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To reach only basic health, apparently young people need to keep moving towards 2-3 hours of exercise per day, and adults need to keep moving towards:

• at least 150 minutes of moderate intensity exercise per week

  • or at least 75 minutes of vigorous exercise per week (really safely please)

• plus muscular exercise several times a week

  • avoiding exercise near bedtime/ not exercising after 8pm

  • warming up before exercise

  • cooling down after exercise (e.g. stretching)

  • eating appropriately for exercise (e.g. you need to eat more complex carbohydrates around exercise to feel alright and because you’re expending more energy)

Most people also add body shaping and weight loss goals to these, which makes the type of exercise they do not be close enough to health and wellbeing goals.

I’ve been trying to achieve this on and off for decades, and it’s not easy.

I think I found a new method that makes it way easier to achieve 30 to 60 minutes of exercise every day.

1. Try to do 100 repetitions of literally any exercise. If you do an exercise and can’t reach 100, then write down whatever number you reached.

2. Then try and do 99 repetitions of literally any exercise. And again, if you do an exercise and can’t reach 100, then write down whatever number you reached.

3. And keep going until you reach 30, 45 or 60 minutes, being really, really, really careful to avoid muscle pains the next several days.

The idea with this is to get so fit and healthy that you can

• reach 100 within 60 minutes, most days

• get really fit at the types of exercise that shape your body the best, etc., if this is what you want

• be able to do the 100 with whatever exercises are best for you

  • to avoid forcing the best exercises for your body until you’re ready… you will exercise longer if you practice with exercises you enjoy first

  • avoiding overdoing it and preventing strong muscle pains the next several days

• eating right while doing this- e.g. you will probably need more carbs if you are expending more energy… if you want to lose weight, it is intensely important that you do it gradually, or you will just regain the weight and feel terrible while losing weight (and then regaining it)

Challenge accepted?

I will definitely be trying this challenge.

The Best Idea:

Fast & Useful Mental Solution Stimulators

Do you know what the best idea ever is, that should be rolled out to absolutely everything? When you go to some supermarkets, have you ever experienced self-service checkouts that had a step at the end of the checkout process where you could donate e.g. $1, $2 or $4 to a choice of several charities?

So if you have 200 shoppers in 1 day who each made a $2 donation (because it’s so, so easy, and if the pictures and descriptions are good, it’s satisfying for shoppers too), the supermarket raises $400 in donations in just 1 day, and $2800 in just 1 week. This would help a lot of humanitarian organizations a lot.

How good is this?… And if supermarkets or shops choose 4 most needed or more neglected charities that customers can choose from per week, this is even more fantastic.

And it’s so easy to do… You don’t need to take out your wallet, and your checkout already says e.g. $87, so what is $2 or $4- more? It’s so, so easy to donate $2… And if you can choose between 4 charities, it’s satisfying and interesting too.

If you were a supermarket or business, what 4 charities would you choose this month if you were to do this? I would have 16 charities per month with a focus on neglected or most needed charities, and rotate 4 around each week. And to have a really good 4 or 5 sales sentences for each neglected, urgent or most needed charity.

There are so many charities, but right now I would start with the World Refugee Fund and a Research Fund. What else would you add? Would you choose international charities or less well known charities?

However, I get the feeling that this would only succeed if it was via self serve checkouts… Am I wrong? For example, when a cashier asks me for $2, I feel pressured, but when it’s my choice, if you’ve already spent $87, what is $2? It’s so easy.

Hard to Understand Needs

I’m the first to admit that needs are really confusing. Our bodies evolved over a long time, and sometimes are a bit backwards in comparison to our minds.

I wanted to find ways to understand hard to understand needs better, and to keep moving these forward.

The Sustainable Development Goals

Since 2000, the UN has been creating world development goals. The Sustainable Development Goals were created in 2015, based on the votes of millions of UN voters all over the world. This topic will help to simplify how to understand the Sustainable Development Goals in more detail.

Climate Change

With the past 1.5 degree increase in temperature over the past 50 years, climate change disasters increased by 5 times and the financial costs of climate change disasters increased by 7 times. Climate change is one of the most important development goals, but it is also one of the hardest to solve, because of how it affects people.

Sustainability Goals

When I first started learning about sustainability goals, environmental needs and resource sustainability goals, it was really overwhelming- there seemed to be literally hundreds of interconnected areas dependent on each other. I therefore created a number of guides to help you quickly understand the most important goals and methods.

