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The Science Behind Why You Need a Hobby
Our bodies weren’t designed to be in a constant state of stress. To put it simply, you can’t work all the time and not feel the negative effects. The solution? Create a rhythm of rest and work.
High achievers find this hard to believe. When you are driven by the need to achieve, it can be difficult to make time for something that doesn’t tangibly move you closer to your goals. I fell into this trap for years. But the facts are there. Practicing self-care—and, in particular, maintaining a hobby—provides your brain the opportunity to focus on something else, freeing up and recharging your mental energy. When you invest time on something you enjoy outside of work, you gain a greater level of clarity, creativity, and various health benefits—and ultimately improve the quality of your work.
Here are five ideas for hobbies you could engage in and the science behind the benefits they provide:
Exercise. Exercise yields numerous physical health benefits. It also improves brain function. A study out of Harvard showed physical activity can lead to enhanced creativity, quicker learning, sharper memory, and improved concentration. Studies also show that exercise increases overall job satisfaction and productivity.
Outdoor recreation, such fishing or hiking. Getting outdoors is a great way to counterbalance the stress you experience at work. Research shows that just 20–30 minutes outside a day significantly reduces cortisol and stress levels.
Cooking and gardening. Developing skills with these types of hobbies can boost your self-esteem and increase your happiness. Not only that, but gardening can lower your risk of stroke, osteoporosis, and dementia.
Creative activities, such as photography, painting, or music. Artistic hobbies improve your overall health and well-being. In fact, individuals who play an instrument experience better connectivity between the left and right sides of their brains, improving cognitive function.
Reading. Many people love curling up with a good book. Not only is it enjoyable, but researchers out of Sussex University found that reading can lower stress by as much as 68%.
I challenge you to think of something outside of your work that you love. Something that inspires you and ignites your passion. Investing time into a hobby has not only enriched my life personally, but I have seen it raise my creativity and productivity at work as well. It can do the same for you. What are you waiting for?
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4 Essential Tools for Achieving More in Less Time
You’ve set ambitious goals for the year. To achieve them, you will need to equip your team with tools to operate as productively and creatively as possible.
At Michael Hyatt & Company, we have found it critical to streamline our processes and maintain maximum efficiency as we expand. Doing this intentionally will boost your bottom line, as well as help your team maintain the work-life balance they need to sustain their high productivity long term.
Over the years, my team and I have tried several methods for doing this. After quite a bit of testing, we’ve landed on 4 tools that make a substantial difference.
Asana. As our team grew, we needed a project management tool to manage our long-term projects in a streamlined way across multiple departments. We’ve used Asana for several years now, and it continues to be extremely effective. It saves quite a bit of time, as everyone on the team knows who is responsible for each area of a project and sees their goals broken down into actionable steps with clear due dates.
Slack. One of the constant struggles my clients bring up is the amount of time they spend sorting and responding to emails. That’s why, at Michael Hyatt & Company, we’ve switched to Slack for internal communication. It essentially incorporates instant messaging, email, and file sharing all in one place, and allows our team to effectively collaborate on projects even in a remote work environment. Over the years I have tried other similar tools, but ultimately found Slack the best for working efficiently.
BackBlaze. Backblaze is a cloud-based computer backup system that runs each day to ensure that your computer is backed up without you needing to manually do it. Once you set it up, it runs in the background. Let’s face it, technology fails sometimes, and without this in place you can lose all of your hard work and waste countless hours getting back up to speed.
Full Focus Planner. In order for high achievers to keep track of their goals and make steady, incremental progress, you need a tool designed just for you. That’s where the Full Focus Planner comes in. It facilitates goal tracking and review and enables you to prioritize your tasks so that you maintain momentum.
Help your team reach their highest potential without sacrificing their work-life balance. With the right tools in place you can achieve more with less time.
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The Secret to Achieving More: A Good Night’s Sleep
Caught between the demands of life and work, sleep is often one of the first things to get cut. It’s even become a sort of value-signaling to prioritize work over sleep. But what if sleep is the very thing you need to actually accomplish more?
