Five Random Ideas for You

When my left knee started to click and my running partner could hear it, I quit running. That was in the '90s. Super Slow weightlifting has been my exercise of choice for the past sixteen years. This set of WhatAFit Resistance Bands arrived late last week. I bought them on Amazon for $59.94. In the picture, I’m curling 60# using the Red 50# band and the 10# yellow band. All five bands give you 150# of resistance. Maybe your gym is already open. If not, you may want to look into a solution like this.

The “Quarantine 15” is a thing now. Like the “Freshman 15,” it’s the fifteen pounds you’ll gain while you’re working from home. Here’s what I know for sure: Even if a pizza comes out of a 450-degree oven and is never touched until it gets to you, that doesn’t make it healthy. #lowcarb If you’re getting fast food at the drive-through window or getting it delivered, you’re on your way to your own “Quarantine 15” weight gain.

Sixty percent of Americans have one chronic disease. Forty percent of us have multiple conditions. Chronic diseases are caused by lifestyle, not germs. The obesity started epidemic long before the coronavirus pandemic. The annual cost of diagnosed diabetes in the U.S. is $327 billion, nearly a billion per day. (Full disclosure: My wife owns a diet business and I’m it’s VP of Anger Management. If you’re not angry about the bad advice our government has given us over the last forty years about what we should be eating, you’re not paying attention.) In Death by Food Pyramid, Denise Minger breaks it all down. Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Foods Took Over the American Meal by Melanie Warner is another eye-opener. Michael Pollan discusses “the high cost of cheap food” in this article. And, then there is expensive food. Sarah and I used to eat lunch in a restaurant seven days a week. That's close to $8,000 per year. Turns out, lunch at a home seven days a week is can be better for your body and your wallet.

I’m finding that I can get plenty of work done in four or five hours if that’s all I focus on. Can you imagine companies going back to eight-hour workdays? And can you imagine NOT working from home more? Read Stephan Aarstol’s The Five-Hour Workday and see if it convinces you to rethink how your work and how you lead.

My last idea is that “selfish selling” is a thing. I learned that term from James Muir, author of The Perfect Close. I quote him extensively in my latest knowledge bite. It’s a 3-minute and 15-second audio. I would love to send it to you. A knowledge bite is an easily digestible sales idea. I now have more than three hundred of them on this website. You can email me directly at [email protected] Put “bite” in the subject line and I’ll send it to you. No sales pitches. The training is better than my pitch for the training. That’s why I like to give people free samples.

And thanks to my friends at Max Media Denver for my workout t-shirt. Two months ago, it was my work at home t-shirt.