all of the things that can be automated – look at making a list and either investing in time to set that up or plan on buying some of those more upgraded automation technology pieces to add to your air conditioner so you can preset. This is where I’m really excited because this is stuff I’ve researched a lot in the past, is there are amazing ways for you to save money by simply automating your thermostat.

So the temperature thermometer, the little piece that goes on your air conditioner and your heaters, if you guys have air conditioners, some folks live in climates where they still don’t have air conditioning. But if you have that, if you set up that smart home smart thermostat, you can actually change the settings throughout the day. You can change your setting when you are at home and when you’re away and when you’re back at home. You can have different settings for weekends. It’s really amazing. And the new home that we moved into here in Texas, while it’s not new, it’s very automated. And we’ve spent a lot of time learning these features. And I have found it saves us a lot time. And again, mind space is really critical. Just easing the stress, knowing things are automatically working and functioning without you having to take action which, again, leads to those 35,000 decisions that we make every day.

Number 3: Automate Your Grocery Shopping

Number three has to do with automating your groceries, your food shopping, the consumables that you are usually buying on a monthly basis, or sometimes many folks are buying every two weeks or weekly. I want to share with you the automation of grocery shopping is amazing when it comes down to time and money savings. One of the benefits, if you will, of the changes with the pandemic is that a lot of people switched to automating their grocery shopping. So that allows you to make sure that you’re consuming a lot of your staples. You can have preset lists that you just click on, stores like Target and all of the major grocery stores, and even some of the smaller natural stores, where you’re going to find more of your organic, healthier, fair, have grocery delivery services, grocery pickup services. And there are also online vendors where you can have set lists, grocery lists, grocery items that will be automatically created and either shipped to you or delivered to you.

The automation of the grocery list, I want to share with you an amazing tool and it’s an app on your phone and it is called Instacart. And Instacart is amazing. And I’ve seen this go from two or three grocery stores in the last three years to now even pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens are online. Sam’s and Costco are on here. This will save you massive amounts of time. And time is really critical. Time allows you to invest in yourself, in your family, you can even have a side hustle. Time to me is not just money, it is an infinite value that is often hard for people to gain more of. And automating your grocery list also will save you money because, if you’re like me, I love to go to the grocery store and find new things. And especially like a Target or, God forbid, I go to an Aldi or a Trader Joe’s, which I’m notorious on my YouTube channel, I do Aldi hauls and Trader Joe’s hauls.

But since I’ve been online shopping and doing my “Instacarting,” I have greatly reduced the amount of impulse buys, which is really critical. And I want to share with you just in this year alone, I have saved on Instacart $539.80. Now you might ask, “How does that happen?” Because they also calculate how many hours you’ve saved in shopping, which is amazing. But one of the great things that I find with Instacart is you can also add in-store sales, store coupons, and manufacturing coupons are often accessible. That is a great way for you to save, but also stays zeroed-in on those items on your everyday, weekly, monthly grocery list. So that’s a really, really important tip.

Number 4: Try an Automated Meal Kit Service

Number four is very similar and synonymous with the automation of your grocery list. But to also look at automated meal kit delivery services. HelloFresh, Plated are really great services where they give you all of the items with a recipe and you are ready to go. It’s a really good way to also add in variety. You can pick and choose the different types of meals and kits that you want to have, there are steam kits and things like that. But that is a really wonderful way to you add in vegetables and good wholesome items while also introducing you and your family to different food groups.

I have found that the average patient that I work with is only consuming between 20 and 30 varieties of foods. For our digestive health, we need greater. We want to have 70, 100 different foods that we’re consuming on a weekly basis to add to the variety of nutritional, nutritional properties – nutrients, vitamins, enzymes – but also from a prebiotic and probiotic perspective, the variety of our food, eating a rainbow and eating all different types of foods, like different types of mushrooms and different varieties of vegetables and greens will help to support our gut health.

