Health 101: Foods that Help You Stay Focused

I read an interesting article about foods that can help you to stay focused. The thing that really stuck out to me is that it’s not one single food that helps you to stay focused, it’s the full diet. Eating foods that keep your energy levels up, but not too high, can help you to have greater concentration and focus.

This is important to understand and I think most people do. However, oftentimes I think we wish there were a magic food or pill that we could take to give us all the nutrients we need. It just doesn’t exist.

One thing that the article points out is to stay away from foods that give you too big of a high like coffee and sodas. They give you a nice boost, but the low that comes after causes you to loose concentration.

Just like eating a diet full of good foods takes some time to implement, figuring out how to stay focused on your money maker is a lifestyle that has to be learned. If you cheat a little here and there on your money makers, the lows may be too much to recover from and you may end up losing focus on the things that make you money.

Health 101: Wii Fit

This is a follow up to Health 101: Yoga as a Money Maker.

My wife purchased Nintendo’s Wii Fit for me on Fathers Day.  I had been really excited to try it out because I wanted to see if Nintendo could really pull off the exercise video game.  What I found was something more than I would have expected.

Not only has Nintendo pulled off the video game portion of Wii Fit, they have also succeeded in the exercise portion as well.

My favorite part of Wii Fit is the Yoga Training.  I have a gym pass at Gold’s Gym and they have Yoga classes, but I have never taken one.  What I have found through doing the Yoga Training is that I am using muscles that I have neglected through normal strength training.  Not only that, but the whole focus on your breathing aspect is rather gratifying.  It truly is a focus driven exercise.  I even notice myself throughout the day focusing on my internal balance and breathing.

I’ve only been using Wii Fit for about a week, but the Yoga Trainer alone is worth the price.

Health 101: Yoga as a Money Maker

MSN.com has an interesting article stating that you can use Yoga to help make you money. From the article:

“Take a minute right now to breathe deeply into your lower abdomen. Don’t force yourself to hold your breath or breathe too slowly, but instead relax all tension and let gravity pull the oxygen into the lowest part of your lungs. As you do this, totally relax your stomach muscles and solar plexus.

It is virtually impossible to be anxious about money with a relaxed solar plexus and belly. If you use yoga to create real relief during moments of acute financial stress, you can avoid making rash decisions — for instance, bailing out of a sound investment strategy prematurely. That, in turn, will help you live the financial life you most yearn for in the long term.”

Though the article doesn’t specifically state that you can make money by doing yoga, what it is stating is that the principles in yoga can help you to stay focused on what you are doing financially. This is one of the important concepts of focusing on your money maker. Learning how to take the emotion out of your decisions will always help you to make the right decisions. Yoga is all about self control and by learning those principles you can learn to apply them to your financial goals.

Hit the link for the full article.

Health 101: Why Your Health is Your Money Maker

One thing that we tend to forget about money making is our health.  If you are feeling good, eating right, and in good shape, it really does help you to make money.

One of the constant features we will run on Focus On Your Money Maker is learning how to take care of yourself.  Just remember that if you are sick, or worse off dead, you aren’t making money.

Being the first post of this series, I just want to start out small.  It’s almost summer and the weather can be really nice on some days.  It’s important to take advantage of these opportunities.  Just go outside and read a book, take a walk, do anything outdoors.  It doesn’t matter what it is, but there is something to be said about feeling the sun and breathing clean air.  It really does do wonders to our attitude and helps you to regain focus on the important things.

As we continue this series, we will take an in depth look at getting ourselves in physical and mental shape.  It takes a keen mind to stay focused on your money makers.