A Fruitcake....no a Fruitarian? Oh I see!

I'll take the fruitcake on this one. So apparently Ashton Kutcher who is playing Steve Jobs in the upcoming biopic jOBS,  immersed himself into the role so much so that he adopted Steve Jobs' fruitarian lifestyle. Quick study: Fruitarianism is the practice of only eating fruits, seeds and nuts. Some die hard fruities will only eat fruit that has fallen from the tree because they don't want to harm the tree or plant. Yes, this is for real. It's hippee gone to heaven, literally. Apple founder and genius, Jobs, died of pancreatic cancer and Kutcher eerily landed himself in the hospital doubled over in pain from this diet with his "pancreatic levels out of whack." The moral of this story is moderation. And for the record I do hate the term "moderation" or maybe I fear it. I have addictive tendencies and don't want to admit to myself that I will have to police my eating habits for the rest of my life. From the high-protein, no carb Atkins diet to the master cleanse lemonade diet, ....I am the queen of extreme diets because I am the D student when it comes to balance and *arrgh* m-o-d-e-r-a-t-i-o-n. I will let Ashton Kutcher and Steve Jobs be a lesson to me and anyone in the same boat that extreme diets can cause major harm to your body. I've never ended up in the hospital in pain from a diet, but carrying around yo-yo diet pounds all day, every day is like living in a casket. Okay that was depressing...but it's real deal holyfield here. So one more time for the road. M-O-D-E-R-A-T-I-O-N

Take good care of yourself!

Stress@work

I'm back!! Took some time off from blogging but I'm rested and ready to talk. So let's get to it.

There's a lot in the news these days about mental health, wellness and the impact of stress on the mind and body. Job stress can be the worst especially in this unstable economy. Most of us carry a certain amount of work stress and we cope with it by engaging in good and bad activities. Some of us exercise (GOOD) and some of us drink our problems away (BAD)...but I'm not pointing fingers at what you do to get by.  I just refuse to believe that merely getting by should be the norm. Well here's what my daddy told me when I was just knee-high to a grasshopper. He said to get relief from stress on your job...get a second job! I don't care if you are an attorney by day and have a paper route on the weekends. My daddy's thinking is that having multiple streams of income actually helps you sleep better at night. Not just because you are tired as heck from working "10 jobs mon" but because you know that you are no longer completely dependent on ONE paycheck. Even if you are only making chump change on your side hustle, the point is your self confidence is boosted because you know you have other skills and means to fall back on or could potentially grow into a primary source of income if you ever lost your main job. People that have multiple streams of income tend to be more creative and offer more "out of the box" solutions to their company's problems and show more initiative. Why? These self-starters are not afraid of making a mistake. They know to succeed you have to fail but you have something to fall back on if things got tough. Hey, if you don't want to believe my daddy, you can believe God. 

Ecclesiastes 11:6

Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both.

Free your mind from work stresses. It may go along way for your career endeavors and your overall health and well being. 

Take good care of yourself.