Preparing for Life They’re everywhere, promising transformation, momentum, performance, and vision. Life coaching as a business has ballooned over the past twenty years, with tens of thousands of practitioners ranging from psychotherapists and physicians with decades of clinical experience and real wisdom to youngsters whose claims are their only claims to fame. There are educators, […]
Who’s flying your plane? (2/7/11)
When Your Pilot Falls Asleep – and Locks the Door Sometimes folks fall asleep and you can’t wake them up – not for quite a while. When it’s your SAS pilot flying you from Copenhagen to Stockholm, it does provoke comment. Last year, as reported by Fran Golden in AOL Health, a short hop, one […]
Carry a camera for your health (and others’ health, too – 2/4/11)
Carry That Camera As technology becomes cheaper it’s used in different ways. Now cyclists in Britain are using inexpensive cameras to document ill mannered driving by car and truck drivers. Many of their documented encounters have led to fines for the drivers, and overall, bicyclist safety records are improving. Yet there are a lot more […]
In the bedroom (1/31/11)
An Environment for Rest Rest is regeneration, and how you sleep affects every part of your life. Recently the National Sleep Foundation (I am a lifetime member) did a nationwide telephone interview of 1500 adults ages 25-55 to determine what kind of bed environment they liked. Since the study was funded by the makers of […]
Saving daylight savings (lighting up your life – 1/28/11)
Thieves of Time People don’t get enough light in their lives. They really really become distressed when governments take sunlight away from them – rather like officials increasing the tax on air. The politics of daylight time are heating up. Scotland The most recent example of public unhappiness is Scotland. Attempts to make daylight savings […]
