Read This Feed: Jena Wellness

January 5th, 2010 | Posted by Ettore in Fitness | Other Blogs | Peace of Mind | Sex - (0 Comments)

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Jena La Flamme is a Writer/Speaker/Certified Holistic Health Counselor/Weight Loss Coach as well as being the Jena Wellness Center. A real renaissance woman in the field of “being better”, Jena has an interesting and useful blog on her website JenaWellness.com.

Jena’s career in the healing arts began 11 years ago during her first visit to India. Touched by the message that the fulfillment we seek already resides within us, Jena launched into focused study of nutrition,yoga and meditation, where she experienced their power first hand, and her life was transformed.

Jena is now primarily a speaker. She speaks to groups of varying sizes, from small and intimate to groups of several hundred. No group is too big for Jena! Her ideal speaking opportunity? An organization that is passionately devoted to the health of its employees or a professional women’s group. (Via Her Blog’s About Page)

F&S readers who are interested in losing weight in the new year would be interested in checking out some posts from Jena’s blog such as:

You can also find Jena IRL (in real life) at some of her live-workshops, which you can read more about on her homepage.

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Steve Jobs Commencement Speech. “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”

December 14th, 2009 | Posted by Chris in Peace of Mind - (0 Comments)

This is probably my favorite speech of all time. Steve Jobs addressed Stanford’s 2005 graduates discussing some major lessons he learned in his lifetime.

Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks—including death itself—at the university’s 114th Commencement on Sunday in Stanford Stadium.

Wearing jeans and sandals under his black robe, Jobs delivered a keynote address that spanned his adoption at birth to his insights into mortality after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer about a year ago. In plainspoken terms, his address struck a balance between the obstacles he has encountered during his notably public life and the lessons he has gleaned—for example, from his high-profile ousting in 1985 from the computer company he helped start. (via Stanford News)

Check out the video here:

After the jump is the full text of Jobs’ speech, which is full of awesome quotables:

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TED Talk of the week: Ben Dunlap Talks About A Passionate Life

December 4th, 2009 | Posted by Chris in Peace of Mind - (0 Comments)

TED is is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.

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This week’s TEDTalk features Wofford College president Ben Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who taught him about passionate living and lifelong learning.

Before coming to Wofford, Dunlap held faculty appointments at both Harvard (as a visiting professor in 1972) and the University of South Carolina (1968-1992). While at USC, he won numerous awards for teaching and scholarship, including the Russell Award for Distinguished Scholarship (1980), the University of South Carolina Teacher of the Year Award (1974), the Outstanding Teacher of English Award (1974), the South Carolina College Outstanding Professor Award (1984) and the Mortarboard Excellence in Teaching Award (1991).

Before being elected the 10th president at Wofford, Dr. Dunlap was the Chapman Family Professor of Humanities for seven years (1993-2000). In addition to cross-disciplinary courses, Dunlap’s teaching fields include Asian Studies, European literature and creative writing. He continues to team-teach the Wofford College Presidential Seminar.

Dr. Dunlap is a frequent moderator for the Aspen Institute’s Executive Seminars as well as its Crown Fellowship Program. He was also on the 2007 Board of Governors of the Spartanburg Area Chamber of Commerce. He has taught and lectured widely in Europe, India, Thailand, and Japan. He has served as a Fulbright professor in Thailand and a Japan Society Leadership Fellow in Japan (Via Wikipedia)

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Baz Luhrmann’s “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)”

November 27th, 2009 | Posted by Chris in Peace of Mind - (0 Comments)

On this frantic day America dubs Black Friday, we’d just like to reunite you with a great little video from Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann‘s album Something For Everybody.

