(C) Natasha Nesic, worklife-fitness.com 1. Feel overwhelmed. 2. Calmly listen to the endless list of to-dos for the day, followed by their respective pros and cons. 3. Observe the way your thoughts fire like bullets and counter-bullets — an image brought to you by too much anime, video games, and…

Stand with your feet shoulder-width. (Extra credit for going wider than shoulder-width, to avoid adductor dominance. Like Romeo and Juliet, you don’t want your knees kissing.) Stick out your butt — even if it feels weird. Accept that you may have not done this before, because who sticks out their…

Spend time strength training. Don’t half-ass it. Identify your needs as both a human being and a human body. This is actually kind of important, because being human and the human body tend to have different needs. Accept that as a human, you need to be able to physically accomplish…

Be on 72nd Street, on the West Side. Have a 7:20 AM train on 42nd Street, on the East Side. Look at the clock, which says it’s 6:45 AM. Be late. Be very late. Put your backpack on your shoulders and cinch it under your sternum with not-so-vague panic that…

Have you ever watched a karate master execute a beautiful, obscure samurai form? Before every step, he takes a sharp breath through his nostrils, and exhales on the strike while hitting the stance. Next breath, next strike, next stance. Now, what could that breath have to do with the ketogenic…