5 Minute Mojo

Forget about the "Real Living" in ads and on TV.  It's time you started living your version of life!

We do so much to our bodies, some good and some bad.  But we don't put much emphasis on what we do because for the most part we can't see the impact of our choices.  Today I talk about your health choices

Do you think you know what self-care is?  Maybe it will serve you to listen to today's episode, because I have a feeling some people confuse self care with escapism

The first month of the year is over.  Where do you stand?  Not literally, I mean where are you having success and where are you still having challenges.  Don't shy away from these questions because they are the ones that move you forward.

Many factors separate us as a people. With technology it is possible to speak a variety of languages instantly.  What would it be like if you could speak any language instantly?  Today I ask that question and two variations of it.    

In the U.S. things are a little heated right now.  Everyone has their own ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad.  So do you.  But, what will you do about it?

Who is your favorite artist?  I mean either painter, sculptor or actor, anyone creative.  What do you think that tells you about who you are and your view of the world.  i will talk about that very thing today on 5 Minute Mojo.

Our culture seems to push happiness.  I do as well, but not to the exclusion of other feelings.  It is important to experience all feelings and not let any become prominent.  A full life is one which embraces all aspects of living, and that includes sadness.  Today i talk about the benefit of feeling sad.

Your brain is introduced to millions of pieces of information in a day. how can it keep everything straight.  Simple, it quickly eliminates the things you don't need to pay attention to.  How does it do that? With the RAS. Use affirmations to keep your goals in your mind and your brain scanning for ways to make it happen.

John Lee Dumas, host of Entrepreneur on Fire, asks his entrepreneur guests this question every episode.  Even though his reasons are different, I thought I would ask it of you so you can think about how you present yourself to the world. In the question, no one knows you.  You could totally reinvent yourself or keep the unique qualities that make you, you.  Think about it.

If you think you are cooler and better because you take all notes by computer or tablet, you need to think again.  Writing things down is the optimal way to retain information.  Today I talk about that very thing by reading an article from Mental_Floss. http://mentalfloss.com/article/33508/4-benefits-writing-hand

I love it when someone appreciates who they are.  I always seek to empower people. However, there is a growing sense of narcissism that the United States and possibly the world.  Today I talk about ways to be more thoughtful.

It’s unsure when the word was first used, 1905 or 1923, but It certainly is known to have originated in the United States.  If it was up to me I would have hoped for a brighter word legacy than the word “sexy”.  It was originally coined to describe Rudolph Valentino, the legendary film actor.  I didn’t know him other than by name before researching for this post, but as far as I can tell he would have been the “sexiest man alive” in 1926 if People magazine was around.  Thankfully that era escaped the magazine, but nonetheless the word started there. Why do I dislike the word so much, mainly because it separates people.  It has them striving to be something imagined, instead of their authentic self.  It was relatively obscure until the 1950’s when advertisers started using it to promote their products. Just like it is today, ad men set it up as the image that people, mostly women, should aspire to be.  One word, and yet, it is used so frequently from selling cars, to clothes, to well, almost everything. Now, e

I remember all the pets we had growing up.  We were mostly a dog family, but later on we had some cats too.  They were all pretty cool for the most part.  But I had a dog Louie who was the absolute coolest. Why? Because his energy was just amazing.  Even though he was in pain from old age, he refused to die.  He didn't want to leave us. That loyalty meant a great deal to me.  He still visits me in my dreams even though it has been decades since he passed away. So which pet of yours was the coolest?  Why do you think so?

This article is brought to you by WebMD. Eating at night has long been associated with weight gain. Years ago, nutrition pioneer Adele Davis gave her well-known advice to “eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.” Yet the conventional wisdom today is that a calorie is a calorie, regardless of when you eat it, and that what causes weight gain is simply eating more calories than you burn. Nutrition experts call this the calorie in/calorie out theory of weight control. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Weight Control Information Network web site, “it does not matter what time of day you eat. It is what and how much you eat and how much physical activity you do during the whole day that determines whether you gain, lose, or maintain your weight.” A study in the journal Obesity added to the confusion by suggesting that there may be more to nighttime eating than just overeating calories. Northwestern University researchers found that eating at night led to twice as

The people in your life are not random occurrences.  The people you meet provide opportunities for you to grow and experience the beauty of the world.  It only happens though when you open yourself up to the world.

Hello my friends and welcome back to Five Minute Mojo, your evening inspiration podcast.  It’s real simple what I do here, I give you ways to look at life that will have you calmer, smiling more and living more intentionally.  Do you want to hear how I get it done?  Then let me start right in on our topic today, gentleness. If you were to stick to stereotypes and conventional thought then you would probably think that gentleness only applies to woman and weak men.  Oh, how unserving that belief system is.  There is strength in gentleness, for everyone.  It seems that these days the world is competing for your attention.  Marketers want to sell you everything under the sun, politicians are barking their platforms and everyone in your social media is wanting you to pay attention to them.  So how do they go about getting your attention, by yelling.  By yelling, being aggressive, getting in your face sometimes, and in general just being ham handed as they say.  I don’t know about you, but the more someone barks a

There is a massive misperception in the U.S. and possibly other places in the world, that sitting still, not moving, is a waste of time, has no value.  As I talk about today though, you will come to understand that sitting still brings a multitude of value.

You can stew over regrets, but you have made some amazing decisions in your life.  think about them today.