5 Minute Mojo

I love it when someone appreciates who they are.  I always seek to empower people. However, there is a growing sense of narcissism that the United States and possibly the world.  Today I talk about ways to be more thoughtful.

It’s unsure when the word was first used, 1905 or 1923, but It certainly is known to have originated in the United States.  If it was up to me I would have hoped for a brighter word legacy than the word “sexy”.  It was originally coined to describe Rudolph Valentino, the legendary film actor.  I didn’t know him other than by name before researching for this post, but as far as I can tell he would have been the “sexiest man alive” in 1926 if People magazine was around.  Thankfully that era escaped the magazine, but nonetheless the word started there. Why do I dislike the word so much, mainly because it separates people.  It has them striving to be something imagined, instead of their authentic self.  It was relatively obscure until the 1950’s when advertisers started using it to promote their products. Just like it is today, ad men set it up as the image that people, mostly women, should aspire to be.  One word, and yet, it is used so frequently from selling cars, to clothes, to well, almost everything. Now, e

I remember all the pets we had growing up.  We were mostly a dog family, but later on we had some cats too.  They were all pretty cool for the most part.  But I had a dog Louie who was the absolute coolest. Why? Because his energy was just amazing.  Even though he was in pain from old age, he refused to die.  He didn't want to leave us. That loyalty meant a great deal to me.  He still visits me in my dreams even though it has been decades since he passed away. So which pet of yours was the coolest?  Why do you think so?

This article is brought to you by WebMD. Eating at night has long been associated with weight gain. Years ago, nutrition pioneer Adele Davis gave her well-known advice to “eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.” Yet the conventional wisdom today is that a calorie is a calorie, regardless of when you eat it, and that what causes weight gain is simply eating more calories than you burn. Nutrition experts call this the calorie in/calorie out theory of weight control. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Weight Control Information Network web site, “it does not matter what time of day you eat. It is what and how much you eat and how much physical activity you do during the whole day that determines whether you gain, lose, or maintain your weight.” A study in the journal Obesity added to the confusion by suggesting that there may be more to nighttime eating than just overeating calories. Northwestern University researchers found that eating at night led to twice as

The people in your life are not random occurrences.  The people you meet provide opportunities for you to grow and experience the beauty of the world.  It only happens though when you open yourself up to the world.

Hello my friends and welcome back to Five Minute Mojo, your evening inspiration podcast.  It’s real simple what I do here, I give you ways to look at life that will have you calmer, smiling more and living more intentionally.  Do you want to hear how I get it done?  Then let me start right in on our topic today, gentleness. If you were to stick to stereotypes and conventional thought then you would probably think that gentleness only applies to woman and weak men.  Oh, how unserving that belief system is.  There is strength in gentleness, for everyone.  It seems that these days the world is competing for your attention.  Marketers want to sell you everything under the sun, politicians are barking their platforms and everyone in your social media is wanting you to pay attention to them.  So how do they go about getting your attention, by yelling.  By yelling, being aggressive, getting in your face sometimes, and in general just being ham handed as they say.  I don’t know about you, but the more someone barks a

There is a massive misperception in the U.S. and possibly other places in the world, that sitting still, not moving, is a waste of time, has no value.  As I talk about today though, you will come to understand that sitting still brings a multitude of value.

You can stew over regrets, but you have made some amazing decisions in your life.  think about them today.

We all want to belong, its part of who we are.  So if you want to belong then get out of your shell and connect with your world

If you want to be happy then you need to take steps to make it happen.

Everyone has one, but have you ever really thought about the gifts and the lessons that your Mom instilled in you.  Come listen and say thanks to your Mom

What is your weight right now?  Is it where you want it to be. Chances are that it isn't.  it is higher than you may want it to be.  I know mine isn't. I want mine lower too.  I have a set point though.  I will never allow my weight to exceed 200 pounds. For me, that is a set point I have determined.  If it gets close then I have to take drastic steps to not allow it to go over. Set a point for yourself with anything and see it's power.

The easy questions tell us just as much as the deeper ones.  Such is the case today.

We look to the past to smile.  We think our brighter days exist there.  Those moments of joy and happiness aren't relegated to there.  Create those same energies here in this moment by using those moments as fuel. It's not only okay, its a damn good idea.

You may have some nasty bad habits; they may be big or may be small, but everyone has some things they want to change.  Today I talk about the reasons you do them.

Each of us have an idea of the kind of life we want to live.  However, the word idea is the operative one here.  Ideas are vague.  If you want a full life you need to define what that is and then go after it. Today I talk about that very thing

Happy New Year! Did you make a resolution to lose weight?  It was one of the top resolutions for 2016. The bigger question is why you would choose that if you did? I will talk about what the different reasons could be, and which ones are serving and which ones are not.

Today's question is a good one about appreciating what you have.  It will make you think, that's for sure.

4 WAYS TO STOP EATING A MILLION CALORIES EVERY NIGHT By Jill Coleman I don’t blame you for wanting to eat everything you can possibly get your hands on at night. A few months ago, I was called in for jury duty. I had never been and was fairly happy about being able to sit and read a book for 8 hours straight. I thought, this can’t be that bad–basically an excuse to not be on the computer or do real work all day. Nice. Or so I thought. While I didn’t get picked, I still had to be in that tiny room, sitting in a tiny chair with 100 other people for 8 hours, and the farthest we could walk was the 50 feet to the bathroom. By 5pm, I was so stir crazy and annoyed by the confinement of the day that all my singular mind had the mental energy for was stopping by the store on the way home and then proceeding to guzzle an entire bottle of wine. WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?? I was actually thinking to myself on the way home, “Now I understand why people who sit at a desk all day are so frigging drained when they get home, and i