Unless you are one of very few lucky people, most likely the only way that you will ever be successful is to commit to taking the massive action required to achieve a goal. Star athletes, successful business people, and even those who have found the love of their lives realize that without commitment, nothing will ever be achieved. So, if this is such as well-established fact, why isn’t everyone a total success.
The answer to that question is that for too many people several of the areas of their brain, which should normally help them become masters of their universe, have enabled them to fear commitment. That area helps us anticipate future possibilities and in our mind simulate the occurrence of a potential adverse situation. This means that we think about what could go wrong and we play it out as if it actually were happening. We train our minds and bodies to become quite good at...
No great achievement in life is ever realized without first creating a firm vision of the desired results in your mind. Whether you are considering building the next great pyramid, creating the next billion-dollar Internet business, or growing and shaping your muscles for your next bodybuilding competition, without focusing on your results, it most likely will never be achieved. Why is this true?
Realize that everything around and in us is made of patterns of matter and its energy. When one link or component changes, it inspires the others connected to it to adapt. I normally call this an entrainment process or a re-harmonization. As a bodybuilder this should make a lot of sense. For instance, when you challenge your pecs or quads with specific weights or repetitions, your muscles react by creating corresponding muscle mass. However, did you know that your brain also plays a very big...
We’re at the beginning of a new decade. The end of 2009 left many people shell-shocked from the world-wide economic meltdown. Thousands have lost jobs, homes and life savings. But, as with any adversity, humans have the ability to recreate themselves, to create a better future.
However, change – whether on a global scale or personal – starts with thought. To change your weight, your finances, your outlook on life you have to change how you think. There is power in thought. It is where creativity begins. If you cannot perceive of yourself as being slim, it’s unlikely that you’ll lose the weight. If you don’t think like a millionaire, it will be very difficult to change your finances.
I read a book recently that described the four things you need to do to change your life. The first thing is to find the right tools. Be an explorer. Use the Web to...
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In this summer's The Campaign, Will Ferrell is Cam Brady, a shell-haired, profoundly stupid congressional candidate who must out-America his mustached opponent Marty Huggins (Zach Galifianakis). The teasers (above) preview the candidates' (fake) TV spots and respective Facebook pages: here and here.…
Its that time again: New Orleans? Post Jazz Fest tribute to Anthony ?Tuba Fat?s? Lacen. Best known as founding member of the Dirty Dozen and for playing with Olympia Brass Band, Tuba Fats is New Orleans' most famous and revered sousaphonist.…
Greenpeace filed many Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for information, including photos, related to the 2010 BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Today, it published photos related to an endangered species of turtle.…
Six years after the fact, you’d think that most of us in New Orleans would be tired of talking about Hurricane Katrina. We are. That’s not to say that everything’s as it was. That’s not to say that everyone has come home. And that’s certainly not to say that people, communities, and the city we [...]
Saveur magazine posted an excellent video about one of my favorite regions of Louisiana, Acadiana. The video really captures the passion people in that area have for food.
With the help of the Louisiana tourism industry we have doing our own part to fuel our American Idol this season. Each week we send delicious Louisiana cuisine to Los Angeles to nourish Westlake native Joshua Ledet before his weekly performance.
By Dave Moreland If you have been in the woods this season then you have heard the sound: crunch, crunch, crunch. Every step in the forest produces this crunching sound. Normally, the sound is created by boots stepping on dry leaves, but this year the sound is caused from boots stepping on acorns, lots and [...]
By Adam Einck Keeping up with technology can be a daunting task, but something every person, school and organization has to accomplish in order to conduct their lives and business in today’s society. Law enforcement agencies, including the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement Division, are no different . With ever increasing duties [...]
By Carrie Salyers and Sara Zimorski It’s been almost a year since the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF), along with partner organizations, returned whooping cranes to the state for the first time since 1950. The year has been a rollercoaster of events, some being positive experiences and others that we could have done [...]
After cursing out RTA's automated phone service, suffering through a city tour-esque streetcar ride and crossing that super-scary Canal Street-Canal Boulevard-City Park Avenue intersection to get from the Canal streetcar to the Veterans bus, I was looking forward to a relaxing ride down Veterans Boulevard; I figured I'd find a few cool stores, grab something yummy to eat and be on my way back home to the 7th Ward by 4 p.m. After all, everything is in Metairie on Veterans Boulevard?right?
Find out why this bus ride was so frustrating after the jump.
The 2012 Big Easy Music Awards winners were announced tonight at a gala at Harrah's New Orleans. Awards in 24 categories and six special awards were handed out at the gala hosted by Johnny Vidacovich.…
InTrade, the online speculation site, has a prediction market underway offering odds on who will be the vice-presidential pick of presumptive GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Tops at the moment: Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Fla. Sen. Marco Rubio, both trending around 18 percent.…
If you were alarmed by the low-flying aircrafts (Missy Wilkinson flew on one!) and fleet of imposing ships docked at the river, don't worry ? we're not under attack.…
"You're going to puke," my friends said when I told them I'd been offered a flight with the Blue Angels during Navy Week. "Bring a barf bag," advised my editor, Kevin Allman.
Gov. Bobby Jindal was the featured guest at last night's New York Republican State Committee dinner at the Sheraton New York in midtown Manhattan. (Dinner: $1,000; photo op with the gov, $5,000.…
Mr. Ghetto is at it again, bringing lots of booty clapping and ground humping to the beat of a cartoon classic. In "Looney Tune Bounce," Mr. Ghetto heads to The Point on the Lakefront and to a block party?Shake Team in tow?looking for puddy tats, promising to make them say, "Meow, meow."
DISCLAIMER: In no way are we trying to invade anyone?s privacy, but it?s fun to hear about the great places celebrities are visiting while they?re hanging out in New Orleans. We?re appreciative of the people who are way more famous than we?ll ever be for visiting our city and state, spending their money, and sometimes even contributing to our rebuilding and recovery efforts.…
Sunday night's television schedule had plenty to offer in terms of challenging entertainment, notably with Mad Men and the premiere of Lena Dunham's excellent, probably revolutionary, HBO series Girls (you can watch the pilot on YouTube). But over on VH1, there was the opposite end of the spectrum: the latest season of Tough Love ? a mix of Millionaire Matchmaker, Bad Girls Club and the sales rack of a Rainbow store ? which is set in New Orleans.…