Comments on: Information Diet 3.0

By: Anklebreaker

Anklebreaker — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:17:09 +0000

Information culking is where it’s at.

By: Cary

Cary — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:57:21 +0000

Thanks Leigh!
This was a reminder to keep ‘first things first’!
I always find your frankness refreshing. Keep up the good work and positive attitude.

By: information overload « ((M O V E m e n t)) f i t n e s s + p e r f o r m a n c e

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:56:20 +0000

[...] This post is in part inspired by a recent blog post by Leigh Peele (see it here). [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:41:24 +0000

Good read Leigh.

But can’t one look at T.V. as being FORCE FED POP CULTURE and an IPOD as being “SELF SELECTED” Pop Culture?

I.e. T.V./cable networks make you Believe you have many choices, but ultimately the programming (including “Reality” TV shows), and News stories are PUSHED through to you by a “panel of experts” who want to shape American Culture and the only “control” you really have is either to watch or not watch?

The IPOD user can chose what songs to download that caters to their individual taste and it’s basically self programmed.

As a Fitness Professional “Kill Your TV” means to me, stop sitting on your ass for 3 hours and telling me you don’t have time to workout and get more active.

*OR*

It could mean, stop accepting “Popular News Stories” as the correct point of view (e.g. Health Care Reform or IRAQ War) and research the issue from other sources and formulate your own opinion instead of having CNN,FAUX News or MSNBC form your opinion for you.

Okay I’ll shut up now. LOL

By: ETANA

ETANA — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:18:25 +0000

This weekend in the heatwave we lost electric power. I was so totally cut off. No TV, internet, landline phone, even my cellphone battery was dead and couldn’t be charged. It was tolerable in the daytime, but come dark and I felt really disjointed, uncomfortable, what could I/we do? My girlfriend and I sat on our deck in the dark quiet night facing the woods. As I sat there uncomfortable, resisting the quiet… Conversation came slowly, different conversation than when the TV was on, or when I was distracted by the internet. More intimate conversation. Thoughtful, but in a different way. It reminded me of when I lived in my commune in the 70’s w/out electricity and we played music and danced and sang. My life is such an information clutter.
Good post, Leigh!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:00:41 +0000

Leigh, chamelion ninja at your service.

By: Bree

Bree — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:57:51 +0000

Great article, Leigh. I have always been a skeptic, but lately it has been serving me well. And reducing my time in front of the teevee especially for mainstream and local news media.

By: Kimberley

Kimberley — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:49:56 +0000

I don’t know how old you are Leigh, but going only by the pictures you have posted of yourself… You are are wise beyond your years Girl. Such enlightened and insightful words from such a young woman.
Have you ever considered cloning yourself?!

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:45:23 +0000

Great post as always! Agree with Missy that I spend a LOT of time reading stuff that I think will be useful – as a trainer I half feel that reading other people’s methods is a kind of research! And even the really good guys have differing views – such as ‘don’t count calories’ vs ‘do’ and you see that everyone seems to get great results, but as Leigh says, this is because they are following one system and following it – not flitting around, piecing together bits to suit from different ‘gurus’!
Also love the lifestyle stuff as much as the fat loss stuff – people say they have ‘no time’ to spend a few moments weighing / logging food, but how much is wasted on stuff that takes you no-where near your goals? I’m trying very hard to cut down on stuff, without feeling like I’m missing out on the good stuff (like this post! Read it due to Facebooking when I should have been writing client programmes but glad I did!!)
Thanks Leigh!

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:37:53 +0000

“Trust that your time will be valued and respected. Only when they break that for you do you move on.”

That is a really cool thing to write. I feel like that the people I follow in training or hobby do just that. They put effort in, are respctful of my time, and make me feel good about using it on them. I just never thought of how to put it in words.

Thank you for respecting my time!