• Mind

    2022 Year End Review-Reading

    I used to be an avid reader,  then life and the pull of televisions and cell phones diminished the amount I read.  I do love a good self-help book and would read 3-5 per year but to read a book for pleasure with no learning required was something I had not done since Dan Brown’s book The Davinci Code was the hot new read.  I borrowed the book from a friend and then read everything the library had in stock that he wrote.  While working on my degree I did not have time for pleasure reading and when I finished school the pull of the self-help books called.  Last year…

  • Body,  Mind

    30 Days Sugar Free

    What started out as just a two week test has lasted thirty days.  As I mentioned in the previous blog, right away I noticed being able to focus.  This has continued as has a noticeable increase in energy. I have only taken two or three naps after work this month.  Much better than the daily nap that I was needing.  I am not sure if it is the lack of sugar and carbs or the reduction of my naps but I am sleeping better at night and I am no longer hitting the snooze button twenty times before actually getting up in the morning. I feel productive, many nights I…