health is wealth: 15-Minute Workouts You Can Actually Squeeze in Before Work

 

If you're not a morning person, the idea of strapping on sneakers and schlepping to the gym at 6:30am is a total joke. But what if you could get an effective workout at home in the amount of time between snooze alarms?
Four fitness experts, ranging from a celeb trainer at Barry’s Bootcamp to a marathoner, shared ideas for morning workouts you can do before work, in your pajamas, in just 15 minutes. When you try the in-bed workout, you’ll have no excuse not to sweat in the morning.

The still-in-bed workout

You don’t have to leave your bedroom to do this full-body, cardio-strength workout. Brynn Putnam, a certified personal trainer and founder of high-intensity interval-training studio Refine Method, says that the elevated surface of a bed adds an extra challenge to these morning exercises.
Perform these five exercises for 60 seconds each. Repeat the sequence three times.

Single-leg sit to stand: Sit on the edge of your bed with your right leg extended in front of you and your left foot on the ground (knee bent). Use your glutes to lift yourself off the bed into a standing position on one leg. Hinge forward 45 degrees, send your hips back, and sit down. Switch legs and repeat.

Elevated push-ups: Lying with your stomach down, grab the edge of the bed with your inner elbows facing in. Step your feet back into plank position with your abs tight. Lower yourself to the bed, then extend your arms to lift yourself up.

Step-ups: Standing next to the bed, place your right foot on the bed and hinge forward 45 degrees. Step your left leg up, driving through your right foot and engaging your right glute. Hinge forward and slowly step down with your left foot. Switch sides and repeat.

Plank to side plank: Come to a plank position on the bed with your hands under your shoulders. Squeeze your abs, place your right arm flat on the bed and lift your left arm, focusing on keeping your hips in line with your shoulders. Hold for 30 seconds, then repeat on the left side.

Double-leg hip lift: Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet on the bed, hip-width apart. Squeeze your glutes and lift your hips up, keeping your shoulders on the bed and arms extended beneath the hips. Only lift high enough that you feel your glutes working with no help from your lower back. Lower down slowly and repeat.

Lionel Messi Broke a Woman's Arm With a Missed Shot

Let's lighten up on the importance of wealth and read this for the moment.

He might be the world's greatest player, but Lionel Messi isn't often recognized for his power. His low center of gravity and balance while running at pace make him nearly impossible to knock off the ball, however, and he's won plenty of physical challenges against much bigger players. But he can also call on a deceptively formidable shot, especially on his left foot. With very little back lift, he can generate plenty of power.

An unlucky fan discovered how much force the Argentine has at his disposal at a match yesterday between Villareal and Barcelona. Messi cut inside off the right wing toward the top of the box and unleashed an explosive left-foot effort that flew over the crossbar and kept rising. A female fan stuck up an arm to protect herself, and the ball struck with enough force to break it. Video after shows her in noticeable pain, and she seems to go into a kind of shock while trying to leave her seat to get medical attention.

It's an issue more commonly associated with baseball or hockey, but be warned: Catching a soccer game from the stands can also be dangerous.

quote: make your goals so strong that even a miss directed shot has a great effect!!!

Reasons why quitters quit, and yet some succeed in the same things!!!

