Zuckerberg's Diet, Exercising Your Core, and Finding Fulfillment

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Recipe for The Day

Swirled Yogurt Smoothie Bowl: Make your morning meal quick, delicious, nutrient-dense, and most important, not boring. Safe to say, this smoothie bowl checks all the boxes. If you’re tired of drinking your breakfast, make this your go-to solution.

Lifestyle & Fitness Focus

6 simple steps to declutter your life

• Start small: Clearing clutter can be overwhelming, but it’s important to start somewhere. Pick one area and start there. Remember, it will get messier before it gets better.

• Value: Put a value on the item in question. How much is it contributing to your space, would you rather attract something new instead or cling to this item?

• Spark Joy: When it no longer brings you joy, it can be discarded or donated.

• Sort the items in two big batches of ‘Keep’ and ‘Discard’: Keep - If you struggle with indecision, setting numeric limits helps. Discard - The Discard batch can be further sorted into Donate, Sell, or Trash. Donating pre-loved items can be so satisfying when you know someone else gets to continue enjoying them as you did.

• Set a deadline: Setting a deadline often works, as it helps you plan your time. Many homes plan an annual decluttering activity before spring or an auspicious festival like Diwali.

• Make it fun: No one is attached to your stuff the way you are. For objectivity, ask a friend or family member to help you through the process.

7 Tips to Improve Your Exercise Motivation That Actually Work

• Focus on simply getting yourself to your workout: Just showing up is more than half the battle. Instead of worrying about the actual workout—how hard it may be, or how tired you think you’ll feel afterward—concern yourself with the sole logistical task of getting there.

• Be patient and play the long game: Acknowledge that lasting changes don’t come overnight, and that by being patient throughout the process and committing to follow through, you will see results in the long run.

• Ditch your all-or-nothing mindset: People either believe that they have to do a workout exactly how they imagined it—a full 60 minutes of cardio at 6 a.m., for example—and if any element of that plan falls apart (they wake up at 6:30 instead of 5:30, for instance), they’ll throw in the towel completely.

• Enlist outside support: Once you’ve hammered out some realistic goal setting, share it with someone. The point is, sharing your exercise intentions with others can then help you stay accountable for actually following through on those goals.

• Accept that fact that you won’t always want to work out. And that’s totally normal: On those days, avoid judging yourself or reading too much into the fact that you temporarily lost motivation to exercise.

• Avoid making judgments about your day first thing in the morning: Tell yourself that you’ll focus on simply getting through the work day and then reassess your workout plans when the time gets closer.

• Start with something easy: Do a longer warm-up and then slowly build from there—you definitely don’t want to jump into high-intensity work, especially if you’re feeling blah about it. If you want to run on the treadmill for 20 minutes, for example, tell yourself you’ll just do one minute to start, and then after completing that quick goal, reassess how you’re feeling.

3 Steps on How to Find Fulfillment

• Find your passion: The first part of figuring out how you want to spend your one and only life: identifying the activities that make you light up.

• Take stock of your strengths: Ask your friend to name three of your strengths. Jot them down. Read your top passion from the previous page out loud. Then have your friend describe your life in a nutshell, based on this passion and your strengths.

• Get real!: Refine your goal. Add your excuses. Make the most of it. Gather some friends for an idea party. When the goal of a get-together is making your dream a reality, something amazing happens.

5 Best Ab Workouts of All Time to Exercise Your Core

• Ab Wheel Rollout: Kneel on the floor and hold an ab wheel beneath your shoulders. Brace your abs and roll the wheel forward until you feel you’re about to lose tension in your core and your hips might sag. Roll yourself back to start.

• Arms-High Partial Situp: Lie on your back, knees bent at 90 degrees, and raise your arms straight overhead, keeping them pointing up throughout the exercise. Sit up halfway, then steadily return to the floor. That's one rep.

• Barbell Rollout: Load the barbell with 10-pound plates and kneel on the floor behind it. Your shoulders should be over the bar. Brace your abs and roll the bar forward, reaching in front of you until you feel your hips are about to sag. Roll yourself back.

• Barbell Russian Twist: Grasp the barbell near the very end again—this time with both hands. Stand with feet at shoulder width. Swing the bar to your left, pivoting your feet as needed, then swing to your right.

• Swiss Ball Crunch: Lie back on the Swiss ball with feet shoulder-width apart on the floor. Your lower back should be supported by the ball. Place your hands behind your ears and tuck your chin. Curl your body up off the ball until you’re sitting up.