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While chatting to Yelena the Barista this morning, she mentioned that she was going to fly using hand gestures.

“Where?” I asked.

“I’m off to Berlin, I’ve got no plans” she responded, adding, “live life.”

This was very inspirational. Yelena was dedicated to living life and making the most of every day. And it got me thinking that, while most of us can’t literally pack ours bags and create a new life, we can try breaking our routine or creating new and interesting activities.

Sometimes we lose perspective.  We focus on the things that ultimately don’t bring us happiness. A good friend’s wife passed away this week after a ferocious battle with cancer. She spent her 40th birthday in agonizing pain in the intensive care unit. Her last words were not focused on her career, house or her possessions, but her family.

Ultimately, we don’t know when or whether we’ll be removed from our physical being on this planet. So, as Yelena already knows, we really need to make the most out of every day. Creating stressful, unhappy situations can have negative effects on our well being.

There are studies that indicate that engaging in activities that bring you happiness leads to overall wellbeing and improved health. You receive a flood of feel-good hormones.

Like they say, laughter really is the best medicine. And there’s a recent US study that’s produced evidence to suggest that when we laugh we release certain chemicals in our bodies that boost our immune system, relax our muscles, and benefit our hearts.

So a key ingredient to living a healthier life is to engage in activities that bring us happiness and laughter while also nurturing and developing our relationships with friends and family.

Written by Andrew Talati

Every now and then we have stuff that purports to enhance athletic performance, there is the skins body suit garments for example, now we have “Power balance” that people swear makes a difference to their performance. A very impressive list of athletes can’t rave enough about it.

Is it a case where the wearer truly believes it makes a difference so the psychological change in the brain creates the belief and there is an improvement. So is it more like a lucky charm, similar to athletes who wear a religious cross around there neck and upon winning a race, ie cycling, they kiss the lucky charm.

Sports people have for years had similar rituals that give them the confidence to succeed. Think about tennis/football players who must bounce the ball “x” numbers of times before making a crucial serve, or the cricketers who rubs the ball against there groin to the point they will wear a hole in their trousers.

There is a famous experiment from Jane Elliot in 1968 who used and an experiment in demonstrating prejudice to highlight the psychological effects of feeling superior and all the bad stuff associated with that situation as well. Children in a classroom were divided based on there eye colour whereby blue eyed children were treated as being more intelligent and the brown eyed children lacked intelligence.

The blue eyed group experienced better grades with their understanding of reading and mathematical tasks being greater than what they had previously achieved. Conversely there was a negative relationship with the brown eyed children who experienced a decrease in there grades.
Ultimately it came down to the psychological benefit, the belief system that having blue eyes made them smarter and more superior, sound familiar?

The test that is often sited to test the benefits of the Power Balance is to hold your arm out at 90º to your body and for someone to push down on it, then you repeat the experiment after placing the bracelet on and miraculously it’s harder to push the arm down.

Well try this experiment in reverse and you will get the same outcome, I would like to see the scientific evidence that there is a measurable improvement in a controlled environment with at least 500 people to get a true sample size, not testimonials from athletes.
All I have to say is “SHOW US THE EVIDENCE”?

The weight loss industry is another example of where being unregulated unsubstantiated claims can be made, often if there are clinical trials, it is based on there on testing guidelines with an extremely small sample group.

Well for a limited time we are offering the “Fitstyler” hologram technology, just $99 plus we will throw in some steak knives:))

You can make whatever you wont to happen if you believe in yourself. A friend of mine being like myself likes to be in bed before midnight, mmmm, actually 10.30pm most nights so going out and seeing live music can be challenging. Most bands don’t start playing until 10-11pm so it ends up being a very late night.

So my friend Richard decides if I can’t get to see the bands, why can’t the bands come to me, or to my lounge room.

Well this is the sixth time bands have played in Richard’s lounge room and were talking about quality Australian music with Leah Flanagan and The Yealings playing over the weekend. A review from Tom Jellett from the Weekend Australian “The Yearlings’ previous albums have hinted at great things to come and Highway Dancing may just be it.

So thee were 2 ways at looking at what Richard did, firstly you can say who will play in my lounge room at all net alone for free or look at the situation positively and think that this is an opportunity for local bands to extend there audience.

Ultimately it’s all about projecting positive thoughts and energy, Richard know gets approached by not only local but international artists.

So think about this for all areas of your life, whether it is weight loss or being happier in your life, ultimately you can make it happen.

Do something nice every day and project positive energy.

This week I donated $500 worth of Boot camp classes to the local primary school for there school fete. I dropped off the vouchers at 8.00am on Wednesday morning so the school was all but empty except the tuck shop lady who was preparing for the days lunches. I asked if the vouchers could be passed onto the fete co-ordinator, we started chatting about the fete and the prizes I was offering which lead to speaking about our Boot camps.
With our wet winter I also mentioned about the need for a covered area an she informed me that they were building a new sporting hall next year:))

Strangely enough the tuck shop lady said that she has seen our boot camps as she walks past in the mornings and has always been interested in joining. Well this morning I decided to conduct the class at the meeting point which is beside the main road which I rarely do, out of the blue the tuck shop lady appeared with the fete co-ordinator, we chatted briefly.

So change your mind set and do something nice today and start to project positive energy.

Today will be a great day, it’s all about projecting your thoughts.
I started today with this thought & ended up doing a bunch ride with Bradley Wiggins, 4th in 2009 Tour de France and Gold at the Beijing Olympics.

As Kevin Costner famously said in the movie, “If you build it, he will come.”.
Well think of your mind like the corn field in the movie, about believing that great things can happen. If you truly believe, it will happen.

Well after waking at this morning, eyes barely open and squinting, I look in the mirror (not a pretty site at 5.00am) and said “today will be a great day”

After running our Melbourne Bootcamp, headed to the office, fired up the computer and started to compose a blog. I went to Twitter to make sure that I had reached the 140 character limit when I quickly looked at the Twitters (I follow some very busy twitterers which equates to a twitter every 2 seconds being displayed).

To my amazement I saw a twitter from Bradley Wiggins, forth overrall winner in this years Tour de France asking “Long Shot anyone fancy a ride at 3.30 from St Kilda” at the very top of twitters.
Now I only follow 2 Pro cyclists, Bradley Wiggins and Lance Armstrong, and I rarely read very Twitter otherwise I would need an extra 24 hours in the day. I replied with a suggested meeting place, bradley replied back with a venue he was familiar with, well 40 other cyclists meet up for the ride as well.

Two and a half hours later we returned and I even managed to get a quick interview.
The funny thing is Bradley would not have continued for riding for 90 kms had no one had shown up as roads can be quite dangerous when riding alone. So for Bradley there was a belief that he would find people to ride with.

So it may seem a bit weird and strange but the very first thought when you ride from your unconscious state in the morning (or afternoon/evening if your a shift worker) is today will be a great day and start projecting positive thoughts