30 colossal Oprah quotes that will make you laugh and think

Oprah is controversial for some people. What most people don’t know is that she has been raped at 9 and lost her son as a teenage mum coming from poverty in rural Mississippi. Now she is a multi-billionaire and one of the most powerful women on earth being regarded as the queen of media.

This is the beautiful effect of fasting and bulletproof coffee

In this article, you will find an overview of intermittent fasting and how it is done, how to make bulletproof coffee and some facts to rethink whether you should have any breakfast at all. Most of the ideas were taken out of Tim Ferris book Tools of Titans and tested by me over a month. In this post, I expanded upon them and provide you with more background for crosscheck if you feel the need.

30 colossal Peter Diamandis quotes that will make you laugh and think

Peter Diamandis is an engineer, physician, bestselling author and entrepreneur. His biggest projects are the Xprize foundation and Singular University. Educating leaders all the world to make better use of technology he also tries to help to improve the health of the ocean through these institutions. Here are thirty quotes from him to make you laugh and think.

30 colossal Ray Kurzweil quotes that will make you laugh and think

Ray Kurzweil considers the future to predict trends by opening his mind to paths which have not been travelled yet. Forbes crowned him “the ultimate thinking machine” and he is a co-founder of the Singularity University. Meanwhile, he works at a director of engineering at Google and author. Here are 30 quotes of Ray Kurzweil to make you think and laugh.

Which greatest songs from 1995 boost your last minute workout?

I turned ten in 1995 and it was the zear after my grandmother died in whose we lived after my mother got seperated from my father.To be gonest apart from that I can not really remember much about it. While people got massacred in Srebrenica in a war that would redefine the entire area which is is just a ferry ride away from the east coast bands like the Foofighters, Nickelback and Slipknot were founded. You will find elevenb music videos and a link to the spotify playlist in the post. Let me know what your 1995 was all about.

Have the rare willpower to timely meditate once a day?

Many of us in the west run around trying to get more done in less time. Speed and hectic seem to be the go-to tools to accomplish this feat. Focus and balance are important to perform well under stress in sports as well as business. Yet we often overlook that stopping, cleansing our mind from clutter and focusing might be just the way to achieve these means. I outlined in this post how I started meditating and how it impacted my life. Let me know in the comments what you do to stay focused and keep your mind healthy.  

How to overcome mainstream alcohol feasts to look better

A big part of becoming a better version of yourself and becoming an athlete is your diet. While there is no shortage of Instagram Accounts telling what to eat, when to eat and how you should prepare it there is not really a lot of tips around on how to pick the few things apart which are really sabotaging yourself in a big way. One of them is alcohol. I have written up some techniques and thoughts to help you to reduce your intake and to rethink your approach. Let me know what your tips and tricks are to lessen your consumption or how others you know improved their life by being mindful about alcohol.

Book review: On the map

To be on the map or off the map gets more important and easy in the 21st century through Google, facebook, youtube and Linkedin. But how did you get on or off the map in the past?

Did you ever stroll through the streets of your hometown and marveled who came up with these street names? Did you ever ask yourself why America is called America? Did you ever wonder on your way to work who came up with the design for the map pinned to the ceiling of the carriage ? Simon Garfield goes to the bottom of these questions and beyond in his book "On the map: Why the world looks the way it does".

Review of "I never knew that about Ireland" 

The White House, symbol of American political authority was invented

 here. Coca Cola launched its success story from this very country. The ideas for the Sydney opera house, Louvre Pyramid and one of the longest buildings in the world, the Kasai International Airport Terminal, sprung from the mind of the children of this very place. If you expected this place to be the U.S.A., France, Germany or China stereotypes fooled you. This all comes from Hibernia, Ireland.

Book review: A short history of the Irish Revolution

Your jump start to irish history:"A short history of the Irish Revolution" by Richard Killeen.

If you are amongst the visitors/citizens of Ireland who ask themselves why Hibernia is seprated and how this came to pass Richard Killeen's 152 page short overview is just right for you.