The National Sleep Foundation recommends that healthy adults get between seven to nine hours of sleep per night. But according to the CDC, one-third of American adults get fewer than six hours of sleep a night. I have fallen into this trap myself. I have sacrificed a good night’s sleep in the name of productivity. The thing is, staying up late will actually backfire. Insufficient sleep causes fatigue, which impairs your ability to perform. It also has detrimental health effects, including elevated stress hormones, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and stroke.
Without enough sleep you will start the next day with an inability to focus, slow reaction time, and impaired mental performance. This will all combine to make it more difficult to achieve your goals. The solution? Prioritize sleep.
Here are four key benefits to sleeping the recommended number of hours per night:
Sleep enhances your mental clarity. Have you ever found yourself at work and unable to answer a question? Your mind has suddenly gone blank. Without sleep you aren’t able to perform your best. According to the National Sleep Foundation, insufficient sleep has an estimated economic impact of over $411 billion each year in the United States alone.
Sleep improves your ability to learn and grow. Without proper sleep, the neurons in your brain aren’t able to function properly. This prevents your consolidating and recalling information effectively.
Sleep refreshes our emotional state. You have probably heard the phrase “woke up on the wrong side of the bed.” What this phrase highlights is actually how lack of adequate sleep makes you more likely to be angry, sad, or irritable. Sleep lowers the stress chemicals in our brain and improves our overall mood.
Sleep revitalizes our bodies. Research shows that while you sleep, your body is busy at work resetting nearly every tissue in your body. It’s essential for every organ. Prioritizing sleep will boost your immune system, cardiovascular health, and more.
Our bodies are designed to function best with sleep. In the moment, when you’re thinking about staying up late to finish a project, you may think it’s your best option in order to achieve more. But, ultimately, if you want to win at work and succeed in life, it all must begin with a good night’s sleep.
Discover the Secret Tea You Could Make from Ingredients in Your Kitchen Right Now That Burns Belly Fat Like Crazy!
Guest post by Liz Swann Miller
You’ve likely heard of green tea and black tea but have you heard about red tea?
If you haven’t, I urge you to take a few minutes to read this short article – if you are looking to lose weight you are not going to be disappointed.
That’s because red tea, even more so than green or black tea, activate your body to burn unwanted fat.
It’s true, this tea is being called “the tasty way to flush away extra pounds.”
The tea, itself … which some call ‘voodoo tea’ even though the benefits it produces are real and definitely not ‘voodoo’ … was discovered in the wilds of Africa where Kenyan tribesmen drink it to eliminate hunger pangs while they hunt for their next meal.
I myself used the tea, which is delicious by the way, to lose 14 pounds in 14 days and since I’ve started drinking the tea I’ve now lost a total of 41 pounds.
My story is not unique. Thousands of people are losing weight with this incredible tea.
And I, for one, couldn’t be more excited – I see this tea as the weight loss answer to what many people have been looking for. In my practice as a naturopath, prospective clients often come to me struggling to understand why everything they’ve tried to lose weight in the past hasn’t worked for them.
They’ve suffered too many fat loss failures, because their doctors are just like mine … unhelpful and absolutely wrong, telling them they aren’t working hard enough when in reality, they’re doing everything they’re supposed to do!
But with red tea losing weight does not have to be difficult. By drinking this tea, you can switch from carbohydrate burning to high-octane fat burning like flipping a light switch.
This tea has become my “secret” weapon. Thanks to it almost every one of my clients can lose up to 14 pounds in just 14 days.
This tea allows dieters to:
● Block uncontrollable hunger and cravings…
● Prevent mood changes and irritability caused by low blood sugar…
● Eliminate rebound weight gain triggered by skipping meals and…
● Boost energy levels with no midafternoon energy slumps…
You can flush fat away and drop pounds and inches by drinking a delicious red tea that is actually good for you.
And as an added perk, my clients’ lab test results show better blood work numbers, too.
To make the tea even more effective, I have created a complete 14 day detox plan that takes full advantage of the tea and three weight loss principles that I’ve discovered to maximize the amount of fat you can lose.
Two of the three principles are against how most doctors say you should go about losing weight but combined with the tea they are producing amazing results in dieters across the world.
