New Year Resolution

Luis — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:51:29 +0000

It is this time of the year again where we stop to reflex and get some insights of the year that it is about to end. And like every year we look at the good, the bad and ugly and try to come out with new goals in order to make the new year a better one.
There is nothing wrong about it; moreover, I would think that we as human we all want to grow not only financially, but also spiritually, professionally, as a person. The problem is the way we try to obtain those set of goals. We grew up with the idea that this is the perfect time and for some the only one to make resolutions and goals. According to recent studies 12% of new year resolutions actually get carry on and accomplished until the end of the year the individuals started.

Another think I wanted to highlight is that we focus a lot of what it is lacking, but pay little if none attention to what do we do. We as human being take a lot of things for granted, and we always the hard way to value them when we lost them. Although some people might argue about that this probably it is not the best time of the year to reflect on (Thanksgiving Day might be the day) I think that during these days we should all take a look at those things such as a current job, a good health for your and your family, time with your family and friends, your old or used values, something to eat, freedom, security, peace.

So let’s start focus on those things we do have. Let’s try to improve them, fortify them and make them better. Those are the things we already have so why don’t pay the same attention to maintain them? I hope all of you had a wonderful Holidays and great start on this 2011.
Happy New year everyone and wish you all the best and success!!

100 steps at the time

Luis — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:07:16 +0000

I work in a office located on the fifth floor of a building and even though 3 elevators are available, I decided to take quite often the stairs for 2 main reasons: The first one, because usually it takes a while to get the elevator and the second reason is because I think it is a good opportunity to do some physical activity at work.
Some times, I even take the challenge to go up faster than colleagues who use the elevators because at rush hour there are more people that stop in every single floor even to the second floor. I do the same challenge when I want to go down and to my surprise I won quite a lot of these personal ego-guess who is faster- kind of races myself. Usually I do this 3 times a day when I arrive at the office early
morning then after my daily walk in the parking lot when I had finished my lunch and the last one during a break time in the afternoon.

Yesterday I was counting the steps from one floor to the next and found out there was 20 in total, that multiplied by 5 floors makes it 100 steps. Later on I tried to figured out how many calories this activity can help me burn and found on that per every step up you burn 0.11 calories and 0.05 for every step down according to a research.
By doing the math 100 steps times 0.11 calories totals 11 calories and 100 steps times 0.05 when I go down totals another 5 calories. They all together adds 16 calories if you do it twice a day is 32, three times is 48 and so on.
In terms of total calories burned it is actually no much, but the activity itself brings me other extra benefits like increasing my capacity to oxygenation, raising my heart rate, off course working out your muscles and even a few minutes of meditation that I am really happy to have.
Taking the steps might seems irrational, but I started to find a increasingly popular choice these days where most of our times we spend seating in front of the computer for long hours.

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New Year Resolution

100 steps at the time