Why Most People Don’t Finish What They Start…A Lesson From Burning Man

How many people do you know want to write a book?
Seems like that’s a fairly common dream for a lot of people for a lot of different reasons. Now consider: how many of those same people actually finish what they start?
This is a very common thing, whether we’re talking about writing a book or the businesses you were going to start; any of the things you’ve said that you’re going to get involved in. There’s all this passion at one point, then after a bit of time that passion tends to fizzle out.
We can talk about procrastination. We can talk about commitment. We can talk about taking bite-sized, manageable steps towards a goal. We can talk and talk and talk about these things, but that’s not the big problem.
At the heart of this problem is doubt. Almost everybody doing anything feels the same way. They say, “I’m starting a new business. I wonder if it’s going to work. What if nobody wants it? I’ve spent so much time and money. I really hope this works out.”
So what do you do?
First, you feel the fear and do it anyway. Act in spite of doubt and anxiety. You get on out there and you start to write, or develop your idea, or sign up for courses if you need information to grow and improve. You say, “I’m not going to let this take me out. I’m going to do the best I can. I’m going to enjoy it the best I can.”
But second and most importantly, you detach from your intended outcome.
What?! What the hell are you talking about, Harv? How do we meet our goals and stay on track without being attached to what actually happens?
Let me try to explain this through a story…actually it’s a yearly event that takes place out here in the desert near Reno called Burning Man, where about 65,000 to 70,000 people from all walks of life come together in their own kind of alternative community.
The most interesting thing about it all, though, is that they do a lot of spectacular artwork. Huge pieces; things that are 30 or 40 feet high. People have worked on these pieces for a full year. I’m talking pieces that could probably be sold for $5 million, easily.
Do you know what they do with it all at the end of the event? They burn it!
Why? Because it’s not about the result. It’s about the process of loving what you do. You enjoy the process of creating the art and then allow it to be enjoyed for the time it was meant to be enjoyed.
They burn it to basically make certain that they’re not attached to any outcomes or any results from it in the future. It was only the process they were interested in. It was the beauty and creativity of painting, creating or doing.
If we were not attached to our outcomes, there would be no fear, period. You’re only fearful that you’re not going to have your desired outcome. What if there was no outcome to have? What would you be afraid of? Nothing.
You can have an intention to create $1 million this year, but you don’t have to be attached to it. “But don’t you have to commit to it?” Yes, of course, but it doesn’t mean you have to be attached.
Commitment and attachment are different. Attachment is an emotional element. Commitment is a process.
I want you to create an intention and have a vision for your life, but I don’t want you to be attached to anything because attachment creates suffering. Buddha said it, and everyone who has quoted Buddha talks about it:
“The number one cause of my suffering is believing that I have to get what I want in order to be happy.”
Read that again…“The number one cause of my suffering is believing that I have to get what I want in order to be happy.”
True or true?
Here’s the problem. If you have to get what you want in order to be happy, there’s going to be a lot of times you don’t get exactly what you want. You’ll always be suffering.
Many people don’t finish what they start simply because they’re too attached to the outcome. By all means do what you have to do to reach your goals, but enjoy the process more than worry about whether or not you’re going to reach them. Let go of that attachment.
You don’t have to be attached to your intentions, results or commitments. You don’t have to be attached to anything. Watch how much happier and successful you become.

Michael Jackson's Children To Lose Most Of Their £900Million Inheritance?

It has been reported that Michael Jackson’s three children might lose the majority of their huge inheritance due to taxes.

Nineteen-year-old Prince, seventeen-year-old Paris, and fourteen-year-old Blanket were due to inherit the huge £900million when they turned thirty, but authorities are said to be seeking £555million from Michael’s estate.

 
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It is also believed that the singing legend, who tragically died in 2009, owed over £300million in other debts - which will ripe out the rest of the huge inheritance sum.
A source told The Sun: “On paper the kids are billionaires thanks to these massive sums. But the truth is those sums will barely be in their accounts for any time as they have this huge tax bill to settle.

 
“The IRS (Internal Revenue Service) had been public about their demand asking for as much as £555 million, with more charges coming for late payments.”

The tax figure increased by about £70million after Michael’s stake in Sony/ATVMusic Publshing sold last week for £526million, with the insider adding: “The estate has challenged that enormous figure, but the Sony deal simply ups the amount they owe.”

And that’s not all that that the Jackson children have lost out on, with it recently being revealed that the star’s treasured ‘Gone With The Wind’ Oscar that he bought for $1.54million in 1999, has gone missing.
Michael’s executors of his estate are unable to find the prized trophy and have no idea where the singer even kept it, with Lawyer Howard Weitzman admitting: “The estate does not know where the ‘Gone With the Wind’ statuette is.

