Musician and author, Cliff Beach, is our Choices guest today. His new book, Side Hustle & Flow: Shape-Up!, is a guide to transforming your health and fitness journey: a book every one of us needs to read and follow. To that end Cliff has written a guest post for us about motivation and the need for all of us to keep moving. Here's Cliff: Motivation by Cliff Beach Angela Duckworth, in her famous TED talk, explains that true grit is ultimate perseverance. For me, I define it as wanting to pursue and keep going long after the initial drive has faded. There’s a myth about motivation—that people miraculously love doing what they do all the time. Do you think Dwayne Johnson loves working out every day? Or that David Goggins wants to run in the snow or rain for five miles? Or that Oprah was excited about every interview she did throughout her entire career? More importantly, I’ve learned that the opposite of motivation is inertia, and the antidote is finding the smallest … [Read more...]
Please welcome Cliff Beach, musician and author. We’re so happy to have him here.
Quarantini, anyone?
I first heard of the quarantini from Jane Fonda a couple of days ago. She’s stuck at home just like the rest of us in California (the governor’s orders) and suggested we try one. Derek Brown, author of “Spirits, Sugar, Water, Bitters: How the Cocktail Conquered the World” and owner of the Washington, DC, cocktail bar Columbia Room, says, “It’s the drink you make with what you’ve got in your cabinets or freezer, and is best enjoyed with whomever you’re cooped up with — or perhaps a neighbor in need.” And if you do have the ingredients, here’s Brown’s recipe: A Quarantini that can be made with common at-home drink ingredients. 1½ to 2 ounces of a not-necessarily-sweet base spirit, like vodka or gin — or another of your choice ¾ ounce of citrus (such as lemon or lime juice), whose vitamin C is great for immunity ½ to ¾ ounce of simple syrup to sweeten things up. (Simple syrup, as its name suggests, is simple to make. Just boil equal parts sugar and water until they … [Read more...]
