What would life be without having some fun in it. Not much. The primary reason, you and me are here is to really enjoy it, to spend a substantial time having fun. And at the same time, being excited about something, having fun is a part of being invincible. Something happens in our body that is very protective of our health when we are excited about our life’s and when we have a lot of fun. It is a kind of mind body connection. And mind is a big part of It.

Do you ever remember getting sick when you fell in love? Most likely not. Your body’s immunity system is working at it’s best when you fall in love. You are excited and you feel great most of the time. That’s what I mean, when I am telling you to find activities and hobbies to get excited about. You need to fall in love with them.

Real fun takes some effort

You say. Milan this is impossible. I can not fall in love with playing harmonica, if I don’t know how to play it. In this case, you just need to pick up that harmonica and start playing something, start learning. You have to start. And that love will eventually come when you realize that you can actually play something and you want more. You get excited about it while you are getting better at it and you will start loving it.

I am not talking about the kind of fun and excitement where you go to a different restaurant every evening because you are bored out of your mind. No, the fun and excitement I am talking about is doing something that you are really passionate about. Don’t tell me that eating bloody stakes at Italian restaurant is really your passion. If it really is, well than I am sorry. You poor blood thirsty human being.

Start doing stuff you always wanted to do

The fun and excitement I am talking about is doing something, you know fun! The fun stuff like playing guitar, piano or other instrument, surfing, playing golf, playing tennis, getting ready for your first marathon or swimming across the English Chanel, or climbing the mount Everest or just a nearby little peak, fishing, camping, whatever it is that you enjoy. And even if you don’t enjoy it, but you always wanted to do it, just start doing it. If you stick with it, you will most likely start loving it too.

My form of fun and excitement is quite rich. I love to go surfing. I love, love, love that sport so much. And I am not even close to being great at it. But being in the water in beautiful environment, having a fantastic workout and getting better by learning how to rip recently gives me incredible joy. My goal is to take part at Czechoslovakian open cup of surfing that takes place in France. And I know that some day I will. You can throw 10 sharks in the water and let them circle there for a month and I will find a way to do my surfing.

My other passions are playing guitar, playing tennis, I love windsurfing and I plan to get back to it soon. I love writing and since it’s pretty challenging activity for me, because I write in English and English is my second language I love it even more. And I am getting better at it. I love to paint and doodle and I am interested in all the artsy fartsy stuff. I did a lot of art metal processing before and I am definitely planing to get better at it. That’s quite amazing fun to, bending and forming hot iron. All kinds of art techniques incredibly interest me.

I have incredible fun doing all this exciting stuff. But I am far away from being a master at them. Once you get just a little better at certain activity, it will become fun. You will get excited. It takes some work in the beginning. But than, it’s just pure fun and joy.

I can go on and on with the things I plan to do in the future. If the days had 50 hours they wouldn’t be long enough for me. I am by nature very passionate person. And if you are not, than I am sorry. Are you ok with it? Does your life seem like a time full of boring chores? Than my advice to you is to give it a try. Find something fun and challenging to do. Otherwise, you are going to be very disappointed at the end of your life.

Force yourself to have fun

If you think that you are just not that passionate person, because nothing really interests you, than you can really change that. Often we don’t like certain activity when we are not good at it. The key is to enjoy the process of it.

I would often get discouraged while playing tennis, because my backhand just wasn’t that great and I would get beaten very badly by my opponents playing matches. My opponents would always serve on my backhand and I would always make an error. Very easy way to win. It would get ugly many times when I threw a racket against the floor. I would brake quite a lot of rackets these way. I was disgusted by it. I am sure, if I were a pro player, I would be something like a bad sport John Monroe was. Not a very admirable think after all.

But I didn’t give up. I would work on my backhand and over time it would get much better. And my excitement about tennis grew, when my game got better. My backhand now is my strength and I often hit a winner right from my opponents serve. No more free points for my opponent by making errors. Now they have work hard for every point. Subsequently my excitement and passion about tennis grew. I love that sport.

The key is to enjoy the process of learning the skill. You have to realize, that you are not going to be great right from the beginning. But every time you try, you will get better. And if nothing is working, than force yourself to try, try and try again. Realize, that you had been put on this world to have some fun and not be miserable all the time.