"We would like to have that Oscar because it belongs to Michael’s children. I’m hopeful it will turn up at some point.”

What will your children inherit? A pay of shoes, clothes, gadgets or a fortune.

Now is the time to build that future, not later.

some uncommon ways to work smarter instead of harder?

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• Use ninja keyboard shortcuts.
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• Get enough rest and sleep, even when you are behind
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• Use a Kanban board
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• Say NO
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• Procrastinate, but not until the last minute
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• Delegate
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• Don't be a perfectionist. Expect the "first draft" of any project to be shitty.

• Increase your typing speed
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• Use the 80/20 Principle. Analyze the work before you start.
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• Set a deadline
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• Don't multi-task
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• Use a time management system, such as GTD
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• Exercise, even when you think you don't have the time
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• Believe that you can do it

• "Eat that frog": Do the most difficult or the task you hate the most first.
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• Do not sit in the same place for long stretches of time.

The rules of sucess!!!

1. Get comfortable being uncomfortable. Get outside your comfort zone on a regular basis. The more you do, the wider that area becomes. Things that used to seem impossible can become part of your everyday life.
2. Never quit. Unless you're doing something you should stop doing. Just because something doesn't work out the first time doesn't mean there isn't a different approach or a better way to do it. We used to say in the Teams, "Plan your dive and dive your plan." Don't change course just because you face obstacles.
3. Know the difference between preparation and planning. Plans are great and essential for success. But preparation and execution are what gets it done. As General Patton once said, "A good plan executed violently today is far better than a great plan tomorrow."
4. Eat the elephant one bite at a time. Setting and achieving lofty goals is great. But those big, far-reaching goals mean nothing without a series of more near-term strategic achievable goals and milestone set along that path to the achievement of the larger goal. Break the big goals into bite-size chunks, making them less daunting and more achievable.
5. Never stop moving forward. One of my favorite quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. says, "If you can't fly, you run; if you can't run, you walk; and if you can't walk, you crawl. But no matter what, you keep moving forward." If you are not focusing on improving your life and career every day, things will stagnate. If you aren't always trying to improve, then what's the point?
6. Measure everything that is important. If you aren't measuring the success of your activities, there isn't much chance they will thrive. But if you do, there is little chance they won't improve.
7. Manage everything that is important. I don't know how many times I've set something on cruise control to focus on other initiatives only to circle back later to find things either in shambles or with zero progress. It doesn't have to be you, but someone needs to be actively managing the important aspects of your business or life.
8. Know that life isn't fair. I've been in combat, lost brothers, spent years as a single dad while trying to lead a company, gone through costly divorce, battled to maintain much needed full custody of my son, and worked hard to recover from inevitable business mistakes. But God doesn't put us in situations we can't handle. He blessed me with the most amazing wife who saved my life. And she blessed us with a beautiful baby girl. Then she was born with a birth defect and spent a month in the neonatal intensive care unit. That's life. As long as you take every day knowing things aren't fair, you'll be just fine. Never be out of the fight.
9. Laugh when you would rather cry. There is always a reason to smile, especially when you are leading a team. Positivity and calmness are contagious. As is panic. Decide what type of environment you want to promote. Lead by example.
10. Know the difference between skill and success. The world is full of highly skilled people or teams that fall short of achieving true success. In SEAL training, often it was the most elite athletes who were the first to quit. Although they had the physicality, they lacked the mental fortitude to compete and win at that level. They lacked the ability to adapt. We have to be able to bridge the gap between skill and applying that skill to achieving goals.
11. Surround yourself with subject-matter experts. And then take credit for all of their work. Just joking! I would never be where I am today without my wife, business partners, advisers, and our amazing team. I am the least important person at my company. As soon as I realized that, I knew how to get out of the way.

have no regrets later in life!!!

When people look back on their lives, what are common regrets they have?