Number 5: Look for Subscribe & Save Programs

All right, so number five. I want to share with you one of my amazing money and time savers. And it is looking at subscription services. This is a really broad category and really suits all different types of folks that are buying daily, weekly, and monthly staples. These subscription services are often called subscribe and save (S&S), and they essentially allow you to one, never run out, which saves you time having to run last minute to the store, which often if you haven’t eaten food, you’re more likely to buy more items that are going to not necessarily be things that you traditionally consume, you’re deviating from your grocery list, and it allows you to constantly stock the core essentials. So basic necessities like toilet paper, bath soap, batteries, all sorts of everyday items, cotton swabs, Q-tips, we’ll find pantry items, staples like organic and gluten-free pastas are beneficial.

And it also will cover batteries, diapers, baby formula of all different types. We find pet food items can be shipped, like by Chewy. So think about assessing where in the catalog of subscription services that can cater to reducing the time you need to be buying and taking time to gather those items. Now, this also applies to supplements. And I’m a huge fan of the subscribe and save programs when it comes to supplements because I’m a practitioner, I really encourage my patients to have compliance. Meaning I want them to follow my protocols and sometimes I’ll have supplements in those protocols. And generally, a protocol for me will be a three- to six-month process. And if I’m trying to set up my patient to succeed and to help them be successful in the transition or supporting their body and the nutritional deficiencies or whatever it is that we’re trying to zero in on and resolve, I need them to be consistent.

And so subscribe and save programs, when it comes to supplementation, is really amazing. [Note: Offer has expired. Learn how to save here.] And I am very excited to share with you that – today only – we’re running here at Organixx a really amazing subscribe and save special. So a subscribe and save sale is today. And it is a boost to our normal subscribe and save program. So essentially, our S&S program, our subscribe and save program, you are going to automatically receive a 15% discount on all your items that you purchase. That includes our oils, skincare and the entire supplement program, as well as powders like the collagen, which I always recommend. So make sure you add that to your automated list. But really importantly, there’s always free shipping and you get priority stock. So essentially, if we are running low on inventory, you’re going to have priority shipment of that. That also helps us as a manufacturer and a distributor of our products make sure that we’re keeping the right inventory levels. So we never run out nor will you.

So, today only, if you initiate your first subscribe and save order, we’re adding an extra 10% off today’s order.

Avoid Progress Setbacks by Subscribing

So, I hope you’ll add that to your list because, again, when it comes to you being successful in the new year, part of it is maintaining the routine of supplementation and implementing a lot of these recommendations here on this video I’m providing for you. But critically, it allows you to never deviate. And what I find is, if patients run out, the likelihood of them reinvigorating that product, that space and time, either they’ve got to run out to the store… which, by the way, you run out to the store, you’re going to buy more than the supplement, I know for sure, that’s just human nature.

And the other part of it is you’ve got a gap that is going to cause a dip in your progress. So we want a momentum of progress that is compounding. If you have a space or a gap in between, we’re going to see a setback. And I do not want any of you who are receiving all the amazing benefits of our Organixx product line to have setbacks. So make sure you take advantage of this awesome sale.

But also, I want you to make a note, think about all the different items that you stock in your house that you need, maybe even for work. I got into this whole automation first with my profession, and it’s a long story, but essentially, I had some patients that were really great “couponers” and really savvy individuals that were using credit card points and all these other things. And subscribe and save programs were just kicking off. This is before Instacart, before a lot of the meal delivery services. That’s how long it’s been.

But it really got me thinking about, “How can I maximize my time? How can I save money and ensure we don’t run out of toilet paper or the basics that end up driving you to the store?” And as an owner of three dogs, we used to run out of dog food all the time. And Brian, my husband, would never tell me we’re running low and I would be at the store out and about, I could have gotten dog food. So it just saves you that stress and it saves you that time. And so you’re not having to run out and spend more money and save. So that’s really critical. Saving is amazing when we are looking at subscription services.

