Our 3 part series on Brain Training will give you specific ways to target your most important fitness tool – your brain. We know that mental stimulation improves brain function. But what about willpower? Can we increase this valuable and often fleeting resource by putting it to work the same way we can make our brains stronger by learning a foreign language or forsaking a calculator?

The answer is YES.

Mealtime is often the witching hour for parents who are usually scheduled and disciplined. You get to the gym, you organize your day, you focus on good nutrition for your body and then….bam! It’s time to corral the little ones and get them to eat healthy too.

Not always an easy task...

It shouldn’t be any surprise that Americans actually spend more time watching cooking shows on television than actually cooking food. No knocks on food shows, they offer lots of tasty and healthy tips, but the challenge is to actually get off the couch and, ahem, cook them!

So what’s a person who is trying to steer back on the healthy path to do? Get off the couch and get into the kitchen. It’s an adjustment of habit – as is most everything else when you’re making new healthy choices.

Do you wait for someone else’s permission?  Has someone stolen your “Stone of Destiny?”  People often act as if they are waiting for someone to give it back to them so they can finally get started.  This writing is a reminder that you can start any day you want.  Your power comes from within.  And one famous Scot can prove it to you.