Measure excitement in your days

If they told me that I have 6 months left to live, I wouldn’t change one thing in my life. I love every single thing I do in my days. And on my last day I would be certainly sad, but i wold be at peace. I did already have some very, very, very serious, exciting, fun time here on this earth. And I am still planing to have some very, very, crazy exciting good challenging time here. And I know I will. I am almost invincible after all

Can you say the same thing about your life? If not, why not? Are you saving yourself for a later prime, or you are just a naturally bored person. If you are it’s time to wake up. It’s time to get excited about something. It’s time to have some serious good time. It’s important and necessary in our life’s. It’s part of being invincible. The protective mechanism of being excited is huge. You can’t pass it if you want to be invincible. Find a a way to do it. Keep trying. Don’t give up. Than try some more and more. And try some more. And one more advice. Try some more.

Above average overweight friend told me the other day, that it’s impossible for him to have six pack. When I told him, that he already has six pack abs, he started laughing. Yes, I am serious about this. Not only I have a six pack abs, you too, my overweight friend, as well as every human being.

Six pack abs – you just need to unpack it

So where is your six pack? You say, you can’t see it? Yes, nobody can see it, because you didn’t unpack it. Your six pack abs are nicely packaged under your very carefully over lapping fat on you belly. And it is waiting for you to unwrap it.

Unwrapping your six pack abs

How do you unwrap you own six pack abs, so you can show it on the beach? Your six pack abs are wrapped in three main layers. And you need to uncover these layers. You have to follow few simple steps:

First, start taking the first layer of your packaging material in which your six pack abs are covered with cutting your carbohydrates to the minimum. This means consuming less than 100 grams of carbohydrates per day. It is quite easy done when your carbohydrates consist of mainly vegetables and some fruit.

Second, start taking the middle layer of packaging by doing your regular workouts focused mainly on intensive weight training of large muscle parts like leg muscles, back, shoulders and chest muscles. Don’t worry about abs exercises just yet. Add some cardiovascular exercise mixed with sprints and intervals.

Than take third layer of, which is eating a very healthy overall diet consisted of not processed foods, enough protein, plain unsweetened beverages and you keep unwrapping for long time.

If you manage to persist with all this unwrapping your most wished present, I will guarantee you, you will have that present – six pack abs unpacked by Christmas.

I will not lie to you. It takes some time. Your six pack abs were packed very well over very long time. A lot of packaging material needs to be taken away before you can see them. But eventually you will see them. Remember? We all have them. You just need to unpack them.

People get obsessed by security. They avoid dangerous situations. They accumulate lots of money and always feel like they don’t have enough to be secure to the future. We get afraid in this world a lot even do there is almost no real genuine reason for us do do so.

So we hide, secure our homes, accumulate more money, build high fences and pay for expensive alarm systems.

But we often forget about one of the most important, most genuine security in this world: Our health, injury prevention and longevity. And we often don’t obsess about this kind of security at all. We just exercise and eat healthy diet whenever we have time. That’s what I am suppose to do, right? You tell to yourself. If we don’t, we skip it, without any guilt. Hey, tomorrow is another day, right?

You will most likely not be robbed on gunpoint in your lifetime, or you will certainly not starve to death on the street, because you run out of money. If your house gets ever burglarized, it will most likely happen, when you are on vacation and all they will take is some worthless electronics and maybe some jewelry. The most valuable things in your house are the pictures of your kids after all. Everything else is just a worthless junk.

But, you are very likely to become diagnosed with one of this scary life threatening diseases in your lifetime: diabetes, cancer, heart disease, broken hips, Alzheimer’s disease.

Now, Guess what? The best way to prepare for disaster like this. The best security for these genuine dangers in our life is to exercise and eat healthy diet. Maybe you should obsess about these just a little bit more from now on.

Richard Branson, the English entrepreneur was asked what is the single best think to do to increase productivity. His answer was very short: “Work out.”

The inside is different than outside quip is just not true at all. If everything is working inside your body how it’s supposed to, if you are insanely fit and healthy, than the outside is going to be the same. Productivity included. You will be insanely productive.

The opposite is true too. If your inside is broken, if you don’t feel good, your health is not that great, than the outside is going to be the same. Productivity included. You will not have the energy, enthusiasm and drive to make things happen.

I met Sir Richard Branson on the airport few years back. He is insanely fit. His productivity is insanely high. His inside reflects the outside.

Stop looking any further. This is it. Wanna improve your productivity? Work out!