Number 6: Automate Your Pet Care

Okay. So number six segues into the whole fiasco we had found ourselves in with dog food, but you can automate your dog or your pet care. So dogs, cats, we have some rodents in our family, any of the animals, and even big animals. So I have friends that own livestock, birds, and geese, and chickens. There are automatic feeders that you can set up. You can automate your feeding, you can automate your water dispensers and all those things that are actively going to take your time on a daily basis. But also you can automate the purchasing of the food and the supplies. Chewy is a really great one for dogs. But even our vet, when we are looking at sometimes in the summer we’ll add some medication for them. One of our dogs has an issue with the environment and I don’t want it to be every month throughout the year, but I pepper it in. Well, I automate my prescription. And it also limits me having to take them to the vet. So if it’s automatic, it saves time and saves money, and will ensure that you guys are not running out grabbing dog food at the last minute.

Number 7: Automate Your Plant Care

Now, number seven, also, for the things that we care for, you can automate your plant care. And again, there are some subscription services here when it comes to plant services, but I want to really zero in on plant watering. We have multiple green thumbs in our family. And so we don’t have a problem with a lot of our plants not being watered or having challenges. But a lot of friends, and I’ve had family, that chronically will forget to feed and water their plant. You can set up the little auto feeders, it’s like a little bulb, they call them watering bulbs. They’re really pretty. They look like glass, fill them up and stick it in and that’ll distribute water to your plant and the roots very evenly over several weeks. So if you have a black thumb or feel like you can’t have an assortment of green plants in your house, think about that automation as a way for you to allow plants in to help clean your air and to oxygenate and filter your air in your home. I love that.

Number 8: Put Cleaning on Autopilot

Okay. So number eight, this is a game-changer and it’s an automatic vacuum cleaner, like the iRobot or any type of robotic vacuum cleaner. Now, they’re even the vacuum cleaners that they communicate with each other and there’s even these new automations where they’ll have these like vacuum suction type of things. This is really amazing. The “set it and forget it” mentality, that’s the name of my game. I want to be able to automate everything. And again I mentioned we have three dogs, we have a lot of fur. We have a lot of pet dander. And clean air, the quality of our air is really critical.

And so if you live in an area where you maybe don’t have a lot of good ventilation or your air quality is poor, or you find that you hate vacuuming, like I do, set up an iRobot. You can have it in multiple rooms. You can have it in multiple floors. The automation of the iRobot is amazing, and it is so smart. All you have to do is set it up, plug it in, and the first kind of sweep, it sets that whole perimeter. It knows your whole house with the whole setting. If you change furniture, it’ll figure that out. And then it goes bleep-bleep-bleep and then it knows it’s run out of battery. And it goes back into the dock and charges itself. It’s seriously amazing. Game-changer. And we never have to deal with fur all over our house. It’s always running and has saved us, me, a lot of time.

Number 9: Automate Your Life Further with Apps

Okay. So number nine. I want to share with you something that’s really amazing on your phone. So you can use automation apps on your phone that will help you automate your life further. One of my favorite ones is called Tasker and another is called Workflow. And this segues into the business of our house and our household. And you can even use this in your work life. But these are really great apps on your phone that you can access that will trigger reminders and things like that.

Number 10: Use Your Calendar to Remind You

And my last and final is to actually prompt yourself with calendar reminders on your phone. So I’m still old school. I still like a paper calendar. I have several. I have a pocket one. I have one up here in my office. So the act of writing it down for me zeros it in and it locks it in my head.

But I also am running around a lot and need reminders on my phone. So I will pair up when I sit down to write out when Gabriel’s off on school and different days that I might be traveling for work or whoever’s birthdays and anniversaries, there’s just too many dates. Sometimes I forget things. Automating it will help you feel less stressed about, “Did I forget Mom’s birthday, or my parents’ anniversary, or doctor’s appointments?” Or even follow-up doctor’s appointments, meaning, “Oh, you need to set up that appointment.” Well, put a timer that maybe you need to call your doctor’s office two months ahead of schedule to get the appointment when you need it.

