Critique of the Week: Underground Wellness

Yooooo, what's up y'allll. This one is for Sean Croxton, Underground Wellness personal trainer, health coach and entrepreneur who airs episodes on YouTube that educate, motivate and reveal the truth about commonly held myths in the health and nutrition industry.

If you get a chance, check out his channel and episodes on Blog Talk Radio where he interviews amazing healers and health advocates like Paul Chek (genius!), Sally Fallon, author of Nourishing Traditions and Lierre Pierce, author of The Vegetarian Myth, just a handful of people I owe a crap load of credit to for changing my life. And I guarantee they will change yours... if not save it! Hunny I ain't kiddin'! Just click the interview you choose, while its playing, hit the iTunes icon and sync the podcast to your iPod for free.

And on that note... you MUST tune in to Josh Rubin and wife Jeanne as they educate you with educational and awesome vids on YouTube and the same on Blog Talk Radio. At East West Healing and Performance they've helped many get back to their optimal health and well being potential (along with myself who am currently in the process) with a blunt and no bull shit approach that will leave you in awe of their extensive knowledge, comprehension and consideration.

Sean Croxton of Underground Wellness
http://www.youtube.com/user/UndergroundWellness
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/undergroundwellness
http://www.undergroundwellness.com

Josh and Jeanne Rubin of East West Healing and Performance
http://www.youtube.com/user/joshrubineastwest
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/eastwesthealing
http://www.eastwesthealing.com/

Critique of the Week: B&T Food Centre

A whiff could leave one (with no sense of smell) in the ER for whiplash, and yet this market gets an A+ for selling teas for cheap, and Titanic-long cucumbers for fifty cents each! I'm a rhymer. ;)

Everything else is fair game and I hold no responsibility for those stabbed by frozen durian.

B & T Food Centre
3255 Rutherford,
Thornhill, ON L4K 5Y5

The Key to Success...

The biggest factor in whether you crash and burn or smoke the competition is simple: your WHY.

Men... if you're going to the gym everyday because you FEAR that missing two straight days will leave you looking more like Jay Baruchel from She's Out of My League instead of Gerard Butler, your military press won't accomplish shit.

NOW...

If you drive your sweet ass to the gym everyday because you know that Zeus-like body of yours is DESERVING of the best possible treatment, you'll be cranking out reps on the Swiss ball with no need to ask 'Muscle Guy' whether resistance bands will work larger muscle groups. Ye dig? Let's continue...

Ladies... if you're opting for that distinctly flavoured V8® over that delicious cup of loveliness (also known as the Tall Caramel Frappucino from Starbucks), because you HATE the vision of you wearing fat pants in July, you'll be waiting 'til everyone's asleep for the chance to attack that tub of Häagen-Dazs® while watching Bridget Jones.

NOW...

If you swing by the convenience store on your fifteen minute break to pick up that sexy veg-medley because you APPRECIATE and LOVE your body and want to thank it the best way possible, you'll be wearing that hot-ass Victoria's Secret halter top bikini by May... Canadian time honey. That's impressive.

IN CONCLUSION...

Action out of fear leads to failure... so don't declare war. Instead, flip the switch to a labour of love and you'll be seeing benefits faster; hold the guilt and shame.

(PS: If you do happen to lose your way and end up at the sugar and spice station with a Grande in one hand and a whip cream cuddled straw in the other, don't fret... some skinny people survive off McDonalds. A little treat won't doom you to indefinite belly-bulge-syndrome.)

Focus /f'oʊkəs/
Synonyms: to concentrate

(1) If you focus on a particular topic or if your attention is focused on it, you concentrate on it and think about it, discuss it, or deal with it, rather than dealing with other topics.

(2) The focus of something is the main topic or main thing that it is concerned with.

(3) If you say that something has a focus, you mean that you can see a purpose in it.

(4) If you focus your eyes or if your eyes focus, your eyes adjust so that you can clearly see the thing that you want to look at.

(5) You use focus to refer to the fact of adjusting your eyes, or other instrument, to the degree to which you can see clearly.

(6) If an image or a camera, telescope, or other instrument is in focus, the edges of what you see are clear and sharp.

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Ungrateful Women... Bitch You Mine!

DISCLAIMER: This well-wasted one minute of your life will MAKE your life... along with making you crap your pants.

A Snipit of Unqualified Wisdom...

One month since I started this... and my whole life changed. People met, things explored, and a HELL of a time of new beginnings. Too deep for you?

Here are just some words of encouragement, and hopefully a tittle inspiration...

Now I'm not here to restate the obvious that's been told by the self-help section of the now-physically-rearranged Chapters (in my hood)... but we all know that energy is equivalent to life.

Now if what I'm hinting at is boggling your walnut, just know: CREATIVITY expressed breeds energy, not RedBull people.

So whether you love to play soccer or you're into weekly curling meets, get that energy out there. Whether you love to dance circles around pedestrians along Queen, or you love to sketch futuristic outfits in your pad, regardless of anyone seeing them... let it roll. Whether you love to paint or fiend to rearrange wall-concealed wires and plugs to make a building light up and function... do it. If it's working on your beat up car, or talking crap about celebrities in the upmost professional manner (enter Perez)... get on that!

It doesn't matter whether someone acknowledges your self-discovered creativity or not, but it's important to get it out. Because once you start doing something, even if the thing you love doing takes up only five seconds of your day, it matters... and things start happening. Don't do it primarily for others. And for J. Murphy's sake...

... don't take my word for it!

Man I Love That Song...

Everyone has that one song. It may not be your fav but you can't deny it... like crack, or better yet... a speed induced automotive time machine. "Doc? You there Doc?"

That rare time you hear it on the radio, you neglect the conversation and start waving, head banging, or shimmying to it. A song that takes you back to your most memorable year in high school, or your first psychedelic experience (haha, whatever that may be... or include), that first boyfriend or girlfriend, that time the song played during an awkward silence, or that time you decided to take a walk in the middle of winter with your iPod and wiped-out on the sidewalk in front of a huddle of smokers on the porch of the house you're passing? Good times.

Mine happens to be by Big Wreck, a song appropriately named 'That Song' (with Eagle Eyed Cherry's 'Save Tonight' in second, and House of Pain's 'Jump Around' winning the bronze medal... and yes I can recite those lyrics, I did watch Mrs. Doubtfire).

Overarching moral of this blog entry? Take time out to recognize and relish those once in a lifetime moments, and buy winter boots with traction. "No worries! I'm alright! That was intentional!" :)