Ann Garvin, Author at Unreasonable

Balance Wellness

Reality Check for Healthy Eating

How many times have you justified your pizza by telling yourself the tomato sauce and veggie toppings are providing some nutritional value? Or maybe that, yeah, you had two slices of pizza, but at least you didn’t have three? Avoid those sorts of rationalizations by internalizing the following two food rules

Ann GarvinJuly 2, 2014

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Work Like a Dog—And Plan to Fail

Fifty percent of people who start an exercise program drop out by six weeks. Yet six weeks is just about the time we start seeing positive results of new behaviors. Stick with it, and those behaviors become part of who you are. So how do you get over that hump? Plan to fail.

Ann GarvinJune 30, 2014

Balance Career Productivity Wellness

Protecting Your Good Idea From Yourself

Burnout can destroy the best of ideas and intentions. While an idea can, in theory, be limitless, the brain is a physical organ with limitations. If these limitations aren’t acknowledged the consequences can be grave. Don't let burnout destroy your idea.

Ann GarvinJune 18, 2014

Career Failure Wellness

Fake It ’til You Make It

Success takes time, fortitude and a certain measure of self-esteem. If you're in short supply of any of these things, sometimes it's worth "faking it to make it."

Ann GarvinJune 11, 2014

Productivity Wellness

Health: Do it Right

If you’re a start up and you don’t have a real, working application to help your employees nurture health first; before bringing clean water to a village, before providing food for the hungry, then you’re doing something wrong.

Ann GarvinMay 30, 2014

Career Wellness

What’s The Best Exercise?

What’s the best exercise? The exercise that burns the most calories, the fat-burning, booty-kicking, 8-pack ab-giving workout that will change your life? Read on to find out. It may not be what you expect.

Ann GarvinMay 7, 2014

Balance Career Wellness

Accidental Sick Happens

There are contagions out there waiting for a go at your immune system, waiting to take hold and shake you. Invest in health so that you can save the world later.

Ann GarvinApril 16, 2014

Career Wellness

Which is More Deadly – Zombies or Vampires? How To Determine Your Risk

Everything needs to be put into context. When you are wondering what should be prioritized, related to your business or your health, you need to ask the last question in Ann Garvin's 3 part series.

Ann GarvinMarch 20, 2014

Balance Productivity Wellness

Stop Wasting Your Time and Your Health

Time is at a premium for everyone, especially innovators, start-ups and entrepreneurs. To prevent time wasters, there are three questions you must never forget to ask. In the second post of her 3-part series, Ann reveals the second question that will save you time, money, and your health.

Ann GarvinMarch 19, 2014

Wellness

If There’s A Price Tag On The Information, Look Elsewhere For Your Answer

The need to get the right information is universal. There are three questions you must never forget to ask. In this post, you'll discover the first question that will save you time, money, and possibly lives.

Ann GarvinMarch 18, 2014

Wellness

How To Cheat Your Way To a Better YOU

If you ask a room of one hundred people if exercise is good for you, one hundred people will say yes. If you ask how many people in the room exercise regularly only twenty people will raise their hands. Sitting may be fabulous, but it will kill you. Here's help.

Ann GarvinJanuary 27, 2014

Productivity Wellness

What A Truck Driver Knows About Saving the World

The first rule in Tractor Trailer school is Don’t Back Up. You can spend more time saving the planet by adopting the belief system of the eighteen-wheeler.

Ann GarvinJanuary 20, 2014

Balance Productivity Wellness

Health: There Actually Is a Magic Pill

Americans love pills. Marrying physical activity with the ease of swallowing a pill is genius.

Ann GarvinJanuary 1, 2014

Career Guest Post Productivity Wellness

One Thing. Today. Increased Productivity. Go!

You don’t have to do this one thing, but if you don’t you won’t be as productive as if you did and that’s a fact.

Ann GarvinDecember 11, 2013

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Clear Eyes, Clean Hearts, Can’t Lose

If you die before your big idea comes to fruition - your idea dies too.

Ann GarvinNovember 27, 2013

Balance Career Productivity Wellness

Think Saving the World Is More Important Than Your Health? Read This.

The greatest truth is this: if the health of the individual is not cared for then all the big ideas die when the thinker becomes too ill or tired or burned-out to carry them out. The big thinkers are going to need health on their side to get it done.

Ann GarvinNovember 14, 2013

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