If you don’t get enough sleep every night it matters.

If you tell  yourself everyday that tomorrow is the day you start eating better it matters.

Cutting your workout routine short matters when you can’t get the results you want.

Everyday, everything you do matters. This may be an extreme way of thinking but it can also be a very real way of thinking. When you constantly complain about not being where you want to be in your company but do nothing about it, it mattters.

When you always tell yourself that you deserve that treat but want to lose 10 pounds it matters. 

Set higher expectations for yourself. Push yourself.  Invest in yourself now. Tomorrow doesnt exist today.

More, more, more. That’s what most things are about these days. Stores, food, technology. Bigger and better. As a country we’re always trying to take then next step forward. The newest this, newest that. No matter what the occasion, we look towards the future. The newest fitness craze (don’t even get me started on this one).

What about taking a step back?

Most of the time things can be done with less time and clutter then we’re used too. For example. This past weekend was my first time camping. (Great experience)! Tent, food/drinks in cooler, sleeping bags, clothes. Done. And what do you know….I’m alive! I made it. We were hiking, going to the beach, taking photos, eating, drinking, playing games, talking. All things that were extremely enjoyable without the clutter. It was hard for my wife and I to drive the 3 hours to our home up north. Not because we don’t like what we’re doing, we love it! Not because we had to do a bunch of chores when we got home, grocery shopping is fun to me. But because we were carefree for four days. We experienced a whole new life. A life worth living without dealing with the BS that goes on.

So get out, enjoy, take risks, spend money. You can always get it back. You can never get back time.

First of all, I feel like I’m becoming one of these people spilling their feelings out on a computer screen then saying look at me! I’m cool. More importantly, I like to bring up things that we can all share and hopefully learn from. If I ever start talking about how black is the new white just send me hate mail.

I’ve tried to start this blog multiple times. I’ve always had things “get in the way” which by the way is a fake saying. You choose what you do so that means I was just making excuses. Anyway, I love learning and reading about influential people. I’ve had multiple life changing experiences by seeing what others can do and the voice they have when they put themselves on the line. One of the main reasons I’ve had a hard time staying consistent with this is my feelings are spit across a screen for everyone to read. These days you can share everything with the world. So I was concerned with what other people though……There, that feels better. So let’s get to the point of this article.

What’s the worst that can happen? This should be our new motto. The last 10 years there’s been a lot written about failing in a positive way. What they’re saying is try new things, don’t be afraid, stick your neck out there. This is all very true. We’ve  become very comfortable with comfort. Does that make sense?…… Just getting by seems to be good for us recently. What if we always thought, what’s the worst that could happen? What if we thought that way with everything we did? Trying to find a  partner, getting a promotion, giving your two cents in a conversation, pushing yourself in the weight room.

Personally, I’m tired of putting everything off. I work with too many people who have told me “I wish I was younger, I would do things differently”. So, I’m going to keep writing this. I hope that anyone who glances at this leaves feeling like they can take a tiny step toward their next goal.

Here are a few of the things I want to achieve and finish that I’ve been putting off:

- I’ve written a small 90 page book. It’s in my computer but I do nothing with it. My goal is to finish it and make a free ebook out of it by November 1st.

- My wife and I have started a small Photography company, Ciccarelli Photography. We got rid of our old site and still havent decided what to use for our next host site. I have no idea why I havent gotten that up and running.  Website up and ready by September 12th.

- My goal has always been to get below 10% bodyfat. I always hover around 12 and 13. Only using BioSignature to measure my results. Not a hand-held tool that tells me some obscene number. My goal is to be 10% by December 1st.

- I would like to double my income. This one is the hardest to type. I don’t know why. I’m a nice person, not greedy. Money doesn’t rule my life at all. But the things I want to do and see require me to have more of it. Therefore its one of my goals. I want to double it by my birthday next year, June 28th.

I would love for Lifesavi to be a place where ideas are shared. Please let me know what you think. Send me a message if you have any ideas, anything at all. Things that are on your mind, what you want.

Thanks for reading.

But outside of work he is glued to his computer, playing games, playing games and playing games. He comes home from being on the computer all day to being on the computer all night. He stays up until 2am playing a variety of video and computer games. He takes part in zero physical activity. He is never outside and never hangs out with friends.

So lets take a few step back. What’s the point of college? Are you there to learn about the best career choice you can make? Are you there to learn how to make it in the real world? Are you there to give yourself the best choices in life?  This is a very touchy subject. Is it okay for my colleagues son to only have a “good” job and that’s it? Has the son done what he’s been asked of him during school? Is this what life is about. Finding the best job and assuming other things will happen in your life?

Sorry, there are a lot of questions here but most are hard to answer. Some may not even be able to be answered.  My colleagues father is very frustrated with his sons situation (the son is lost in his own world). Could this be the parents fault? Is the father mad at the son at the expense of the father being the one to blame? Once again, a lot of questions but ones that we have a hard time answering.

In school and growing up the word success is drilled into our heads. Do we put too much emphasis on getting a good job? A job is a job. What about what you do outside of work? Does that matter?

Success is hard to define. Try it for a second. Is it one of those words that needs to have a concrete definition or is it your own definition?

here is a great final quote to the all the norms out there.

“When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect”.  – Mark Twain

Try not to think to hard about it. Think basic. This is what I think should be on the United States flag in small letter at the bottom. “Bigger and Better”. That seems to be the way we live our lives and the way companies run. unfortunately it’s the way we think about food. Maybe add in the word “easy”.

Jonny Bowden is a Nutrition nut. Far and above the best out there. One of his signature sayings is “Hunted, Gathered, fished and plucked”. Think of these words when deciding what to eat. Something with a bar code usually won’t get you very far.

So the next time you go to the grocery ask yourself, in prehistoric time what could they hunt? What were they gathering to eat? What were they fishing for? and on land what could they pluck and eat? This is great way of thinking when it comes to food. This shouldn’t be some “diet”you try. This should be a lifestyle.

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Humans don’t get enough antioxidants anyway. Why take out the little amount we do get through decaf?