Eating perfect invincible diet and doing everything necessary to become invincible is one thing that we have in our full control. Staying away from toxins and dangerous toxic chemicals is another. These stuff can be only partially under our control. But you can do a lot to minimize toxins from your life.

And you are partially already doing this by eating diet consisted of whole foods, and staying away from processed conservative, sugar and flour loaded foods. Our body doesn’t recognize these on first sight harmless substances. While keeping toxins on check by eating good diet, there are another kinds of toxins all around us you. And you need to put some effort to avoid them.

Dirt is not that bad, really!

I know people who start frisking out as soon as they see a death spider, dog poop, sand in the car, dirt in the pool, green looking lake, smell of a bad yogurt in the fridge or a smell of a death animal in the nearby creek. Most of the time these stuff are totally harmless to us. Why? They are organic. They come from nature. They are totally natural.

We feel very comfortable and pleased by swimming in clean blue pool that’s full of chlorine, or hanging out at the rooms with new carpets. We enjoy new smelly cars and we generally like clean disinfected environments. The problem with all these stuff we enjoy is, that they are very dangerous for our health. They are clean, new and disinfected by chemicals. The kind if stuff that is very toxic for us.

We would be way better leaving that living room floor dirty, dog poop included, that cleaning it with bleach and keeping it sparkling clean. Just the thought. That’s why I am not a kind of guy overly obsessed with cleanliness. Actually I almost never clean stuff. I am more likely to walk around the dog poop at my living room and kicking it under the sofa, than taking a bottle of bleach and cleaning it. Yes, you don’t want me to be your roommate at all.

You might say, Milan you are turning Berkeley. Like all those granola people over there! Yes, I live very close to Berkeley. But, no I am not turning Berkeley. I love Berkeley and all those people anyway. But this is not a certain kind of fashion here I am talking about. This is a serious stuff. Chemicals are a real threat to us humans. Cancer is on the rise, we are getting brain death and very sick over time. And big part of it is huge chemical exposure. And if you want to be seriously healthy, you have to try to avoid these chemicals as much as you possibly can. It’s not fashion, it’s life and death mater.

Toxins are all around us

Whenever you are washing dishes, cleaning your house, replacing carpets, doing laundry, taking shower, washing your hair, putting moisturizer on your skin and many many other activities, you are using some potentially harmful chemicals. And also, whenever you go out somewhere, either its outside or inside you are exposed to chemicals.

I work in the fitness industry and hang out a lot around gyms and pools. While this kind of work might seem like really healthy work environment, I get a fair share of chemicals exposure. There is chlorine and bromine in pools and hot tubs. The locker rooms and gyms are cleaned with all kinds of chemicals. And ivy growth and insect repellents are used to keep environment pleasing. Luckily I work mainly outdoors in a beautiful wooden environment and the air is always ventilated and chemicals are keeps on minimum.

Keep your environment well ventilated

Either you work in the office or you are staying at home, or work in the workshop, try to keep your environment constantly ventilated. It is the best way how to prevent breathing chemicals trapped inside. Keep the windows open. Create air flow. Breath fresh ventilated air. If you are cold, put extra layers on, or do some push ups, pull ups or jumping jacks every 30 minutes or so to keep blood flowing.

I do this all the time. In fact, I can’t stand closed, warm, unventilated areas. It gets me to fair amount of conflicts with my family and coworkers too. When I open window on a cold day, people tend to frick out and say things like: you are crazy Milan, what are you doing, it’s freezing outside. While I try to educate people about this, I am not very successful with it.

When I am cold I simply hang on the bar and do 20 pull ups or do 50 squat jumps. I do this quite often. My days turn this way into incredibly active workout days. Sometimes at the end of the day when I count how many pull ups I did, I get really surprised. I did this recently, and counted 237 pull ups in one day. I doubt monkey in ZOO does more than that.

One argument people usually use to stay in warm, closed environment is than they will get sick. They say, that they don’t want to catch a cold. But the opposite is actually truth. People, event those very knowledgeable and intelligent don’t understand, that they get sick by getting into a contact with germs and not with cold. And germs love unventilated areas. So you are more likely to get sick in warm room with closed windows, than if they put your office desk on top of Mount Everest at – 30 degrees of Fahrenheit.

Many new parents make this mistake too. While their intention is good and they want to protect their baby from cold, they overheat their homes and they keep windows closed so the baby doesn’t get his hands cold. But it’s way better for the baby to be in colder, more ventilated environment. The little body of a baby is much more sensitive to chemicals trapped inside. If you have a baby at home, open windows frequently to bring in fresh, clean air.