The Best Idea:

Fast & Useful Mental Solution Stimulators

Do you know what the best idea ever is, that should be rolled out to absolutely everything? When you go to some supermarkets, have you ever experienced self-service checkouts that had a step at the end of the checkout process where you could donate e.g. $1, $2 or $4 to a choice of several charities?

So if you have 200 shoppers in 1 day who each made a $2 donation (because it’s so, so easy, and if the pictures and descriptions are good, it’s satisfying for shoppers too), the supermarket raises $400 in donations in just 1 day, and $2800 in just 1 week. This would help a lot of humanitarian organizations a lot.

How good is this?… And if supermarkets or shops choose 4 most needed or more neglected charities that customers can choose from per week, this is even more fantastic.

And it’s so easy to do… You don’t need to take out your wallet, and your checkout already says e.g. $87, so what is $2 or $4- more? It’s so, so easy to donate $2… And if you can choose between 4 charities, it’s satisfying and interesting too.

If you were a supermarket or business, what 4 charities would you choose this month if you were to do this? I would have 16 charities per month with a focus on neglected or most needed charities, and rotate 4 around each week. And to have a really good 4 or 5 sales sentences for each neglected, urgent or most needed charity.

There are so many charities, but right now I would start with the World Refugee Fund and a Research Fund. What else would you add? Would you choose international charities or less well known charities?

However, I get the feeling that this would only succeed if it was via self serve checkouts… Am I wrong? For example, when a cashier asks me for $2, I feel pressured, but when it’s my choice, if you’ve already spent $87, what is $2? It’s so easy.

Thoughts

I spent a really long time studying the Myers Briggs Type Theory and thinking about ways it could be used to optimise different types of people’s lives…

After about ten years of on and off thinking about it, I think that even though it could probably be interpreted in a wide variety of ways,

Climate Change

One way to make the climate change and environmental areas much easier to approach is the 1 or 2 hours per week plus 1 to 10 topics unblockers method. There are 8 billion people, 195 governments and countless organisations, who are all supposed to learn climate change and environmental habits. Therefore, if you advocate for all 8 billion people to do 1 hour+ per week (or 10 or 15 minutes for people who don’t care about climate change) on

• climate change research and %s of solutions for their industry and an industry of choice,

• for their own and surrounding people’s change solutions,

• on climate change solution stimulators for big picture stuck areas (e.g. costs of rollouts),

the world might actually be able to solve climate change & environmental priorities like food security, resource sustainability, air pollution, animal rights.

Climate Change Help

One way to make the climate change and environmental areas much easier to approach is the 1 or 2 hours per week plus 1 to 10 topics unblockers method. There are 8 billion people, 195 governments and countless organisations, who are all supposed to learn climate change and environmental habits. Therefore, if you advocate for all 8 billion people to do 1 hour+ per week (or 10 or 15 minutes for people who don’t care about climate change) on

• climate change research and %s of solutions for their industry and an industry of choice,

• for their own and surrounding people’s change solutions,

• on climate change solution stimulators for big picture stuck areas (e.g. costs of rollouts),

the world might actually be able to solve climate change & environmental priorities like food security, resource sustainability, air pollution, animal rights.

I need to write these:

How to Quickly Overview the 50+ Environmental & Climate Change Goals & Areas

Fast & Useful Mental Solution Stimulators - Two hours per week

We know we need to figure out the environmental and climate change areas soon, because the world is running out of time, but have you ever tried to learn the 50+ environmental and climate change specialties?

They’re all intertwined, they go hugely in-depth, and there are so many specialist areas. So how do we figure out the priorities, methods and goals, and how do we apply them on an individual, societal and governmental level?

I created this guide to help you quickly get through the 50+ environmental and climate change knowledge areas, to help you figure out priorities and methods quickly (or at least 100x more quickly than the usual way) and to help you find prioritised methods, as well as understanding some of the most important parts in more depth if you are interested.

Click on the button below and scroll to the bottom of the page to find an overall summary of the Goals, Priorities and Methods so far, or have a look at the quick-start solution stimulator summaries for 12 overall categories on the left.

Sustainability

In the past month or so, I started going into more depth in the area of sustainability, and have been searching for ways to integrate it with climate change.

Sustainability is a bit overwhelming when you first start to learn about it- it seems there are a huge number of areas that need solutions and a lot of these areas are really important (there are at least 20 suggestions in here: