Routine... the real test is when you're alone and no-one is around to help keep you accountable.

What does your routine look like?

Prepare, Plan and Act.

You do it for bushfires.

Why not for your health?

Take the ACL as an example!

These Australian Bushfires have been the worst to date!

So much destruction and devastation that it's been heralded as an International Emergency!

Almost 1 week into this persistent ear ache I reflect on the Functional Medicine model to aid in getting rid of the ear aches.

Typically I keep healthy by keeping  the body moving, having a mindfulness practice, eat well and find tings that make me happy.

I also focus on keeping inflammation suppressed.

I do not frown on taking medications. When indicated it compliments the natural therapy of good healthy living I employ 95% of the time.

Right now I've been on NSAID, antibiotics and steroidal ear drops to get rid of this ear ache.

I just can't seem to shake it though!

Frustrating!!!

Tim Ferris has a TED talk on why you should set goals on your Fears rather then your Desires.

Very powerful idea to change your New Year Resolutions!

How do you keep new eyes when you see trouble on the horizon?

or...

How do you stay optimistic when everything is falling apart.

Consider seeing everything for the first time using 'New Eyes'.

Children are amazed by the simplest of things and that keeps them happy and optimistic.

We should try that too!

Every year we have the best intentions to plan for a bigger and better new year but sometimes our best laid plans fizzle out.

What do you employ to ensure you start the New Year on the right foot?

When you're booked out in the weeks leading up to Christmas you can feel overwhelmed.

One thing we work hard to employ is to keep some weekends 'free' strategically, so we have some quiet down load.

There's plenty of value in thinking time!

What's your strategy to keep time free to think?

Completing my weekly ice bath I developed the dastardly swimmer's ear when I finished off my 10 min effort but submerging my head under the water.

What innocently seemed like a head dunk continued to plague me for over a week!

Eeek! 

Moving on from our first apartment living together with my brother and his partner (now wife), Belinda and I decided it was time to establish our own little place.

What an adventure!