“Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.”
— Elbert Hubbard

If you were to rate your mornings, how good would they be? Would your mornings be the great, motivating and inspiring part of the day, or the part which clutters your mind and makes you feel confused and powerless?

William F. Vallicella posted on his (now old) Maverick Philosopher blog a humorous investment advice. Thought it would be good to share it.

“After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”
– Russell Hoban

Ever wondered how that internet marketer manages to get masses of people to pay attention to his products? Or how presidential candidates and actual presidents make their message stick with entire nations? How do people get seduced into paying attention? Research outlines six characteristics of effective communications. But before telling you what those are, take a look at the picture below. Is it getting its message across and getting your attention?

“Those who think they have no time for healthy eating, will sooner or later have to find time for illness.”
– Edward Stanley

What to eat before traveling is another simple question, but one with a lot of potential bad answers. If you’re in an airplane, you won’t feel too comfortable if what you ate before boarding was cabbage, baked beans or any other food that produces gases. Their effects aren’t really that

pleasant on land, but they gets worse at altitude because air expands in your stomach and digestive tract up to 30 per cent. And it gets worse if you had a carbonated drink to go with that food.

What you want to eat when traveling, whether by plane or by car, is a low-calorie food that travels well. You’ll be sitting for hours so you won’t need a lot of calories. Also, the immobility of sitting in a train (or plane, coach or car) for more than four hours slows down the blood flow making it more prone to clotting.

“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”
– Voltaire

Regardless of whether you ate before your workout or not, you shouldn’t avoid eating after the exercise. Of course, you don’t need to eat extra if your workout was an hour long easy walk. If you had a high-intensity workout of at least 50 minutes though, it is crucial to eat afterwards.