The three principles are:
• Principle 1 – Eat MORE, Weigh LESS. The old rules of dieting have been telling you to eat less… so you end up feeling deprived and starving with tiny portions. Forget about that.
• Principle 2 – Reduce STRESS, Restore Hormone BALANCE. This new rule is about reducing your chronically high stress levels and balancing your hormones. You will feel CALMER and Weigh LESS.
• Principle 3 – Exercise LESS, lose MORE Weight. Scientists have made astonishing discoveries … and a recent breakthrough is something scientists call the exercise “sweet spot.” Your sweet spot is the exercise intensity level where the full fat-burning power of your body is unleashed, so your body draws on fat stores for fuel. You are NOT exercising harder. You are exercising smarter. Do this right, and fat layers under your skin vanish… excess pounds disappear… you can drop a dress or a pant size in 2 weeks… as your whole body becomes firmer, sexier and trimmer.
Sadly, most people are eating too little and exercising too much… and this actually works against their fat loss.
With The Red Tea Detox System, we are changing this “wrong thinking” and helping people lose more weight faster. With The Red Tea Detox, there are no more diet failures … No more guilt or remorse. When you drink it regularly, and follow our simple rules, you can quickly shed 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 or more pounds.
With this program, you can soon be wearing those clothes you used to love to wear … and you can always feel the energy you love to have.
The great thing about The Red Tea Detox System is that it is based on more than a decade of research and almost three years of real-world testing.
It’s a complete program that quickly detoxes the body to “flush away” fat, and it works fast, for everyone – no matter how much or how little you have to lose.
With The Red Tea Detox System, you can strip off five, ten, fifteen pounds of fat or more in just 14 days.
And if you want to lose more weight, simply repeat the program until you reach your goal.
Another great thing about red tea is that you don’t have to travel to Africa to get it (like I did). You can make this tea using ingredients you likely have in your kitchen right now or that are definitely available at the local grocery store.
Now I can’t share this secret recipe with you right here, but I can tell you about the five ingredients within the tea that have been shown to enhance metabolism and burn fat.
Secret Ingredient #1 – I call this the incredible fat-cell shrinker. It contains a unique bioflavonoid which reduces stress hormones that contribute to hunger and the storage of fat while it increases glucose uptake to aid in the balance of blood sugar levels and insulin resistance.
That means you’ll feel more energized while you get thin, because this special ingredient has been shown to inhibit the production of new fat cells!
But even more important, this ingredient’s powerful antioxidants protect the liver against damage, aid in reducing cholesterol, help regulate your blood sugar levels, and even improve your mood.
Now, it’s important that this ingredient is mixed at just the right amount. That’s why you’ll need to download the recipe today and follow it exactly… Otherwise, you won’t get the results you want! Moving on…
Secret Ingredient #2 – This 2nd unique ingredient decreases calorie intake with a mechanism that works by blocking dietary fat digestion and then acting as an antioxidant and reducing inflammation.
Plus, it increases feelings of fullness and enhances glucose and fat metabolism … So you burn more fat while absorbing fewer calories! This is important because it means you can still eat plenty of food, and your body will simply take fewer calories, making it easy to lose weight.
Secret Ingredient #3 – This 3rd unique ingredient increases blood flow and stimulates the secretion of adrenaline to boost your metabolic fat-burning rate while it also improves insulin sensitivity and lowers cholesterol.
It is a great detoxifier, and it even helps your digestive system clear food faster, keeping your whole body cleaner.
Secret Ingredient #4 – The 4th unique ingredient is a diuretic, so it promotes urine flow but without altering the excretion of sodium & potassium, and it won’t cause dehydration. This is critical to detoxing your body the right way!
It promotes the functioning of the kidneys and liver and increases the amounts of various enzymes in the digestive tract, so it helps improve digestion and flushes the fat.
Again, it’s incredibly important that you use these ingredients in just the right amount. If you just mix them all together without the recipe, you won’t enjoy the body detoxing, fat-burning, energy-boosting effects you need!
Secret Ingredient #5 – The final unique ingredient in this red tea helps the body to metabolize carbohydrates more effectively.
It has been shown to lower insulin resistance while stimulating metabolism, helping prevent increased fat storage by ensuring that lower blood sugar levels are maintained.
