Josh's Blog

Category: Health

  • Writing, Living, and Resting

    Writing, Living, and Resting

    I used to write about life a lot more than I really invested in living it. I have some catch-up work to do in living by the principles I’ve preached. That catch-up work may occupy my attention to the point that I may not write here as much. You may have already noticed this in…

  • Motivation Doesn’t Matter Without Implementation

    Motivation Doesn’t Matter Without Implementation

    Being Specific “How?” is a universal and often neglected question. What follows is my opinion that I consider fact. Students don’t need to hear ” behave yourself”, or “do your best”. They need to hear “sit quietly and don’t poke anyone”, and “work through sections 1 through 4. If you don’t understand anything, ask me…

  • Do What Works, Even if It’s Not Hard

    Do What Works, Even if It’s Not Hard

    Do What Works, Even if It’s Not Hard I think there’s a tendency to feel like if we don’t do something the hard way, we’re cheating. While that is true sometimes, most problems are best solved through easy solutions even if they might be harder to find. Example: My time to write is often on…

  • Simplifying the Complex: Post-Appointment Tasks

    Simplifying the Complex: Post-Appointment Tasks

    “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu When facing a complicated problem, it is easier to avoid the problem then it is to figure out how to solve it. The key is to break it down into a series of single steps. A hundred hour project with a…

  • Organs Weep the Tears

    “The organs weep the tears that the eyes refuse to shed.” – Sir William Olser For someone with chronic pain, this strikes a chord. We often feel pain we do not express.

  • Chronic Pain

    Many of you know that I have chronic pain. This video is a short explanation of what is going on behind the scenes. Your body’s pain system is like an alarm system. If you get a nail in your foot, your nerves send a signal to your brain telling your brain you have a nail…

  • Study Skill #3: Sleep

    The next study skill is sleep. Yes, sleep. It has been relatively well established that you need sleep after learning to kind of hit “save” on what you are learning in the deeper stages of sleep. But, recently science is pointing to the fact that we need sleep before learning to prepare our brains. Without…

  • PSA: If you have access to your doctor’s notes, read them.

    I setup my “My Health” portal for my medical network and was intrigued to find my Neurologist’s notes from my last appointment. I found a summary of what he thinks is causing my muscle weakness and was able to do a little bit of Google-ing to find more information about the specific terms he was…

  • Chronotypes.

    I have been doing some research into sleep chronotypes and how they affect our quality and quantity of sleep. I’d like to take a look at the types of chronotypes, how they change as we grow older and why we can create better lives if we adjust our schedules to them. There are three kinds…

  • When You Don’t Feel Like it

    We all have times where we don’t feel like doing what we know we need to do. I didn’t get enough sleep last night, so today was one of those days. I’ll often try to push through lack of sleep and get distracted and not get much done. Today was a mix, it wasn’t my…