The Gym Life Essays

The Gym Life Essays will help you train better, eat better and life better!The goal is to take action and implement new ideas into your routine and build those lasting habits that are going to get you closer to your goals. Areas you will Improve: Nutrition Fitness Cooking Lifestyle Fat-loss Health Mindset Through education you can develop a powerful mindset, and with this new mindset you can crush any goal you decide to pursue. Ultimately, that is the purpose of the Gym Life: To reach your goals. The Gym Life Essays includes actionable advice as well as theory to help you develop this "winning" mindset. Each chapter addresses a specific topic. This will give you the most actionable advice in the least amount of time possible. After all, the goal is to take action as fast as possible. Chapters: Welcome To The Gym Life The Gym Life Manifesto 50 Ways To Lose Weight Starting a Program Why You Don't Get Results What is the Paleo Diet? Why You Don't Have Abs (it's your food dummy) 50 Ways To Improve Your Training The Trinity OMG it's Gluten-Free... Weaknesses and Why We Suck at Not Sucking How To Eat Clean with The Paleo Diet One-Pot Paleo Meals To The Busy Person's Rescue Create WODs and Train Anywhere Conclusion Get a copy of The Gym Life Essays and start taking action today! Yours in Fitness, -Colin Stuckert

The word, "Meditations," has a few meanings that is often misunderstood or confused. There is meditation, or meditating, which is the act of meditating (which I recommend), and there is a meditation, which is the act of writing or thinking on a subject. This book is based on the latter definition. The following "Meditations" are short essays about life, health, mindset, and effectiveness in the pursuit of being a better human being. Because you are reading this book, I'm going to assume that you care about becoming a better person. If you don't, then this isn't the book for you and you should give it to someone who is interested in becoming better. The beginning of each Meditation starts with a quote. Some time in the near past, I developed the habit of writing short essays by starting with a motivational quote that moved me in some way. After finding a quote, I would just let it flow and wrote whatever came to me. I would never know where the writing would take me. At first, this bothered me. I liked having a plan and knowing what my main point was. But I soon learned that my best work always came when I just let it rip. I now know that this is how inspiration works: it's unpredictable and rarely tamed. So I decided I would embrace this new writing practice and now you have the book in your hands because of it. So why am I telling you this? Well, as par for the course, I am again starting this introduction without having much idea of what I wanted to say. And as it goes, I figured it out after I started. I want you to open your mind to what you are about to read. I think the best writing is writing that gets the reader to think, to ask questions. I've never liked "preachy" writing, or writing that left little to the indignation. To me, writing is an exercise of the mind with the most benefits coming as a result of the places the mind goes on its own. I hope you will embrace your mind's desire to go down different paths. If you are inspired, write it down or you will lose it. Convert that inspiration into a form of action. Then take that action (more on this later). I have succeeded if you take-away one positive idea or benefit that applies to your life. I hope you take action on any of the ideas that come into your head while reading this book. If you do, I will have succeeded.

Personal accounts celebrating the place of exercise in women’s lives—and as the site of women’s community.

In a landmark essay, Stan Grant writes Indigenous people back into the economic and multicultural history of Australia. This is the fascinating story of how fringe dwellers fought not just to survive, but to prosper. Their legacy is the extraordinary flowering of Indigenous success – cultural, sporting, intellectual and social – that we see today. Yet this flourishing co-exists with the boys of Don Dale, and the many others like them who live in the shadows of the nation. Grant examines how such Australians have been denied the possibilities of life, and argues eloquently that history is not destiny; that culture is not static. In doing so, he makes the case for a more capacious Australian Dream. ‘The idea that I am Australian hits me with a thud. It is a blinding self-realisation that collides with the comfortable notion of who I am. To be honest, for an Indigenous person, it can feel like a betrayal somehow – at the very least, a capitulation. We are so used to telling ourselves that Australia is a white country: am I now white? The reality is more ambiguous … To borrow from Franz Kafka, identity is a cage in search of a bird.’ —Stan Grant, The Australian Dream

In this essay collection, Michael Cohen presents the odd idea of the suicide note as a writing project that can be critiqued like any other, describes encounters with illegal border crossers in south Texas, and ponders the sudden popularity of books about atheism. Books are a frequent subject here, and Cohen makes an argument for The Maltese Falcon as the Great American Novel, searches for the perfect, the Platonic, nature handbook, and compares playing golf to reading about it. Reading is, for him, as engrossing a form of experience as any other—say hitchhiking through the Southwest with an old friend, the joys of flying small planes, or the charm of studying ancient Greek while people-watching at the gym, all experiences chronicled here. He looks back at the effect a 1956 collision of two airliners over the Grand Canyon had on him as a kid fond of flying, and how he learned about the joys of good food during a wanderjahr in Europe. Many of these essays begin with a question: whether Americans deserve their reputation for materialism, why we seem to have lost the climate change battle, and whether talking to yourself might really be beneficial. Another frequent topic is how our ideal places cannot avoid being bruised by time. He looks at what happened as the Tucson bars of his college days closed or morphed into very different places. He traces seasonal changes in the desert. He notes what happens to its effect when a giant cross beside I-40 in Texas is joined by equally giant windmills. And he takes a mind’s-eye tour through Paris’s terrace cafés and their literary associations after the 2015 terrorist attack there. Michael's previous collection with IP is A Place to Read.

This book focuses on the essay writing process and includes a writing toolbox which has been adapted to meet the specific needs of MBA applicants.

MBA Admissions Strategy is a bestseller that shows MBA applicants: • What MBA Admissions Committees value and how they work • What to say in a b-school application, and how to say it well • How to answer tricky essay and interview questions It guides the reader through the four key aspects of competitive MBA admissions: navigating the admissions process; enhancing profile value; managing essay and interview communications; and writing better. MBA Admissions Strategy is about what is hard for MBA applicants to find: the candid “what-I-wish-they’d-told-me” insights about what really works in MBA admissions. It is what to do to win in MBA admissions, and a step-by-step guide how to do it. The 3rd edition, updated throughout, contains new material on success in MBA interviews and wider admissions inputs, in addition to the traditional essays.

We live in an age of constant distraction. Is there a price to pay for this? In this superb essay, renowned critic Sebastian Smee explores the fate of the inner life in the age of the internet. Throughout history, artists and thinkers have cultivated the deep self, and seen value in solitude and reflection. But today, with social media, wall-to-wall marketing and the agitation of modern life, everything feels illuminated, made transparent. We feel bereft without our phones and their cameras and the feeling of instant connectivity. It gets hard to pick up a book, harder still to stay with it. Without nostalgia or pessimism, Sebastian Smee evokes what is valuable and worth cultivating: he guides us from the apparent fullness of the app-filled world towards a more complex sense of self, and the inner life. If we lose this, Smee asks, what do we lose of ourselves? “Every day I spend hours and hours on my phone ... We are all doing it, aren’t we? It has come to feel completely normal. Even when I put my device aside and attach it to a charger, it pulses away in my mind, like the throat of a toad, full of blind, amphibian appetite.”––Sebastian Smee, Net Loss