This special spice improves the speed of digestion and gives relief from gas and bloating too. It makes this red tea taste delicious… And it adds a powerful fat-burning boost!
To find out how to combine these ingredients to create delicious, fat-burning red tea, click here now. The Red Tea Detox System is changing the way people lose weight, and it could be just what you need to reach your weight loss goals. Visit now to learn more and discover if the program is right for you.
Discover the Amazing Weight loss & Health Benefits of Red Tea
Guest post by Liz Swann Miller
A common mistake made by many dieters is not taking into account what they drink. The truth is the fluids you consume can have just as big an impact on your waistline – and your health – as the foods you eat.
Of course, that means for dieters who are serious about losing weight – no more soda and no more alcohol … But what about green tea and black tea?
Are these teas good for you – or could they actually cause you to gain unwanted weight?
The answer may surprise you. You see, most people think green tea, in particular, can help you lose weight not gain it … But that may not necessarily be the case.
Several studies have shown that green tea does not affect weight loss.
For example, a study published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2009 found that green tea extract did not affect the resting metabolic rate of 12 normal weight men.
Meanwhile, a Cochrane Review of green tea research found that green tea led to only small, statistically insignificant weight loss in overweight or obese adults. The review also noted that regular consumption of green tea didn’t help people keep weight off.
In addition to these alarming findings, there could be another problem – if you are putting sugar into your green tea that could be a source of extra calories that you are not accounting for.
According to experts, some people who are frequent tea drinkers may consume up to 300 calories or more a day from sugar.
So what about Black tea?
Black tea is actually “burnt green tea,” and it is full of caffeine just like regular green tea. Ingesting too much caffeine can cause heart palpitations, nausea, vomiting and “jittery” feelings.
Even if you drink decaffeinated green or black tea, the decaffeination process destroys much of the natural ingredients. It makes more sense to drink a tea that naturally contains no caffeine (like the tea I’m going to reveal in just a moment).
Another common problem with black tea is that it is often taken with milk, which slows down the absorption rate of valuable antioxidants and polyphenols. Surprisingly, skim milk slows this process down at a greater extent than whole milk.
So if green tea and black tea are not ideal for weight loss what should the responsible dieter drink?
The answer was found in the jungles of Africa where Kenyan tribesmen drink red tea to eliminate hunger pangs while they hunt for their next meal.
Red tea not only gets rid of hunger pangs, but it also promotes fat burning and boosts energy without relying on caffeine. That’s right, red tea is caffeine free.
Red tea is basically the perfect health drink. It’s refreshing and tasty, hot or iced. It helps clear toxins … it reduces fat-storing hormones … and it promotes the production of fat-burning hormones … all while naturally reducing stress and balancing insulin.
I’m a naturopath, and I’ve spent years studying the benefits and side effects of each of the 5 unique ingredients that go into red tea. It’s these ingredients, which can be found at the local supermarket, working together that makes red tea the ultimate metabolism-boosting, fat-busting, energy-revitalizing drink … and these ingredients are not found in green or black tea.
Red tea is caffeine free, vegan and vegetarian safe, dairy free, gluten free and sugar-free.
It’s a great alternative to caffeine — with absolutely no jitters, so “flushing fat away” is safe and rapid. Red tea also contains no fats or carbohydrates. The flavor is mild and slightly sweet.
One more thing about red tea, it has no oxalic acid, so there is no risk of kidney stones, unlike with black and green teas. It also has very low tannin levels so it’s much better for you than green and black teas that have high tannin levels and can bind iron.
One great thing about red tea is that it is packed full of powerful antioxidants that fight oxidative damage caused by toxins in your body and that are scientifically proven to have an antibacterial, antiparasitic and antiviral action to boost your immunity.
The bottom line is drinking delicious red tea not only “halts hunger” but can also reverse the harm caused by the built-up toxins in your fat cells with its powerful antioxidants.
That’s why I believe that red tea could be the breakthrough many people who have been struggling to lose fat have been waiting for.
It’s a delicious red tea that requires no doctor’s visits, no lectures about losing weight, no expensive pills, no starving yourself and no intense workouts…
And best of all — it helps eliminate harmful fat by working with your body’s natural fat-burning metabolism and doing it all — without you feeling any cravings or hunger pangs!
