Author: Ken Ring
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Americanized
Have you ever hear someone use the word “Americanized” as an insult? Maybe not directly, but in an insulting way? I have, and it’s getting harder for me to keep quiet about it when it happens. Here’s why. When someone laments the “Americanization” of something, they are speaking from a culturally conservative point of view.…
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Bulletproof Coffee – Updated
Bulletproof Coffee…have your heard of this? I heard about it listening to The Fat Burning Man Show, a paleo podcast. He had a guest on that is into bio-hacking, or getting the most that we can from our bodies. Evidently, this guy made a bundle of cash when he was only 26 and spent a…
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Back to Paleo
So, last week I returned to being serious about my Paleo lifestyle. I eased up over the holidays. Actually, from the end of summer on through the end of the year, I was fairly sloppy with my diet. Not eating hamburgers and swilling coke, but having pizza multiple times per week and not being too…
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Fifty Shades of Goals
Nothing titillating here. Just the title. Sorry. This time of year, I usually write something about goal setting, Black Belt Mind, etc. This year though I wanted to do something completely different. I want to be very open and honest and share some of my goals with you. As an exercise, I want to share…
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Peace
Background Remember the sixties? The music, the riots, the wars. Ok, not that great. Maybe the music was ok. And since I was born at the end of the sixties, I can’t really say that I remember them either. One thing that did come out of the sixties that was cool was the movement towards…
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Good Pain vs Bad Pain
I can’t find a good online definition for “pain”. They all talk about physical pain being “discomfort caused by illness or injury”. Martial artists, heck, anyone who has done fifty sit-ups on a whim knows that pain doesn’t have to come from “illness or injury”. Do me a favor. Reach over and pinch your arm. Feel that? Is there…