Anyway, trust me on this. Keep your environment ventilated at all times. You not only prevent inhaling indoors trapped chemicals, but you will be way, way less likely to get sick. The only exception in this is, that you live close to a dangerous chemicals exposing factory. In this case, my only advice to you is to move far away from there.

Don’t put anything on your skin you wouldn’t put in your mouth

Is your skin dry? You want to put something on your skin after a bath? Put olive oil on your skin or almond oil or coconut oil or butter. Yes, the one you buy in your grocery store. Would you eat olive oil? Of course you would. Would you eat skin lotion from your drug store. I don’t think so. Same with coconut oil and almond oil. They are delicious and they are great for your skin. No chemicals and preservatives are inside the olive oil bottle. No, there is only one thing – olive oil. And they smell naturally great too.

One way for women to avoid chemicals is to put coconut butter on their skin instead of some body butter made in the factory. Thai kitchen whole fat virgin coconut milk in can can be a great body butter and very healthy and naturally good for the skin. You open the can, take the fat from the can, that’s the butter (fat tends to separate from the juice) put it on the skin and drink the juice while doing it. When my hands get dry I put some 100% coconut butter on them and it protects them naturally. And they smell like coconut too. I used to put petroleum jelly on my hands. Not anymore!

Our skin absorbs stuff. The stuff you put on your skin will eventually get inside your body. So why would you use all those chemicals loaded lotions? I don’t see any reason to do it. I put only olive oil and coconut butter on my skin, nothing else. There are some other great options, like real butter or lard. But I don’t feel like opening a fridge and cut a piece of butter every time I need some skin lotion. I simply open an olive oil Bottle I used last night for my salad, pour little bit on my hand and put some on my skin. Or I open a coconut milk can, take some fat out of it and put it on my hands, and use the rest for delicious smoothie.

How about soap? How are you suppose to get clean? You wouldn’t eat soap, would you. Believe me, there some soaps that are totally eatable. And you should use those soaps. Vegetable glycerin soaps are great and not toxic. While you would be safe eating them, please don’t. They are not that tasty anyway. You should use the same vegetable glycerin soap for hair washing too. I don’t care what Head and Shoulders company say, the plain natural stuff is best for you.

Use protection – rubber glows and get outside

Whenever you don’t have a choice and you have to use a chemical, use robber glows. Make sure it doesn’t touches your skin. And try to handle this chemical outside or in very ventilated area. If you don’t have a choice to go outside, simply don’t do it, use something natural to do it or refuse to do it. If it is a part of your job, quit that job now.

Your health is the most important thing it the world. Way more important than the profits you make for your boss. I don’t care how big unemployment is right now, or how the jobs are tough to get, or economy is bad. I would rather become homeless and live with my family under the bridge, than work in the chemicals infested environment. Its way better to be homeless than suffer a terrible death 10 years down the road from lung cancer. Jobs like this shouldn’t exist in the first place. Your life is too short and very precious for that.

I know a place I would never work at. It is a commercial pool cleaning and supply chain. Always when I go there to buy stuff from them and enter the store, incredible smell of chlorine and other chemicals blow me away. As soon as I am there, I am basically sprinting to buy all the stuff I need and I try to get out of there as soon as I can. While at the register, smiling employee tries to chat, I am telling him that I got to run. I will come up with something like, my grandma is sick and she needs my help right now or other lies.

This is simply unworkable environment for me. And if they offered me 2 million dollars per year to work there, I would turn them down. And so should you.

Spent a lot of time outdoors in nature

Hanging out outside hiking, walking, doing sports, doing you cardiovascular exercise or just relaxing is not only great for your brain, it’s great for your body too. It’s part of the toxic chemicals reduction strategy in your life. There are way less toxins outdoors, especially attractive outdoors like woods, mountains, lakes, beaches, than anywhere else indoors.

They say, that the cleanest air is jut at the top of the ocean. And how do you get to breath the cleanest air there is? You become a surfer. If you don’t live in the area where there is a good brake, make sure your vacations will be at the beautiful ocean coast. No, you don’t really have to become a surfer. Just hang out at the beach playing Frisbee, soccer or beach volleyball. You will get to breath the cleanest air there is.

