Life

The Hunger Games: You and Your 4 Hour Body

April 1, 2012
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I heard a quote the other day: “Compassion arises spontaneously from wisdom.” For a perfect world then we must all strive to be wise. People have criticized Tim Ferriss all over the blogosphere for lacking that essential human characteristic: Compassion. I think people often make this claim about anybody who is a good marketer. It [...]

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Best Possible Future Self: Day 1

March 14, 2012

Last week I proposed a homework assignment to those of us tracking our progress on 4 Hour Fit. Here are the instructions to the assignment: Think about your life in the future.  Imagine that everything has gone as well as it possibly could.  You have worked hard and succeeded at accomplishing all of your life goals. Think of this [...]

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Letting go of Attachment to an Outcome

January 11, 2012

Refuse to ever use the term “failure” again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that when things didn’t go as planned you didn’t fail, you only produced a result. Then ask yourself this powerfully life-enhancing question, “What am I going to do with the results I’ve produced?” And proceed to act in such a [...]

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Behavioral Time Machines: A Vision of You and Your Future Self

December 27, 2011

Right now is a compilation of everything from the past, that which you are experiencing as you read this blog post and the future which is happening just milliseconds beyond right now. It is also a variable of uncertainty. Our future self is neither guaranteed nor certain. The catch is that right now is always [...]

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A Reader’s Comment: Learn to take Joy from the Ordinary

December 15, 2011

Let’s face it, most of us are going to get many chances to save damsels in distress from rabid grizzly bears. One of the secrets of life…although it’s not much of a secret…is that you can take joy from the ordinary. What you want is to live the best life you can live for you, [...]

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The Mechanics Of Ordinary

December 5, 2011
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The week felt mechanical and ordinary: A production line in which was fabricated the workings of my day. The cogs that turn the gears that run the motors that perpetuate the machine that works to pay the bills. The mechanics of ordinary!   The “rat race” as I see it is filled with my kind, [...]

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The 4-Hour Funeral: An NR’s guide to Outsourcing the perfect Eulogy

September 26, 2011
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I just returned home from the funeral of a dear friend. She was 35 years old  and the circumstances around her untimely death are as breathtaking as the thought of a world without her gentle spirit. To those closest to her she was known as DOVE to the rest of us she would be simply [...]

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The Four Hour Body Cheat Day: God wants you to do it!

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I have been witness to a lot of debate recently among various Four Hour Body blogs and within the forums of whether or not you should have a cheat day as recommended by Tim Ferriss in the slow carb diet. This is pure nonsense! My answer: God wants you to do it (P.S. so does [...]

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Learning to Love Your 4 Hour Body

August 11, 2011

Exercising my Daemons in the Closet For much of my adolescent life I struggled with a poor self-image. This was exacerbated in my teen years by acne. I used to feel at times like a monster, this was unwarranted and vain, but is a sad truth. I know that I noticed these imperfections more than [...]

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The 4 Hour Body + The 4 Hour Workweek = The Evolution of A Superhuman

August 5, 2011

“The difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is that a warrior sees everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse.” Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda’s A Separate Peace There is value in the Four Hour Workweek that goes far beyond how to hire a [...]

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