 

The main sources of regret were, in order:

1. romance
2. family
3. education
4. career
5. finance
6. parenting
7. health
8. "other"
9. friends
10. spirituality
11. community
12. leisure
13. self

They also looked at differences between sexes:

Women, who tend to value social relationships more than men, have more regrets of love (romance, family) compared to men. Conversely, men were more likely to have work-related (career, education) regrets. Those who lack either higher education or a romantic relationship hold the most regrets in precisely these areas.

Americans with high levels of education had the most career-related regrets. Apparently, the more education obtained, the more acute may be the sensitivity to aspiration and fulfillment. Moreover, the youngest and least-educated people in our sample, who most likely possess the greatest capability of fixing their regrets, were indeed the most likely to provide fixable regrets.

other important things people regret are:



Not starting earlier
This is pretty pointless because it's better late than never, but this is the biggest regret most people have. Whenever someone stumbles upon a realization, makes important changes in their life or does something to improve the quality of their life, it's interesting how quickly regret overshadows accomplishment!
The thought process of "If I would have started five years ago, I would have accomplished so much by now" has the power to ruin even the best of decisions.

Doing great things for the wrong people
Of course we had no way of knowing those people better in the past but when you get to know people and choose to move on, in hindsight, it just gets easier to be hard on your past self for not knowing better.

Underestimating your self and over estimating your goals
All of us have a habit of putting away even the smallest of goals for that one magical day when we'll be in a better position, the perfect circumstances, all the required resources at our disposal and the right opportunities presented. The thing about perusing these goals is, you regret over estimating them so much and being afraid of them in the past but then again climbing a mountain looks like a cake walk only when you get to enjoy the view from the top.

But always remember how scary it was when you started out.

Not being spontaneous enough or setting way too many limitations
This is yet another regret point that most people love, but the thing is, it is never too late to open yourself to experiences.

Past mistakes and failures: A lot of people believe in putting these behind them in a black box, never looking back at them or revisiting these only for regret.
"Why do you talk so frequently as so objectively about the things you are supposed to regret?" is a question that is thrown at me too frequently.

The answer is, I don't believe in wasting my time entertaining regrets. Everything about my past, my mistakes, my fears, my failures, my limitations, my heartbreaks, my issues, my shortcomings, the bad habits I gave into, my destructive patterns, my toxic friendships and the phases of my life when I was spinning out of control or when I was drowning in darkness shaped the person I am today. I would be someone else if not for them and the only thing that comes naturally to me now is to break all of them down, to analyse every aspect of my past, to find my patterns and to learn from them, for the future.
This is the only way, I feel one can completely move on from the ghosts of their past, by honestly confronting it, by understanding it and accepting it as a part of your life. That is why I don't regret the alleged mistakes that I have made and that is why I feel extremely comfortable talking about them, even though it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

Embrace everything about your past, even the ugliest of it because regret feeds on fear and denial.

Who said you can't be always happy?

 


Perhaps the main point of contention here is to ensure that you do not allow your happiness to be contingent upon something.

For example, don't tell yourself that "If only I could get into grad school, I would be so happy!"

You can still be happy now, pursuing a place in grad school. Sure, you might experience a burst of elation upon seeing that grad school acceptance letter, but you are only limiting yourself if you think that you can't be happy NOW.

Because when you get into grad school, you'll think to yourself: "If only I could get into a PhD program, I would be so happy!"

And then: "If only I could get tenure, I would be so happy!"

It will never end. There will always be SOMETHING.

Also, from experience, you have to recognize that your happiness will have ebbs and flows. My mistake in my early-mid 20s was allowing a period of decline in my happiness to become more permanent than it needed to be.

If I was ever unhappy, I would go into bouts of excessive rumination and over-analysis about the cause of my unhappiness, without realizing that "This, too, shall pass."

I've realized now that sometimes you just have to let things roll.

Life has ups and downs. You can't change that. If you allow your "downs" to define who you are instead of just running with it and allowing it to pass, then you'll impose permanent unhappiness onto yourself.

