(Deep Dive) In today’s deep dive, we’re donning our helmets and armor to explore how the spartan’s relationships to mental toughness helped them build resilience through motion and obstacle immunity in an effort for us to capture some of their fortitude in our lives today. 

Spartan Races

Mental habits of Spartan Races

History.com

Living like a modern Spartan

(Light Bite) This month, we're planning out how we'll be achieving our goals. When picking your strategy, you need to decide whether you'll be going all in or all out. We're discussing how much risk you can handle, balancing work and pursuits, and how to create a strategy for your future pursuits.

(Deep Dive) This week on the LIPS podcast, we're diving deep into competition. We explore how the temptation to look over one's shoulder right before the finish line is holding you back.

Read now: Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday PDF

(Light Bite) One habit to rule them all. The Cornerstone is your baseline routine from which all others cascade. Learning to harness an action for good can involve identifying the both positive and negative ripple effects that stem from what we do repeatedly. 

References 

Origins of the Book, Make Your Bed by Admiral William H. McRaven as inspired by his 2014 University of Texas Autin Commencement Address

https://www.ricklindquist.com/speeches/make-your-bed 

(Deep Dive) Our competitive edge is often our perspective on a challenge--it's the one factor that separates us from the crowd. This week, we learn how to enhance our outlook to leverage it towards success.

(Light bite) Neuroplasticity is our brain’s ability to change and adapt throughout our life. Essentially, it’s being able to touch your toes in the thought world. How we exercise our brains can have a profound impact on our cognition and memory, mood and optimism, learning ability and brain health.

Psychology Today Article - Cultivating Optimism

Pacific Neuroscience Institute - Cultivating Optimism with Neuroplasticity

(Deep Dive) The curse of the competent is a phrase created to describe how the people responsible for assigning tasks repeatedly assign more to the most capable people on their team than those who are less capable. This phenomenon is also called “Performance Punishment.”

This week, we explore professional competency and how to manage anger and prevent burnout.

References:

48 Laws of Power

(Light Bite) This week, we dive into the world of clubs, club sodas and club houses to give you the tools to navigate spaces where you can meet people with greater wealth and resources than you. We unpack the skills to getting started and get you ready to tee off!

We're diving into how so many people are "Lost in the Ingredient Label" when they're learning to evaluate healthy food options for themselves.
While I'm not a nutritionist--this is not nutrition advice--we're exploring how to evaluate food choices, read food labels and finding out the story behind why a Pringle is actually ~not~ a potato chip!

• Potato Chip Conundrum https://recipes.howstuffworks.com/pringles.htm#:~:text=In%202008%2C%20a%20lower%20British,Procter%20%26%20Gamble's%20argument%20that%20the 
• Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-14123339/Food-professor-reveals-Pringles-tubes-specifically-designed-going-evolution.html 
• Whole Food benefits https://orwfoundation.org/the-benefits-of-eating-whole-foods-why-its-time-to-cut-out-processed-foods/#:~:text=Eating%20whole%20foods%20can%20also%20help%20to%20regulate%20your%20blood,feelings%20of%20fatigue%20and%20irritability.
• Book: Ultra Processed People: The Food That Isn't Food by Chris Van Tullekin
• Quick Summary of UPP: https://readingraphics.com/book-summary-review-ultra-processed-people/
• Harvard Health Recommendations: https://www.health.harvard.edu/topics/nutrition#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20recent%20studies%20have,carb%2C%20or%20somewhere%20in%20between
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(Light Bite) Welcome to the very first Light Bite epsiode of the LIPS Podcast! Light Bites are short tidbit epsiodes, which air every Tuesday and help you set up your week!

In this week's episode, we chat about how adding spontaneous and fun activities can help you spice up your life and brighten your days, all without breaking the budget!

Watch the Productivity Peter video, "Train Your Brain to Automatically Reach Your Goals", here.