Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex

by Aubrey Marcus

Dedication Dedicated to your future self Contents Cover Title Page Dedication Introduction 1: Water. Light. Movement. 2: Deep Breath, Deep Freeze 3: More Fat, Less Sugar, or Don’t Eat 4: Essential Supplements 5: Drive Time, Alive Time 6: The Power Plants 7: Doin’ Work 8: Eat a Weird Lunch 9: The Binaural Power Nap 10: Training 11: Reset and Reconnect 12: Eat Dinner Like a King 13: More, Better Sex 14: Turn Off, Tune In 15: Sleep 16: Bring It Home Acknowledgments Notes: Here Comes the Science! Index About the Author Copyright About the Publisher Introduction Nothing is worth more than this day. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nutrition, mind-set, productivity, performance, fitness, sex, sleep—when we look through a keyhole at these areas of focus, we forget that they are interconnected and interdependent. They are spokes on the wheel of the day, every one of them necessary to ride the twenty-four-hour cycle into a life worth living. Because a day isn’t just about what you put into your body, how you look in the mirror, or how much production you can squeeze from eight hours of work. It’s about how you feel, whose lives you connect with, and how much fun you have along the way. We have to transcend the tendency to place all of our effort on one thing at a time, instead of one day at a time. Just look at the flood of transformational programs out there: twelve days to detox, twenty-eight days to skinny, forty days to enlightenment, ninety days to astronaut. What do they give ...