YOUR HAPINESS DEPENDS ON YOU AND YOU ALONE, NO ONE ELSE!!!

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GET RID OF YOUR PIMPLES: THE BEST AND FASTEST WAYS

Photos: Michele Morosi/VogueRunway.com

As far as pimples go, those deep, humungous cystic-acne ones are probably the most traumatic. Aside from how much surface area those suckers tend to cover, the pain they cause makes them impossible to ignore. Press on one, and it reverberates throughout your entire face (that’s not an exaggeration). “Usually, people run to their dermatologist’s office for a quick cortisone injection to dry up those monsters within hours,” says Rachel Nazarian, a dermatologist with the Schweiger Dermatology Group in New York City. But what if you just don’t have the time (or money) to pop into your derm’s office that regularly? Here are the six next-best treatments top dermatologists recommend for getting rid of those under-the-surface cysts ASAP.

Whatever you do, don’t try to pop it. “The hardest thing for me to communicate with my patients is that often, around age 20, women experience a major change in their acne. No longer are the zits the juicy whiteheads that explode with a satisfying pop. By the mid-20s and 30s, acne is made of deep pockets of white blood cells, and these can’t be popped. Keep your hands off these awful kinds of zits; popping only makes them worse.” —Scott Dunbar, a dermatologist at Schweiger Dermatology Group

Ice it like a sprained ankle. “Applying an ice cube directly to your pimple for several seconds will constrict small blood vessels feeding the cyst and immediately decrease redness and size.” —Nazarian

Try Renee Rouleau Anti-Cyst Treatment. “Since cysts form on the inner layers of the skin, they need a product that can be absorbed deep down. This Renee Rouleau product does that, and it has a lactic acid-based formula that acts as an anti-inflammatory.” —Karen Hammerman, a dermatologist with Schweiger Dermatology Group

Mix this cocktail of three acne products. “The combination of these three over-the-counter products—a sulfur-containing cream (try Olay Professional Pro-X Clear Intensive Refining Sulfur Mask), a benzoyl peroxide cream (try Arithmetic Acne Control Complex), and a mild cortisone cream (try Cortizone-10)—usually proves very effective when mixed and applied two to three times a day over the cyst for seven to ten days. The cyst will start to significantly reduce in size after two to three days.” —Leyda Bowes, the medical director at Bowes Aesthetics in Miami

Layer your treatments correctly. “Treat painful undergrounders with this order of medications: a hydrocortisone cream to reduce inflammation, a 2 percent salicylic acid product to dry out excess oil, and then benzoyl peroxide to kill acne-causing bacteria.” —Joshua Zeichner, the director of cosmetic and clinical research in dermatology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City

Color correct the cyst away. “Use makeup with a slight green tinge to help mask redness and blend your pimple into your natural skin tone.” —Nazarian

Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney Kardashian Sued Over Beauty Line

Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney Kardashian are the target of a new lawsuit. (Photo: Getty Images)
Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney Kardashian could be on the hook for more than $200 million for not tweeting about their own makeup line … this according to a new lawsuit.

Hillair Capital Management claims it ponied up more than $10 million to save the Kardashian sisters’ struggling cosmetics line, “Kardashian Beauty” … after their former business partner went belly up.
As we previously reported, the Kardashians originally partnered up with a company called Boldface in 2012, launching a makeup line called “Khroma Beauty.”

Problem was … a year later, a judge blocked the company from using the name “Khroma.” The girls changed the name to “Kardashian Beauty,” but Boldface started tanking.

A savior stepped in … Hillair Capital Management, buying out Boldface and sinking $10 mil into the business.

Hillair now claims the Kardashian girls didn’t hold up their end of the bargain by blasting out the virtues of “Kardashian Beauty” to their millions of followers.

Hillair wants its $10 mil back plus what they would have made … up to $180 mil.

if you have got nothing to lose, then you need to step up your hustle: SHARE IF YOU AGREE