This also qualifies for labs. I know a lot of patients that are on medications that need to be monitored. Don’t rely on your doctor’s office to automate their appointments or ensure… Basically, what I’m saying is make sure that you are taking the onus on that follow-up. And so that lab visit or that schedule that you need to set up with your accountant or whomever that sets up as an auto reminder for the task to call and set up that appointment. So that’s an even deeper way to automate your life.

But these 10 tips will save you lots and lots of time and money and create more open brain, emotional space that allows you to live a healthier, easier, happier life this coming year.

So, I’m curious to see which of these do you automatically have set, what have you automated, what are you thinking about automating? Or maybe you’re inspired to follow any one of these tips. So, let us know. I’d love to hear from you. And thanks. Happy New Year!


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Are You Too Clean? The “Hygiene Hypothesis” and Why Not All Bacteria Is Bad

About 75% of American adult men and women say that they shower at least once a day [1]. While it’s definitely more pleasant being around people who clean themselves regularly, is slathering on hand sanitizer, bathing with anti-bacterial soap, and filling the air with germ-killing sprays a smart move?

Could being a “germaphobe” actually make you sicker instead of healthier in the long term? Read on for some surprising facts on how our modern obsession with “sanitizing” may be making our immune systems weaker.

The Importance of Beneficial Bacteria

To understand why constant washing and sanitizing may not be such a good thing after all, we have to first focus our attention on close-up-of-medical-staff-washing-handsthe microscopic world of bacteria.

Bacteria started to get a bad rap back in the late 19th century when Robert Koch [2], a noble-prize winning German doctor, linked certain bacterium to disease.

That sparked a sanitation revolution in Europe and worldwide that no doubt saved the lives and lengthened the lifespans of individuals worldwide in an era of plague and sanitation-based disease.

For decades, bacteria were seen as primarily pathogen – things to be irradiated, wiped clean, and gotten rid of completely. But now that climate of “bacterial doom and gloom” is changing.

Researchers, doctors, and the public at large are learning more about the benefits of bacteria. In fact, according to many studies, it turns out that we may need a diversity of both bad and good micro-organisms for our very survival.

What Is the “Hygiene Hypothesis”?

The tide of negativity against bacteria began to turn almost 30 years ago when David Strachan, a British epidemiologist, first hypothesized that exposure to mild childhood infections may provide a stronger defense against allergies than non-exposure. In a 1989 report [3], he called this his “Hygiene Hypothesis.”
man with cold or flu blowing his noseOther researchers have added to the theory over the years. Biologists at Russell Sage Collage in New York state that hay fever and allergy, which now affects over 20 million American children (6.1 million for hay fever and 15 million for other allergic reactions, including food allergies [4]), may be ultimately caused by immune systems that have forgotten how to use beneficial microbes.

“It is essential to pass on the maternal microbiota – symbiotic harmless organisms in the gut, skin and elsewhere – and we need contact with the microbial biodiversity from the environment,” said one British scientist in a recent interview for the BBC [5].

Bacterial Exposure Begins at Birth

An increasing number of studies are connecting bacterial exposure early in life and a healthy immune system. The first bacterial exposure happens when a natural-birth baby comes out of the birth canal and is exposed to certain bacterial substances in the mother’s vagina. With a cesarean delivery (CD) the baby misses out on that crucial bacterial bath.

A 2012 study conducted by the University of Florida found that the rate of cesarean delivery had risen by 48% since 1996. They then make the correlation between higher rates of CD in industrialized countries and the “epidemic of both autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, Crohn’s disease, and multiple sclerosis and allergic diseases, such as asthma, allergic rhinitis, and atopic dermatitis [6].”