Imagine … Enjoying the foods, you love: steak, a beer, or even a dessert completely guilt-free.
Imagine … Living a life free of expensive prescriptions and endless doctor’s visits to renew the pills.
And imagine… Feeling good, and living your life without obsessing about every single calorie you eat…
… All while knowing your health is being protected by one of the most powerful natural healing red teas ever discovered.
That’s what is possible with the new Red Tea Detox Program utilizing red tea along with several myth-busting diet rules this program can help you lose up to 14 pounds in just 14 days.
With the program, you get everything you need to lose weight including the red tea recipe and all the sources for the 5 unique ingredients (which can be found at any grocery store for pennies).
You also get:
• A complete 14-day meal plan that includes recipes for satisfying, delicious snacks to halt any cravings instantly. The meal plan covers four phases: The Red Tea Detox Diet Phase 1: Days 1 – 5; The Red Tea Detox Phase 2: Day 6; The Red Tea Detox Phase 3: Days 7 and 8; Phase 4: Calorie Restriction Based on BMR
• The Red Tea Detox Exercise Plan, which has the potential to almost double your fat-burning results.
• The Red Tea Detox Willpower Motivation and Mindset Plan, which dispels the common myths about willpower and makes sure you, stay motivated to lose a maximum amount of weight.
The Red Tea Detox works equally well for both women and men. It also doesn’t matter if you have a lot of weight to lose or just a few pounds, it can quickly help you achieve your weight loss goal. This program is ideal for anyone who is concerned about their health (especially if you are over the age of 35) … Anyone who wants to lose stubborn fat around their belly, butt, and thighs … Anyone who wants to lose weight without feeling hungry or unsatisfied.
It doesn’t matter how stubborn that belly fat has been The Red Tea Detox can help you lose unwanted weight. You’ll rebalance your fat loss hormones and unblock crucial metabolic fat-burning steps so you can control your fat-burning and fat-storing hormones and do it as easy as 1-2-3.
To learn much more about this powerful program and how it can help you lose even the most stubborn fat, click here now. No other detox program contains these 5 unique ingredients scientifically proven to unlock stubborn fat cells, release hard-to-lose fat deposits, and flush fat away.
Your body uses multiple steps to release fat naturally. Even if just one step is blocked, your fat loss will grind to a halt. This gets crucial the older you get because you are more likely to have one or more of these steps blocked.
The Red Tea Detox System unblocks all these steps – that’s why it is 100% guaranteed to help you burn fat and lose all the weight you want.
Click here to learn more.
Is There Really a Relationship Between Drinking Tea & Losing Weight?
Guest post by Liz Swann Miller
There I was standing in the wilds of Africa with a massive, red, venomous snake looking right at me and a single thought racing through my mind –“why in the world did I risk my life for this cup of tea?”
The truth is I was looking for what I considered to be the weight loss “holy grail” – a tea that legend claimed completely erased hunger pangs.
The story so intrigued me that I decided to leave the comfort of my home in the US and venture into a remote area of Africa populated by a Kenyan tribe to find out if the tales about this ‘voodoo tea’ were true.
What I discovered changed my life, in that it has allowed me to lose 41 pounds of unwanted fat.
That’s right, not only did the tea really exist (and it’s definitely not ‘voodoo’) but it turned out to be even better than the stories let on.
You see, not only does the tea get rid of hunger pangs; it also activates your body’s natural ability to burn fat. On top of all that, it also boosts your energy without containing potentially harmful caffeine.
I’m going to tell you all about this incredible tea, including how you can get the recipe, in just a minute. But before I do that, let me explain in a little more detail how I ended up in the jungles of Africa.
The first thing you should know about me is that I have degrees in both Psychology and Naturopathy and for over 10 years, I’ve been a practicing Naturopath (ND) specializing in healing through nutrition.
Basically, what that means is, I help people lose weight and improve their health through their diet. Naturally, when I heard about this amazing tea, I was excited.
The fact that I heard the story while I was battling excess weight myself is ultimately what led me to Africa.
