Today I realized I’m a huge hypocrite, and it’s not helping my youngest child.

Coming home today, I learned about a smart phone challenge they did on one of my favourite podcasts, Note to Self. The two goal of this challenge were, to get people to realize how much they used their phone, and to help them reduce that dependency.

They brought up research that explored the consequences of phone addiction. For example, if you take pictures all the time, of everything in your life, you...

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I have been doing Crossfit for 4 years and I've noticed over this last year I have not improved very much.

Today I figured out why. When I am doing the workout and I feel I am too tired to continue, I stop and rest for a few seconds. This is not how one gets better.

What I should do, of course, is do at least one more rep. Always push myself to go one further or for a few more seconds.

My mental weakness stops now.

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What we are learning about our microbiome is amazing. Your mood might be caused by disturbances in your biome?

Neat stuff

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It seems that my priorities are changing as my kids get older. Now they are:

• Health
• Education

Simply put, healthy people are smarter, and properly educated people will change the word. And as I am wont to do, I have been sucking in TEDTalks and articles around "proper" learning and the "right" way to health. Healthwise, I wish more people:

• ate less processed food
• exercised regularly
• spent their money locally
• spent more time with friends and family

In terms of...

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