I live in San Francisco Bay Area. And this area has a reputation of having the cleanest air in the world. And I believe that. While you would think that living in a huge metropolitan area like this has to have some serious impact on the quality of the air, it’s the cleanest. Why? If you ever been here, you certainly experienced fogy parts of the days that are here regularly. You wake up into a foggy morning. Than by 1 pm it clears out, sometimes doesn’t, and the fog rolls back in in the evening and it will take all the smog with it when it disappears. Plus the smell of the cool ocean is so refreshing here on regular basis. I wouldn’t change it for anything.

We human beings were Suppose to spend big chunks of our time outside on fresh air and sun. And than after industrial revolutions we are stuck in the dusty, stinky, chemicals infested offices. To make things even worse, we hang out after work inside dusty, stinky gyms, coffee shops, shopping malls and homes watching tv.

Suddenly going out seems like very rear thing to do. If we are smart enough, we make it somewhere to the nature on the weekend. Others, not that smart stay home or go shopping.

I encourage you to find a way to make it outside more often. Make your afternoon workouts outside. Spend your office breaks outside. Just make it a rule to hang out outside more.

One of the people I admire the most, and at the same time am a little bit jealous of are those who travel from south or north of San Francisco to work in their offices and on the way back home stop at one of the great nearby beaches and surf for few hours before they get home from work. I don’t know a better, healthier activity on a clean fresh air where you also get a great workout and learn fun skill than surfing. They carry their board in their cars in the morning, they get done with their work and go surfing. And some of them do it before work and also after work. Talk about a perfect work- fun balance. If I lived in Moss Beach and worked in SF downtown, I would do the same thing.

Stay away from chemicals

Staying away from chemicals and toxins is not that hard. It’s just a matter of realizing, that simple is often better. We don’t need to put all that stuff on our skin to stay young looking. We will most likely stay young looking without them. We need to keep our environments well ventilated and hang out more outside. And we need to use less cleaning supplies. In fact, dirty can be a very, very, very clean.

Some tips for safe cleaners at home:

For glass – use newspapers and water instead of Windex or the other chemicals. It will clean the glass even better.

For grease – use citrus fruit or any fruit juice, lemon is the best because it contains the least amount of sugar.

For wood floor – use water with little bit of olive oil

For tile and linoleum – soak few black tea bags in a bucket of hot water overnight. By morning it will be cool and ready. Tea is natural cleanser and it’s wonderful for sanitizing.

For Carpet cleaning – rent steam cleaner and instead of store chemicals add cup of clear vinegar to the water.

For porcelain sinks, tubs and toilets – borax and baking soda are perfectly natural and safe.

For general clean up – use spray bottle with 3 parts water and 1 part of clear vinegar. For more serious counter cleaning, you can add just a few droops of bleach, you really only need few for killing power.

As a fabric freshener and room deodorizer – use natural oil with your favorite smell – lemon, rose, lavender, jasmine, rosemary. It will last and last.

For water stains – use water and vinegar

As detergent – make your own safe, Eco friendly detergent! I personally haven’t done this just yet, but it is on my list and considering all those chemicals and allergens in regular detergents I buy in the store, I am very close to doing my own.

Chemically free detergent – you’ll need a bar of vegetable glycerin soap, one box of washing soda, box of borax.

Here is how to do it:

Shave the soap into a pot of boiling water, about 3 cups. Add this highly soapy mixture to the 3 gallon pot of plain water. Stir. Ad washing soda. Stir. And if you want ad borax and stir again. Done!

Yes, I am not kidding here. All these stuff are really worth doing! They take some time to prepare, but they are completely natural. And while we rather buy the done stuff in the store because our life’s are too busy already, we are not saving any time in the large-scale at all. We will most likely be death much sooner not spending some time to prepare these safe cleaners and buying the easy fast strong chemical in the store. What kind of time saving is that? Think about it and if you want to become invincible act accordingly.

I am offering new services. It’s called Fridge Buster Services.

Description of the service:

I will come to your home or business, open your fridge take all the crappy processed foods that bad daemons living in your fridge made you bring in and eat it away.

First:

I will bust your fridge completely. I will take away everything that’s bad for you.

Second:

I will bust and clean your fridge from bad ghosts and daemons, using special tools. This few minutes procedure will get rid of the bad daemons, ghosts and spirits who have been living there for a very long time, making your eating habits terrible for your health.

