Little Athletes Need Proper Hydration & Nutrition In Order To Perform Optimally
How are you hydrating and feeding your little (or not so little) athlete? Eating a healthy diet ensures that your athlete is getting all the nutrients his or her body needs to produce energy and create new muscle tissue, enzymes, and other cellular structures involved in energy metabolism. Proper nutrition can also help repair damage from training as well as everyday wear and tear, and it keeps the body’s muscles, bones, joints, tendons, and organs functioning optimally. You are taking your child to his or her sporting event. What have you provided for hydration and nutrition during and after the event? Sadly, Americans spend hundreds of millions of dollars on […]
Cosmic Bake Shop
“Relationships! We all got ‘em, we all want ‘em. What do we do with ‘em?” Jimmy Buffett’s catchy tune ‘Fruitcakes’ brings some truth about relationships and pokes fun at us as human beings on this planet. When the barometric pressure drops with my beau, I often take to the internet to explore relationship Band-Aids or tidbits to promote harmony. Like a good fudge brownie recipe, I thought I’d share from my recipe box to help you turn up the flame when cooking together for a stronger relationship. (Feel free to clip and save — more ingredients are listed below. Know yourself. To create a healthy, lasting relationship, two people often […]
Stranger Games | The Rise of eSports
When you think of sports, you might not think of the booming industry that is eSports. When you hear about games like Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), thoughts of teenage boys in their mother’s basement may come to mind, but these games have come a long way in the past 20+ years. D&D in particular has recently regained the popular culture spotlight through the wildly popular Netflix series Stranger Things. In the 1990s, before this most recent pop culture phenomenon, a grad student working toward his PhD in mathematics wanted to develop a game about programming robots. The company he pitched it to thought it would be too expensive, so he […]
Humility In The Workplace Leads To Success!
Humility isn’t about being passive and weak. It’s about showing respect and recognizing truth in all situations, including in the workplace. But among these many important attributes, the value of humility seems to be consistently overlooked. Part of this is due to common misconceptions about what humility is and what it means to be humble. In reality, however, humility is one attribute that no leader should do without. Part of the reason humility tends to be overlooked in the workplace is because it is frequently misconstrued as a “weak” attribute. We have been led to believe that people who are humble are easily bulldozed by others and are not willing […]
