Eight Self Improvement Tips To Start Your Day
The morning is such a critical time when it comes to manifesting the life experience you desire. For some of us we get up, grab our coffee and rush out the door. We then sit in traffic and dream of a better life. I know this because it is what I used to do. I had to break this pattern and truly MorningCoach.com was born of this.
What did I do and what do I do now?
The first thing is you need to plan an extra 45 minutes every morning and it will truly change your life. If you are having trouble with this, ask yourself what are your dreams? What are you willing to do to achieve those dreams? If 45 minutes a day could help you reach your dreams would you do it? If not, you need bigger dreams or bigger "reasons" then you will do it!
Your dreams are big, the reasons are big so you are willing to get up 45 minutes early. This is what I did and still do every morning.
1. Wake up and get moving go right to the shower, no snooze button. Just wake up and head to the shower and get ready for an amazing day. If you go to the gym in the AM or walk, log into MorningCoach.com and get today's CoachCast so you can take it with you. If you don't get the CoachCast during this step you can get it in step 3. After working out, shower and get ready for an amazing day.
2. Take some time to work on awakening spirituality and taping into your spiritual consciousness or what I call the observer. Do this with a 5 minute quiet meditation or prayer.
3. Make your breakfast and eat a solid breakfast using mindfulness eating. Fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains are fantastic. A tall glass of purified water is also essential to break your fast after a good nights rest.
4. Log into MorningCoach and listen to today's CoachCast. If you have not already done so at the gym or walking. This is also the time to download the daily compass and work through it. Make notes there and put any additional notes in your notes tool on MorningCoach.com.
5. Review your goals and dreams. Using the tools on MorningCoach.com look at your dreamboard and visualize and review the goals you have set with the goal-setting tool.
6. Review your dashboard starting with your mission statement then moving to and saying your affirmation.
7. Use some effective time management and work through your sacred 6 tool. Then prioritize the tasks on the sacred 6 tool.
8. Type 3 things that you have gratitude for and start your amazing day.
The beauty of doing this everyday is you will be working in all areas of your life. Your personal growth and development will be amazing. Your bank account will grow, your peace will grow, and you will be more abundant in all areas of life.
Sleep is necessary for growth and replenishment but it can also be one of the barriers to personal growth. Take the time in the morning to get your dreams in order. You deserve to manifest the life experience you desire!
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
God Bless Carl E. Taylor 1916-2010- A Major Contributor to Public Health
Carl E. Taylor, MD, DrPH, founder of the academic discipline of international health and a man of spiritual conviction who dedicated his life to the well-being of the world’s marginalized people, passed away February 4 from prostate cancer. He was 93. The reach of his life was extraordinary, personally working in over 70 countries and having students from more than 100 countries. He was sharing this near century-long perspective with his students up until a week before his death.
Taylor was born in the Indian Himalaya to medical missionaries. His career began at age 7 as a pharmacist assistant in his parents’ oxcart-based clinic in the Indian jungles. His childhood was spent in those jungles, before going on to earn his medical degree from Harvard. (His medical school application opened with, “My study of anatomy began dissecting a tiger to see where the food went.”) Following medical school, he worked in Panama where he married his wife of 58 years, the late Mary Daniels Taylor, who died in 2001 and was professor emeritus of Education at Towson University.
Taylor returned to India in 1947 as director of Fategarh Presbyterian Hospital where he led a medical team through the deadly riots of 1947 during the separation of India and Pakistan. In 1949, he conducted the first health survey of Nepal, then the most closed country in Asia. Back at Harvard, he completed his MPH and DrPH degrees. His doctoral dissertation provided the seminal research that defined the synergism between nutrition and infection, today a principle at the foundation of public health. In 1952, he founded the department of preventive medicine at the Christian Medical College Ludhiana, the first such department in the developing world.
Taylor was the founding chair of the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins. He was instrumental in designing the global agenda for primary health care in the 1960s and 1970s. Before it was widely embraced, he was part of research and movements that connected women’s empowerment and holistic community-based change.
Throughout his life, Taylor had a particular interest in health care reform, especially the integration of services. His research achievements were wide-ranging. The Narangwal Rural Health Research Project in northern India, which he led from 1960 to 1975, provided breakthrough understandings in the diagnosis and treatment of childhood pneumonia, neonatal tetanus, getting medical care to the villages, synergism of malnutrition and child mortality, understanding childhood diarrheal treatment and community empowerment for just and lasting health solutions.
In addition to his 48 years at Johns Hopkins, Taylor was China Representative for UNICEF from 1984 to 1987. From 1992 until his death, he was senior advisor to Future Generations and more recently Future Generations Graduate School where a professorship is endowed in his name. From 2004 to 2006, he was Afghanistan Country Director for Future Generations, where he led field-based action groups using over 400 mosques as educational sites for Afghan women. He returned to Afghanistan in 2008 (at 92) to test hypotheses about how “women can in action groups solve the majority of their family health problems.”
Taylor was the primary World Health Organization consultant in preparing documents in 1978 for the Alma Ata World Conference on Primary Health Care. From 1957 through 1983, he advised WHO on a wide range of international health matters. In 1972, Taylor became the founding chair of the National Council for International Health, now known as the Global Health Council. He was also the founding chair of the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association.