Now 10 things you didn’t know about this video:

  1. Released in 1998, the video is not written by Luhrmann, it’s simply the director’s depiction of an essay titled “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young” written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997.
  2. In her introduction to the column, she described it as the commencement address she would give if she were asked to give one.
  3. The song features a spoken-word track set over a mellow backing track. The “Wear Sunscreen” speech is narrated by Australian voice actor Lee Perry.
  4. The backing is the choral version of “Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good)”, a 1991 song by Rozalla, used in the film William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet
  5. baz_luhrmann_something_for_everybodySomething for Everybody, the album this was taken from, was released by Baz Luhrmann in 1998. It contained new ambient versions (either newly recorded or remixed) of music from his films and plays.
  6. The track was a part of the end credits in John Swanbeck’s film The Big Kahuna, starring Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito and Peter Facinelli.
  7. There are four versions of the song: the original 7:09 minutes mix from the album Baz Luhrmann Presents: Something For Everybody; a 1999 single release which features an 5:05 minutes edit that lacks both choruses
  8. The video which uses the 1999 single edit of the song was directed and animated by Bill Barminski
  9. Hawaiian comedian and observational humorist Frank de Lima recorded Eat Rice which includes island-style advice such as, “Laugh at ethnic jokes; you’re ethnic, whether you like it or not.”
  10. Dennis Leary also parodied the song with “Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 99 – Drink beer.”

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Anthony Robbins Discusses Motivation During This Economic Crisis

November 16th, 2009 | Posted by Chris in Peace of Mind - (1 Comments)

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Life Coach/Motivational Speaker Anthony Robbins has some good advice on how to deal with the current economic depression that we are facing. When Tony sat down with Matt Lauer on the Today Show. Matt and Tony discussed the recession, 9/11, and emotional fitness. Check out the video here:

We’ll be doing a full read this feed on Tony in the future, follow our RSS for more inspiration and growth. To see Tony’s talk about 9/11 and human motivation click here.

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or, visit Tony’s website.

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The 411 on this Dr. Oz character..

November 13th, 2009 | Posted by Chris in Fitness | Food | Nutrition | Peace of Mind | Sex - (0 Comments)

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If you live in the New York area, you’ve more than likely seen the mug of Dr. Mehmet Oz mozying along on the side of a city bus. Having personally witnessed this ad about 1,000 times I gave in. I tuned in and checked out what the good doctor had to say (check out your local listings here).

Here’s  a clip from a recent episode:

It turned out that the Dr. Oz show was incredibly informative and relevant to issues that come u in everyday life. Whether it’s staying clear of germs at the supermarket or how to reduce the amount of gas you have, Dr. Oz seems to have all the answers. After being mesmerized by the show two afternoons in a row, I decided to get the skinny on this entertaining, and inspiring man.

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Do Better. Say Anything’s call to action…

November 9th, 2009 | Posted by Chris in Peace of Mind - (0 Comments)

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Alternative rock band Say Anything recently released their 4th Full Length album entitled “Say Anything.” As a departure from their usually pessimistic lyrics, Say Anything’s lead singer/songwriter Max Bemis decided to write an optimistic call to action.

In the song, Bemis cries “You could do better, You could be the greatest man in the world” These lyrics remind me of the teachings of Anthony Robbins and other popular motivational speakers.  Take a listen:

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Read This Feed: Experiments in Lifestyle Design (The Official Blog of Tim Feriss)

November 4th, 2009 | Posted by Chris in Fitness | Peace of Mind - (0 Comments)

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One of my very favorite blogs on the internet is Experiments in Lifestyle Design (The Official Blog of Tim Feriss) The blog which was launched into the Technorati top 1000 after his first book, The Four Hour Work Week,  became a New York Times #1 best seller.

Feriss coined the phrase “Lifestyle Design” which is the cultivation of “life-hacks” in order to make one’s life more efficient. Tim is also known for his application of the Pareto Principle to business and personal life. He has also taken the position that technology such as email, instant messaging and internet-enabled PDA’s complicate life rather than simplify it.

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Do you think too much?

August 21st, 2009 | Posted by Ettore in Peace of Mind - (0 Comments)

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It is the nature of the mind to make things much more complicated than they actually are.  Since we believe things are complicated we look for complications.  In finding complications it confirms that things are complicated creating a cycle of thinking too much.  This cycle of thinking to much causes a ceaseless and constant chatter within our awareness, in a sense rooting our awareness within our minds as it is demanding our attention. (more…)

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