At that time, my pregnancy had really taken a toll on me. After multiple complications, I was put on bed rest … I spent 80% of my time stuck in bed, and I was forced to give up the active lifestyle I loved.
I became sluggish. I felt exhausted all the time. Eventually, I developed a sweet tooth, and I absolutely lost control of my weight.
I felt like a fraud. Here I was helping people all over the country lose weight and get the bodies they wanted while I was lying in bed looking worse than I have in my entire life.
Honestly, I felt disgusted with myself, and even though my husband was very supportive, telling me he didn’t care what I looked like, I knew deep down he just wasn’t attracted to me anymore.
Finally, I decided to face the music. I got on the scale one day after having my baby and saw that I was 41 pounds over my target weight.
I couldn’t believe it. I went back to bed and cried.
If you’ve ever gained extra fat, if you’ve ever felt like your body was out of control, I know how you feel. More importantly, I now have a solution that works. It’s fast, easy, and it tastes delicious. I’m going to tell you more about this tea in just a second.
This is the very same tea that helped me drop every one of those 41 hard-to-lose pounds. I feel that weight loss coupled with the success stories of so many others who have followed my program more than justify my “crazy” trip deep into the jungles of Africa.
Now, about that tea…
To put it simply, red tea has the most remarkable “fat-flushing” action I’ve discovered in 15 years of traveling the world as a Medical Maverick.
I’ve seen some truly mind-blowing fat-loss results, but this red tea is by far the most impressive, most incredible thing I’ve ever discovered.
In studying the tea, I’ve learned that its 5 unique ingredients are scientifically proven to trick stubborn fat cells to open and release hard-to-lose fat.
That means it’s now possible to flush away years — if not decades — of unwanted fat simply by drinking this powerful beverage.
Without getting too much into the science and boring you, the five herbal ingredients basically work in harmony to transmit signals from your brain to your fat cells to burn unwanted fat. It allows you to shrink your fat cells without any feelings of hunger.
Up until now one of the main problems with trying to lose fat (especially around your belly) has always been getting stubborn fat cells to “let go” of the “locked in fat” so the body can “flush harmful toxins and fat away.”
Due to cutting-edge research, we now know that the hormone “Noradrenaline” may hold the key to unlocking fat cells and shrinking them.
In a landmark study at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the NIH, researchers showed that Noradrenaline is an arousing hormone known to control cell volume.
In other words, Noradrenaline is what causes the action of “the incredible shrinking fat cell.” It signals your body to start using your belly fat for energy.
Now here is the really good news:
People who drink this delicious red tea experience increased Noradrenaline production. That’s why they lose a lot of weight, particularly in the typically hard-to-lose belly area.
Let me repeat what I just said:
Results show that fat cell size and fat storing volume actually shrinks when you drink this red tea!
That is revolutionary information – and the benefits of drinking this tea don’t just stop with weight loss.
When I started drinking this incredibly delicious red tea, my entire mood changed. Instead of being exhausted, I had a ton of natural energy.
This red tea was unbelievably refreshing, and when I drank it, I was never hungry.
Drinking red tea also helped me completely eliminate my soda addiction.
I also noticed after a few days of drinking the red tea that I was sweating less. And my breathing was easier, in spite of the intense African heat, which often rose to a scorching 105 degrees!
Plus, even though I had to climb a massive hill to get to the village every day, I actually had more energy than ever before.
I started sleeping better, and waking up more rested and refreshed. I was even more relaxed and calm, despite having to deal with the hordes of flies that were in the area!
And that’s still not all the benefits that I noticed, my stress level dropped, and I was happier than I’d been in a very long time.
Of course, the weight loss was what really got my attention. The weight was really falling off me.
I lost almost 20 pounds that first month.
That’s when I knew … I wasn’t crazy for making that trip to Africa. In fact, it was probably the best decision of my life! I think red tea might just be one of the biggest weight loss discoveries of the past 50 to 100 years.
It is certainly working for many people who have struggled to lose weight in the past. To learn about the five ingredients that make up red tea (all are available at the local grocery store) click here. You’ll also learn more about how red tea can help you lose weight and get the body of your dreams.
Discover how red tea can help you fix your own “fat-burning glitch” visit Red Tea Detox today.