Taylor published more than 190 peer-reviewed journal articles, books, chapters and policy monographs. In addition to his earned degrees, Taylor received honorary degrees from Muskingum College, Towson State University, China’s Tongji University, Peking Union Medical College and Johns Hopkins University. In 1993, President Bill Clinton recognized him for “Sustained work to protect children around the world in especially difficult circumstances and a life-time commitment to community based primary care.”
Taylor is survived by his two brothers, John and Gordon, two sisters, Gladys and Margaret, three children, Daniel, Betsy, Henry, and nine grandchildren. With an eight-decade long career in international health, he is beloved by thousands students and colleagues around the world. His stories of adventure and service enabled them to believe that they too could create just and lasting change. In the last year of his life, he was sitting with women in a bamboo hut in northeast India asking them how they would shape their futures, when they responded, “it is harra, the empowerment of ourselves.”
Taylor was born in the Indian Himalaya to medical missionaries. His career began at age 7 as a pharmacist assistant in his parents’ oxcart-based clinic in the Indian jungles. His childhood was spent in those jungles, before going on to earn his medical degree from Harvard. (His medical school application opened with, “My study of anatomy began dissecting a tiger to see where the food went.”) Following medical school, he worked in Panama where he married his wife of 58 years, the late Mary Daniels Taylor, who died in 2001 and was professor emeritus of Education at Towson University.
Taylor returned to India in 1947 as director of Fategarh Presbyterian Hospital where he led a medical team through the deadly riots of 1947 during the separation of India and Pakistan. In 1949, he conducted the first health survey of Nepal, then the most closed country in Asia. Back at Harvard, he completed his MPH and DrPH degrees. His doctoral dissertation provided the seminal research that defined the synergism between nutrition and infection, today a principle at the foundation of public health. In 1952, he founded the department of preventive medicine at the Christian Medical College Ludhiana, the first such department in the developing world.
Taylor was the founding chair of the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins. He was instrumental in designing the global agenda for primary health care in the 1960s and 1970s. Before it was widely embraced, he was part of research and movements that connected women’s empowerment and holistic community-based change.
Throughout his life, Taylor had a particular interest in health care reform, especially the integration of services. His research achievements were wide-ranging. The Narangwal Rural Health Research Project in northern India, which he led from 1960 to 1975, provided breakthrough understandings in the diagnosis and treatment of childhood pneumonia, neonatal tetanus, getting medical care to the villages, synergism of malnutrition and child mortality, understanding childhood diarrheal treatment and community empowerment for just and lasting health solutions.
In addition to his 48 years at Johns Hopkins, Taylor was China Representative for UNICEF from 1984 to 1987. From 1992 until his death, he was senior advisor to Future Generations and more recently Future Generations Graduate School where a professorship is endowed in his name. From 2004 to 2006, he was Afghanistan Country Director for Future Generations, where he led field-based action groups using over 400 mosques as educational sites for Afghan women. He returned to Afghanistan in 2008 (at 92) to test hypotheses about how “women can in action groups solve the majority of their family health problems.”
Taylor was the primary World Health Organization consultant in preparing documents in 1978 for the Alma Ata World Conference on Primary Health Care. From 1957 through 1983, he advised WHO on a wide range of international health matters. In 1972, Taylor became the founding chair of the National Council for International Health, now known as the Global Health Council. He was also the founding chair of the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association.
Taylor published more than 190 peer-reviewed journal articles, books, chapters and policy monographs. In addition to his earned degrees, Taylor received honorary degrees from Muskingum College, Towson State University, China’s Tongji University, Peking Union Medical College and Johns Hopkins University. In 1993, President Bill Clinton recognized him for “Sustained work to protect children around the world in especially difficult circumstances and a life-time commitment to community based primary care.”
Taylor is survived by his two brothers, John and Gordon, two sisters, Gladys and Margaret, three children, Daniel, Betsy, Henry, and nine grandchildren. With an eight-decade long career in international health, he is beloved by thousands students and colleagues around the world. His stories of adventure and service enabled them to believe that they too could create just and lasting change. In the last year of his life, he was sitting with women in a bamboo hut in northeast India asking them how they would shape their futures, when they responded, “it is harra, the empowerment of ourselves.”
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Baked Italian Chicken Argula
From Vibrance Nutrition
The kalamata and balsamic offer depth and richness to a very light and satisfying dish. This can be served in either summer or winter, paired with a rosemary quinoa pilaf or roasted potatoes.
Serves 4
* 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts or thighs
* salt, pepper, and olive oil to taste
* 2 cups arugula leaves, torn
* 2 tsp fresh sage leaves
* 1 tbsp. dried Italian seasoning
* 4plum tomatoes, chopped (about 2 cups)
* 1/4 cup kalamata olives, diced
* Balsamic vinegar
* 4 stalks asparagus, chopped (optional)
Preheat oven to 450 degrees
Lightly rub olive oil on the bottom of a small baking dish. Gently massage a touch of olive oil onto the chicken pieces, then sprinkle with salt and pepper. Line the baking dish with arugula leaves and top with chicken. Sprinkle sage leaves, Italian seasoning, tomatoes, olives and asparagus atop chicken and lightly sprinkle with vinegar. Cover with parchment paper and foil and bake for 20 minutes. Let rest 10 minutes before serving.
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