An overnight snowfall capped autumn’s golden leaves this morning in Colorado, where our company was born. Even as the snow sparkled in the sunshine, dripping and sliding in slushy clumps to the ground, it reminded us that winter is coming. Forgive the Game of Thrones reference. The point is that time is limited, and the…
Category: Health & Wellness
Vacation, Shmacation: Why Don’t We Take Time Off?
Apparently, the Brits think we Americans have a national vacation problem. A recent article in the Guardian testifies to this, questioning why so many Americans fail to take all—or any—of their vacation days each year, working significantly more days than their counterparts in other countries. This summer, the BBC reported that 40 percent of American…
Managing Time for a Better Life, Part 3
We all have the same amount of hours in a day. Are yours quality hours? Do they look and feel the way you want them to? We don’t always have control over that. It’s tough to live simply in America these days—we can’t be the way people used to before cars and computers and cell…
Managing Time for a Better Life, Part 2
Last week we suggested that it might be more useful to think of managing energy instead of managing time in this jam-packed age of doing-more-with-every-minute. The key to human performance is energy, not time. We all have the same number of hours in each day, but we achieve very different things in those hours. We can’t…
Managing Time for a Better Life, Part 1
What is it about time? Some moments last forever while others pass so quickly it’s like they didn’t even happen. And as we grow older, time seems to fly … whether we’re having fun or not, heh. “Time is an illusion,” Albert Einstein said. He was right. And yet time is one of the most…
Building a Healthy Relationship with Food
So we talk a lot about sleep in this blog. But what about other aspects of living well? Food, for example, is a big one for a lot of us. Recently, one of us had a conversation with his wife about this. It was randomly sparked by the sudden, unfortunate need to replace the radiator…
How Sleep Affects Your Love Life
Let’s say you have a hot date tonight. Yay! You’re going out for drinks at some swanky spot downtown. You’re excited…and a tad bit nervous. According to the experts, your dating experience could go very differently, depending on the quality of your sleep the night before! Dating is far from simple, but here’s a deliberately…
The Restfulness of Being Outside
There’s a video circulating these days that we like a lot: a quick glimpse at the childhoods of three generations. It’s a little bit sweet and a little bit sad. The silver-haired folks on the video remembered picking berries, watching things grow, fishing and escaping bears in the woods. The middle-aged fondly recalled building forts…
The Secret to a Long Life: Sleep!
Want to live long and prosper? Well, nerdy Star Trek references aside, you should sleep a lot! Don’t take our word for it: the world’s oldest woman attributes her longevity to getting “lots of sleep”…along with prodigious amounts of bacon eating. Susannah Mushatt Jones just turned 116 on Monday, making her the oldest living human and…
Do Women Need More Sleep Than Men?
Are you a woman who wakes up wishing she hadn’t? Do you bury your face in your pillow and sigh over the loss of dreamland, bracing yourself to face the day? If so, apparently you’re not alone. A recent international study found women tend to be grumpier in the morning than men, even after getting…