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How To Turn Around Troubled Teens

How to turn around troubled teens requires a combination of Restorative Practices, mentorship programs, and teen volunteerism. All proven effective.

Bob Wayne

November 28, 2022

Fast Track Tips & Quotes

Beat brain fog

Beat brain fog – chewing gum increases blood flow to the brain making you more alert.

Success Tip Four

Success Tip Four – Remember to treat yourself the way you would like any “boss” to treat you: praised, encouraged, treated fairly, given the freedom to follow your ideas…

Reduce knee pain

Reduce knee pain by eating about 20 tart cherries a day. It’s as effective as ibuprofen and a heck of a lot tastier and healthier for your gut.

Your brain doesn’t know real from imaginary. It’s why books and movies can make us laugh or cry. So, how to clear brain fog fast? Imagine your brain 2″ bigger than your skull. Your body will flood your brain with fresh blood to feed all that new imaginary gray matter. Talk about Fast Track!

Relieve gas and bloating

Relieve gas and bloating, cramping, and spasms. Have a cup of peppermint tea or chew fresh peppermint. It’s a muscle relaxant. I also keep a vial of peppermint oil in the house. A couple of drops in a glass of water should do.

Program yourself to smile

Program yourself to smile: Your body can program your brain, just as your brain can program your body to drive or sing. Several times a day, stop, focus, and s-m-i-l-e.

Kindness Meditation

Kindness Meditation: Take five minutes every morning and think of someone you care about. Really feel it. Then think about someone you like less and try to feel the same way about them.

Get rid of diarrhea

Shredded, unsweetened coconut has anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties that will get rid of diarrhea. Eat 1 to 3 teaspoons.

Smile More

Smile More: If you have a smartphone, set the timer to alert you every 30 minutes. Take out your phone, turn off the alarm, and smile. Sounds crazy but it will change your days.

Replace animal protein with plant-based protein

When we replace animal protein with more plant-based protein, studies have shown, all-cause mortality falls significantly – David A. Sinclair, PhD.

David A. Sinclair, PhD

Five Minute Meditation

Five Minute Meditation every evening. Think of the most positively meaningful thing that happened to you today. Dwell on it. Take it into your heart. Make it yours.

Success Tip Seven

Success Tip Seven – Carbohydrate breakfasts make you sleepy; high protein, high-fat breakfasts energize you. How do you want to start your day? My folks ate a bowl of cereal every night before bed and slept soundly.

Success Tip Two

Success Tip Two – If you know what your true priorities are, those are the only places in life you need to be successful. Everything else is not important.

Make others smile

Make others smile: It’s easy. Every time you pass a stranger, make eye contact and smile at them. It will make their day and, surprisingly, it will make yours too.

Make FUN a life habit

Make FUN a life habit: take a 20-minute break every day, scheduled at a specific time to do something, anything, that is fun for you. It must make you smile or laugh. And you must do it every day.

Intermittent Fasting equates with living past 100

Intermittent Fasting reduces your IGF-1 hormone. Lower levels equate with less weight, reduced body fat, lower blood pressure, and living past 100.

Success Tip Three

Success Tip Three – Figure out the real reasons behind the things you want. Figure out how to address those needs and you will truly be successful. And more importantly, you will feel successful.

Ginger tea for workout pain

Ginger tea for workout pain: Gingerols, antioxidants with anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving properties, can reduce weight-lifting workout pain by 25%. Best practice: drink ginger tea (about half a teaspoon of ginger) within 24 hours before your workout.

Start New Hobby

Start new hobby: Research shows that if it takes more than 20 seconds to start to do something new, you won’t do it. To start a new hobby, leave it out where you can’t help but pick it up.

The Million Dollar One-Person Business

“The Million Dollar One-Person Business” by Elaine Pofeldt offers the widest range of people, the most ways to earn a great living, while enjoying the lifestyle they want. Be one of them.

Spread the love

Spread the love: Every day, think of someone in your life and leave them a positive sticky note, or send them a positive email. You’ve just thrown a love rock in a pond. The ripples will spread.

Don’t trust experts

Don’t trust experts: Everything on this site may be wrong. Trust no one who claims to be an expert. For 2,000 years, “experts” said bleeding with leeches cured disease…

Magnesium for migraines

Magnesium for migraines: Did you know that a deficiency in magnesium can cause migraines? If you don’t want to take another supplement, try eating pumpkin seeds.

Fast Track Tip #01: Antibacterial Chemicals

Antibacterial chemicals like triclosan are found in hand sanitizers, soaps, deodorants, toothpaste, and more. They kill your healthy gut bacteria, act like estrogen in your body, and stimulate precancerous cells to spread.

Dr. Steven Gundry

The Longevity Paradox

Neurofeedback training

Neurofeedback training can rewire your stress response and massively reduce your anxiety. Neurofeedback training…

Fiber prevents heartburn

Fiber prevents heartburn – People who regularly eat high-fiber foods like beans are 20% less likely to report acid-reflux disease symptoms.

Eat organic fruits and vegetables

Eat organic fruits and vegetables and organic grass-fed meats. You can spend your money on expensive, high-quality food now or on expensive medications and surgery later.

Doctors were curing epilepsy

In the 1920 and 1930s, doctors were curing epilepsy with a ketogenic diet. Anti-seizure meds put an end to that even though they only worked for, at best, 30% of patients. There’s no profit in cures…

Critical Incident Stress Debriefing makes PTSD worse!

Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) is the number one treatment in America for trauma. Testing has proven that it makes PTSD worse! Avoid CISD at all costs. Read: Black Box Thinking

Success Tip One

Success Tip One – How often do you need to feel successful to be happy? Hourly? Daily? Weekly? Use self-praise or give yourself a pat on the back (A real one. It works!) as needed to meet that need. Practice feeling successful, regardless of your accomplishments.

Success Tip Five

Success Tip Five – As one of my colleagues used to say, “Turn your work into play, and play all day.” Use creativity to introduce variety, challenge, and fun into your work.

Success Tip Six

Success Tip Six – You are unique, out of all the billions of people on this earth. No one can bring to the table what you have to offer. As long as you are giving life the best you know how you have nothing to apologize for.

Osteoarthritis in your knees

Osteoarthritis in your knees: Turmeric, found in curcumin, eases pain as well as ibuprofen. You can take curcumin in capsule form or enjoy it as a popular spice in Indian food (although it will take a lot of Indian food to give you the amount you need).

Relieve headache pain

Ever notice Excedrin is laced with caffeine? Caffeine constricts blood flow to relieve headache pain. If you don’t have Excedrin, just take your usual pain reliever with a cup of coffee.

Fast Track Tip #02: Increase Cash-Flow

focus photography of person counting dollar banknotes

There are two ways to increase cash-flow: cut costs or build wealth. Cost-cutting will eventually lead to living in a tent in a friend’s back yard; building wealth is only limited by your imagination. You choose.