In addition, a French review of Hygiene Hypothesis research to date states interestingly that “(t)he presence of one or more older siblings protects against development of hay fever and asthma… as does attendance at day care during the first 6 months of life in the case of atopic dermatitis and asthma [7].” Other studies have found that exposure to animals such as dogs and livestock can prevent atopic diseases, especially if the mother is exposed during pregnancy [8].

Being Too Clean Can Harm Gut Microbiota

Another example of the importance of maintaining a biodiversity of bacteria is what we now know about the microbiome of the Scientists study gut bacteriadigestive tract.

There are literally trillions of microbes in our gut. Most of them exist in the large intestine, about 2-5 pounds of them if they were assembled all together. And here is a fact that may really bake your noodle: researchers have deduced that of all the cells in the human body, more than half are actually bacterial cells (40 trillion to 30 trillion human cells) [9].

Folks, this means that each one of us or more bacteria than human!

There are about 1,000 species of bacteria in the human gut. What’s more, each one has a specific role in your body. Yes, some are definitely pathogenic (i.e., disease-causing). Many more, however, help to break down food, especially fiber, and assist in the creation of vitamins and hormonal substances within the body. Most importantly, beneficial gut bacteria help to regulate the immune system since many of them are vital in communication between immune cells.

This makes sense since up to 80% of our immune system cells reside in the gut. Many researchers now hypothesize that beneficial bacteria not only support our immune system but are integral to the very development of immune defense mechanisms against infection on a cellular level [10].

Bacteria Can Even Help Your Brain

There is also increasing evidence that a healthy gut microbiome can help the brain and nervous system. Researchers at Texas Tech University, amongst others, have found that certain bacteria can help keep some types of anxiety and depression at bay (while others may promote these conditions) [11].
close-up-of hands-planting-tomatoes-seedling-in-organic-gardenOther investigations have found that putting your hands in the earth through gardening or otherwise “playing in the dirt” can help your gut and your mood no matter how old you are! Common garden soil contains the bacteria Mycobacterium. An award-winning 2016 study conducted at the University of Colorado, Boulder, found that Mycobacterium helps release serotonin in the brain as well as lower inflammation levels [12].

Have we been duped into being too clean by 100 years of manufacturers promoting items like germ-killing mouthwash and aluminum-filled deodorant [13]? Perhaps.

The good news is that consumers like you are catching on that anything designed to “kill bacteria” isn’t making a distinction between beneficial and harmful types. Ditch “anti-bacterial” products for cleansers made with non-toxic ingredients.

And still use good old-fashioned common sense. Of course wash your hands after you go to the bathroom or sneeze. Cook that chicken all the way through. Be thankful for all the advances in sanitation systems that have saved entire populations from the epidemics of the past.

At the same time, you and your family probably don’t need to live in a bubble. A little exposure to microbes in the soil, from animals, and from other people just may do your body (and your beneficial bacteria) a world of good!


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Detoxing with Caroline

Detoxing with Caroline #1 – My Story – How I Got into Detoxing

Meet our Director of Human Resources, Caroline, as she shares the emotional journey that led her to the power of proper detoxing.


Detoxing with Caroline #2 – Looking at “Detox” in a Different Way

Are detoxes more than “magic” mixtures designed to help remove harmful chemicals and toxins from your body? Is there more you need to know before choosing a detox that’s safe for you? Join Caroline to find out these answers and discover what toxic ingredients might be hiding in your cosmetics drawer…


Detoxing with Caroline #3 – Toxins in Foods & Your Environment

Pesticides… chemicals… toxins… It seems like harmful substances are everywhere! Join Caroline as she discusses the potential toxins lurking in your environment and even your food!


Detoxing with Caroline #4 – 10 Best Green Cleaning Alternatives

Tune into our final installment of “Detoxing with Caroline” to uncover which toxins are hiding in your home and discover the 10 best green cleaning alternatives.


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