🥳 My New Year's Hangover Hack

No Livers Left Behind + Awesomeness Is On Your Side in 2024

Happy New Year’s Eve-Eve, Frens!

🐲 If you’re Asian-ish like me or follow the Yin lunisolar calendar, 2024 is the Year of the Dragon with the Wood element.

• Wood Element is also referred to as the “Mother of Fire” element. So, I predict this year will be literally lit for us. 🔥

  • Mother of Fire ignites passion, creativity and invention for those who pursue. Let’s go, fire mamas! We’re gonna get out of our heads and get into action.

• 🪵Dragon + Wood Element indicates new starts, great beginnings, hard work, and power to growth and prosperity. So, have faith, eff the energy thieves, get ready to rock, and ask yourself, “What can go right?”

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🍾 🤢How to Avoid The Bottle Flu Tomorrow

My Trusty Hangover Hack

Say no to Sad Panda. Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. Do your own research and consult a physician before consuming any vitamins or supplements and beware of any side effects or contraindications

Know that any type of hangover prevention (besides abstinence) is only a band-aid for a machete wound depending on how deep you get into the bubbly.

Most of these supplements are available at any health store, pharmacy or grocery.

Here you go… good luck, be safe and see you next year!

About 30 mins before imbibing and then before every drink take:

• N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC) 1000 mg 

• Vitamin C (w/ sustained release) 1000mg

• Vitamin B1 100mg

• Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) 600mg
  

If you can, put a pinch of Himalayan pink salt in the water I know you’ll be drinking throughout the evening. Don’t overdo the pink salt unless you want to ring in the New Year with a case of disaster pants.

Speaking of disaster pants, read on….

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👖💩The Devil Wears Disaster Pants

Or, my mortifying lesson in letting go…

Photo by Chris Bridner for Visit Alexandria

The first time I turned my jeans into an adult diaper was on a crisp autumn afternoon in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, in 2008. 

I was 35.

Up to that point, I’d been on a 32-year streak of remaining successfully potty trained.

But this is what happened when the bowels broke loose on Dia de Los Disaster Pants…

Keep reading »

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💸✖︎2️⃣ There Are Two Prices You Pay For Everything

This is one of my favorite financial philosophy articles I read this year.

Every single human who must earn and use money as a means of barter, survival, etc, should be taught this early and reminded of it often:

Everything must be paid for twice.

Author David Cain writes:

“…most of the things we buy have to be paid for twice.

There’s the first price, usually paid in dollars, just to gain possession of the desired thing, whatever it is: a book, a budgeting app, a unicycle, a bundle of kale.

But then, in order to make use of the thing, you must also pay a second price. This is the effort and initiative required to gain its benefits, and it can be much higher than the first price.

A new novel, for example, might require twenty dollars for its first price—and ten hours of dedicated reading time for its second. Only once the second price is being paid do you see any return on the first one.

Paying only the first price is about the same as throwing money in the garbage.

Likewise, after buying the budgeting app, you have to set it all up, and learn to use it habitually before it actually improves your financial life.

With the unicycle, you have to endure the presumably painful beginner phase before you can cruise down the street. The kale must be de-veined, chopped, steamed, and chewed before it gives you any nourishment.

If you look around your home, you might notice many possessions for which you’ve paid the first price but not the second. Unused memberships, unread books, unplayed games, unknitted yarns….

…I believe this is one reason our modern lifestyles can feel a little self-defeating sometimes. In our search for fulfillment, we keep paying first prices, creating a correspondingly enormous debt of unpaid second prices. Yet the rewards of any purchase – the reason we buy it at all — stay locked up until both prices are paid.”

Read the rest here»

“There’s a famous dharma saying that goes: ‘If you want to see what has brought you to this point, look at your past thoughts and actions. If you want to see your future, look at your present thoughts and actions.’” - Pema Chodron

That’s all for this year, frens! I appreciate you.

Sending you light, love and sincere gratitude for spending time with me. 🙏🏽

The awesomeness is in you and the awesomeness awaits.

What will you bring forth in this new, clean slate calendar?

Drop me a note in the comments below!

Be the hero of your story,

Michelle

⭐️P.S.

For paid subscribers (thank you!), be on the lookout for a post with nutrition strategies and advice in prep for 12 Week Physique in a couple days.