If you have nothing else but passion, you are strong enough to move mountains…. A month out from Ironman I was sweating anxiously at night, heart palpitating, kicking my own arse for entering in the first place. I was physically not prepared at all for this race and my reason for entering not at all that well thought through as it was. Thoughts of pulling out haunted me for nights!! I am incredibly passionate about triathlons and ever since 2014 when I was privileged enough to grace the podium twice at Olympic distance triathlons, the passion, desire, drive to do so more often multiplied a million times. Doing my first Ironman in 2015 confirmed to me that getting to qualify...
Motivation and enthusiasm manifest as desire and interest, and as a driving force that pushes you to take action and pursue goals. It wakens you with a sense of expectation and joy and a keen desire to share your success. However, it often happens that you have the desire and interest, but you lack the motivation. This is a frustrating situation, since you want to do a certain thing, but cannot get enough inner strength and motivation to act. This is so common as to almost be funny although its not. To rise above the mediocre you need to find that reason that place you above the mediocre. There are many reasons for the lack of motivation. It could...
Neuroscience NewsMarch 16, 2016FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscienceWhen one eats may be as important as what one eats. New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science and in Germany, which recently appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), suggests that the cells’ power plants – the mitochondria – are highly regulated by the body’s biological, or circadian, clocks. This may help explain why people who sleep and eat out of phase with their circadian clocks are at higher risk of developing obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Dr. Gad Asher of the Weizmann Institute’s Biomolecular Sciences Department, who led the study, explains that circadian clocks, which are found in living things from bacteria to flies and humans, control our rhythms...
Thank you to all those that attended the Cape Town Breakfast Debate. It was great fun once again and I really enjoy meeting the people that we interact with so regularly. You guys are awesome. I look forward to meeting many more. Sharing advice on the group as well as in the newsletter has its place but standing in front of you and listening to your questions as well as answers to questions has me wonder whether we have not chosen a hill too steep to climb. Then I stop for a moment and look at the spotlights that we regularly show you and I know that its well within every one of our means to correct weight, health and...