Third:

I will stock your fridge and cupboards with fresh and healthy stuff,  bring you a weekly eating plan and throw 1 free home personal training session.

Price for the service: Very expensive.

Why? I am going to be dealing with dangerous ghosts, spirits and daemons and they too can take over my life. And having clearly visible six pack abs as my biggest marketing tool, I can’t afford to loose it – very high chance when dealing with bad eating habits daemons, especially fridge daemons. Still, I am willing to put my six pack abs on the line for you.

Am I only kidding?

Not at all. I am deathly serious about this service. I am only serving San Francisco Bay Area for now. But for very special reasons, I am willing to fly anywhere in the world.

If you are interested in my Fridge Busting service, please email me: mstolicny@hotmail.com

Please no jokes and funny emails. This is a very, very serious service business.

Questions and answers:

What happens when customer suddenly becomes angry and will start protecting the tasty, processed stuff being taken from her fridge?

Costumer will be handcuffed to the chair, while fringe busting service is being done. Fridge buster will always have handcuffs with him.

What will Fridge Buster do with all the bad stuff taken from the fridge?

The stuff that’s very bad for everybody will be discarded, other stuff that could be still possibly used will be donated for poor people.

List of healthy groceries I will bring, the stuff that should always be in your refrigerator:

Nuts – almonds, walnuts

Fresh Eggs

Organic unsalted almond butter

Organic unsalted peanut butter

Seasonal fruit – apples, pears, peaches, oranges,

Avocados

Greens – mustard greens, kale, turnip leafs

Whole organic chicken

Lean ground turkey

First cold pressed virgin olive oil

Firm organic tofu

Green tea

Whole white yogurt

Whole milk

Can of sardines in spring water

Can of wild salmon

Can of lightly smoked herring in canola oil

100% dark chocolate

Whole cottage cheese

Why should you hire me?

I am:

Trustworthy

Brave – not scared of bad fridge ghosts

Good looking with six pack abs

Very knowledgable about healthy eating and fitness

I am ruthless with junk food – if it’s junk it’s going out. And food is either junk or good stuff, nothing between.

Here is the universal truth of human nature: people are generally lazy. Me included of course.

When I go surfing and I have to paddle out very far away just to reach the break and there are strong currents out there, I need to preserve some energy to get back to the shore. Not following this rule got me already in trouble few times, luckily with a happy ending. We are all constantly learning. So we don’t do the stupid mistakes like that again. And conservation of energy was necessary in this case.

Researchers have studied marathoners and ultra marathoners (people who regularly run very long distances) to learn about how the body responds to pain. Here is what they have found: when you are so tired, that it feels like you are about to die at any second, physiologically you are not even close to actually dying. The signals, your brain is sending to your body is to keep some energy in reserves, just in case you might need it later.

There are some genuine reasons to conserve energy, like my example with surfing and having enough of it to get back. Other times do, conservation of energy is stoping you to get better, to progress.

Conservation of energy explains why some people stay in dead end jobs for decades, even thought they know, the position isn’t great. If the work is ok, the bills get paid, and the job never becomes stressful or frustrating enough to violate expectations, people generally won’t go out of their way to get a promotion, find another job, or start a new business.

If you think you make enough money, you probably won’t do much to earn more. The same way, if you think you are fit enough, strong enough, and in good enough shape, you won’t push yourself to get better. Yes it’s great to have all the good stuff. But as soon as you reach the good enough level for yourself, you become to stagnate. You will start to conserve energy and with that stop growing. It’s quite natural thing to do. We are wired to conserve energy to survive.

It’s pretty common thing to see a successful athlete maintaining his performance level for 10 years after reaching it in 3 years. Or a successful businessman getting complacent, fat and lazy after amazing his fortune.

The message here is this: know when to conserve energy. It is important. However, if you conserve it and you don’t really have a good reason for it, you stopped getting better. Your growth got stumped. Not a very good place to be, however successful or fit you are.

Should you conserve some energy? The answer to the question is no, unless you are in life threatening situation like for example, getting out of woods without having any food left. It wouldn’t be smart to do 10 – 1 mile laps around the lake before starting looking for a way out. But you will most likely never face situations like this unless climbing K2 is on your to do list. And all you are doing right now, when conserving energy, and we all do conserve energy is drifting in your comfortable zone.

The best way and safest to reaching our true potential is actually reaching our true energy limits in a safe environment. If you can get to that point, congratulations. It’s very, very, very hard thing to do.