The J-Spot

 A simple path to weight-loss and well-being The absolute worst thing you can do is eat three hours before bedtime. Let’s start there. I know it’s hard to read an article among the million or so on-line publications that claim they will make you skinny, or ripped, or happy… Just stick with me. I don’t want anything from you, as a matter-of-fact, the only one I want anything from is myself! I’m a forty-year-old husband and father of four, have trained with the Navy Seals, and have lost 40 pounds in a month every single year of my life. People always are mesmerized by it. So here it is. Believe it, or not. I can get long-winded if I really start stirring the creative soup, but I will try and save that for my other writings . There’s plenty. I enjoy writing fiction and have been at it for over ten years. But, I have spent a lifetime getting my body back fit. Mostly because, I enjoy treating it like trash for six to nine months out of the year. Now, don’t get me wrong. Despite my over...

Why we voluntarily take other people’s shit A client once said to me, “I’ve taken so many drugs, in my past, that when something bad starts happening I just stop a second and ask myself, What did you take? Is this a relapse?” “Honestly,” I told him, “that’s always the safest bet.” Take a second —   think . You may find that, instead of a handful of mushroom caps, you’ve instead just taken a toxic dose of someone else’s bullshit. There’s a little wooden sign in our living room, that my wife had a friend make us that says, ‘The secret is to take a breath and be thankful.’ It was the only piece of advice she ever lifted off of me, besides, stop taking those damn Xanax’s. Ten years later, I sometimes regret I said it! All jokes aside, taking a second before you do anything is probably the best advice you’ll hear this week. But hearing isn’t exactly the same as taking it all in, now is it? That’s what this article is all about. Too often, we take what people say, right down the hatch....