Easy snacks that help you lose weight

Posted by abraham.williams@gmail.com on in diet, fitness, Health, low carb

Skip sweets and bread-based snacks if you want to lose weight. Help your body switch over to utilizing fat as fuel with these low carb (except for the banana) snacks that help you feel less hungry.  If you are allergic to nuts, you’ll need to substitute. If you are a vegetarian, you probably won’t like my posts on food.  We can still be friends though. My daughter is “veg”. Sigh.
For portions, you don’t need many nuts, perhaps a handful or so. For fruit, just have one apple or one banana. 
  1. Nuts or seeds like pumpkin or sunflower seeds 
  2. Apple and peanut butter
  3. Nuts and small amount of dark chocolate
  4. Fruit and jerky 
  5. Applesauce with walnuts
  6. Any nut and fruit combo
  7. Tuna salad (tuna+mayo or yogurt+pickle or HOWEVER) on lettuce leaf
  8. Food replacement meal bar (very sparingly! Only use in a pinch.)
  9. Smoked salmon and capers or pickles
  10. Prosciutto and cheese
  11. Turkey and dried figs
  12. Peanut butter and banana
  13. Celery and peanut butter
  14. Carrots (two or so) and almond butter
Mix and match as you like!

Coach B!

Posted by abraham.williams@gmail.com on in Business, Health
Today, I got to work with Olympic Weight Lifting Coach Mike Burgener. It was a fantastic opportunity to learn from the best and I’m so glad I pushed to make it happen. We focused on the “snatch”, and I learned about my performance-limiting mistakes that have been with me for about four years now. It’s huge when you can work with an expert to raise your game.

I mentioned how I had improved my deadlift by doing single-limb bodyweight progressions, and he was not surprised. He conveyed one of his main principles, “range of motion before strength and bodyweight before barbells”. From there he conveyed how crucial range of motion is for technique and how bodyweight movement allows you to really learn how to move efficiently with that technique. People who are impatient and forgo technique so they can throw as much weight as they can end up having to go back and learn the fundamentals.  He also said, there is no such thing as overtraining…it’s really under recovery. That’s a huge topic to be covered later. I learned so much from him in just this one day.

In the last two months, I have accelerated my interactions with experts in business and sport and have been much the better for it. I recommend you look for experts in your fields of interest and find the quickest way to work them. Your velocity will increase as you catch the pivotal points they know like the back of their hand. Do it. Now.

Be responsible for everything in your life

Posted by abraham.williams@gmail.com on in Business, life, Success

Each time I find I’m irritated at something that’s happened to me, I can’t help but realize that I put myself in that place. If I’m unhappy because of a little yapping dog in my house, I have to acknowledge that I let that little rat into my house. If I’m unhappy because I’m not successful at work, I have to acknowledge that everything at work I’ve done I’ve done.  It wasn’t some manager to blame for not deciding to put me up for promotion. It was my actions prior that led to how I was perceived by the entire group of people around and above me. Either I wasn’t working in the right way or not working on the right things. These were choices that I made along the way. Likely, I wasn’t thinking big enough. If I want to be successful at work or anything, I need to be very specific on the aspect of successful I want and then move in that direction with an unstoppable drive. I need to change my actions to those that will create success.
Being responsible means thinking things through. Thinking things through helps you know if you will create something that helps you or injures you in the future.  We live with the choices we make whether they are conscious or not.  

Time management is a JOKE!

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If I have the choice between getting something extremely important to me done or getting a good night’s rest, I’m choosing to get things done.  I want to use every minute I have to make valuable things happen. I love to work constantly on what I think is valuable. I find when I’m not happy about something, it’s because I am not working enough. Now, when I say work on things, things can be anything…a business idea, family, having fun, or whatever.  When it’s time for a vacation and I haven’t planned something that is exactly what I want, what my wife wants and what will instill curiosity and verve in life for my kids, I’m pissed at myself for not taking the right amount of effort on something so important. Or, if I am in Yosemite, one of the greatest climbing areas in world, and I haven’t been properly trained at multi-pitch climbing, I’m thinking, “damn it!” 
I’ve mentioned vacation examples, but it is extremely important to bust ass when it comes to work because work enables life.  You may or may not have to work, but more than likely it was someone before you busting ass to create that for you. If you aren’t working on something, then you need to make good shit happen and fast. I want to work on what makes me interested and enthralled. In order to do that, I need to come up with what should be done because I like coming up with ideas that work and driving them through to done.  That excites me. Being responsible is exciting. It requires a lot of effort to do this.  You have to walk uphill with a heavy pack and influence people to enable or help you. But, getting what you want takes work. If you don’t work for yourself, you will be doing what others want to get to done.  It’s actually a much harder life if you aren’t working on what you want.  It’s a much harder path to follow.  It may feel easier, but not when you look back and ask yourself if you have really lived the way you wanted to. If your answer is no, there is nothing worse than a wasted life. Doing what you want may seem like work in the beginning, but it changes. It changes to not feeling like work. That’s the ticket.