Hey all

Just a quick one to let you know that I’ve created a full-on, proper Facebook page/group/hub!

I’ve had a profile up on there for a while now, but it is pretty clear that having a page is the best way for me to keep in touch with everyone, let you know what is happening at energiseforlife.com and the rest of the health world/blogosphere.

So, either click here or on the image to the right to visit, sign up and follow us!

I promise to give you:

• News
• Resources
• Articles
• Discounts
• Freebies
• Photos
• Updates
• And a way to keep in touch!

I really hope to see you all there!
Ross

About Ross Bridgeford

Ross is known as THE Alkaline Diet Expert...especially when it comes to implementation and making the alkaline diet REAL in your life. He has been living, learning, teaching, coaching and loving the alkaline lifestyle since 2004 and has written over 600 articles, alkaline recipes, videos and guides on how to live alkaline and stay alkaline for life. Ross loves life in Brisbane, Australia (although is a proud Englishman) and is healthily-obsessed with nutrition, fitness and Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

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Hey, we’ve been experiencing untold problems with the site/wordpress/spam and all sorts of other goings on. But we’re back!

Hold tight for the Energise Blog 2.0 (supercharged)

p.s. thanks for the emails of support and encouragement while we’ve been away!

About Ross Bridgeford

Ross is known as THE Alkaline Diet Expert...especially when it comes to implementation and making the alkaline diet REAL in your life. He has been living, learning, teaching, coaching and loving the alkaline lifestyle since 2004 and has written over 600 articles, alkaline recipes, videos and guides on how to live alkaline and stay alkaline for life. Ross loves life in Brisbane, Australia (although is a proud Englishman) and is healthily-obsessed with nutrition, fitness and Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

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Hey all

Just a quick update! I know I have not posted on my book challenge yet, but fear not I am onto book 3! The first two (4 Hour Work Week & The Prince) were amazing. Especially the 4 Hour Work Week – totally life changing, and I will post asap. I’m now onto Freakonomics. Also brilliant so far!

So, there will be limited posting again for the next week as Callum and I are off to Date with Destiny on the Gold Coast in Australia! For those that do not know – DWD is a 6 day Tony Robbins extravaganza, almost like a UPW x2!

So Callum is flying somewhere over Asia right now. Quite a mission for him. Much less so for me as I only live in Sydney and it is a short 1.5 hour hop up to Queensland!

But after the event, expect posting galore as we both put into practice what we have learned, discovered and enjoyed from the event! I honestly cannot wait to go – it is the perfect time for both of us not only professionally but personally too.

About Ross Bridgeford

Ross is known as THE Alkaline Diet Expert...especially when it comes to implementation and making the alkaline diet REAL in your life. He has been living, learning, teaching, coaching and loving the alkaline lifestyle since 2004 and has written over 600 articles, alkaline recipes, videos and guides on how to live alkaline and stay alkaline for life. Ross loves life in Brisbane, Australia (although is a proud Englishman) and is healthily-obsessed with nutrition, fitness and Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

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Hello there!

I love reading because I love learning and developing. However, I still find myself going through phases when I kind of stop reading – for weeks on end! So I am hereby challenging myself to read 26 books over the next 52 weeks.

I have had a long think about the contradiction of this situation – I love learning, reading is a great way to learn and it gives me such a great feeling of satisfaction – so how come I can go through long periods without picking up a book? I think the answer is twofold:

1. I haven’t generally had have set reading times (i.e. before bed, on the way to work etc), and for me personally, until something is habitual I have to schedule it in. So now that I get a bus into the city most days a week, I am going to switch the iPod off and get the book out.
2. I read FAR too much non-fiction. In fact I read marketing, business and self-dev books almost exclusively for the last few years (with the very rare exception). I need to vary it up a bit, give myself a break and throw in some fiction and some other types of non-fiction (I loved studying political history and philosophy at uni, so I want to learn some more of that stuff).

So, every two weeks I’m going to have finished a book and I’ll write a review here. You might not really care that much(!) but it is my way of having accountability. And as we all know, it is the great way to stick to a goal.

So to put it formally:

For the next 52 weeks (until March 9, 2009) I plan to read a new book every 2 weeks, posting the review here on the Monday

So here are some of the books already on my list:

Non-Fiction

The 4-Hour Work Week (up first, see pic for proof!)
The Long Tail
The Game
The Prince
Leviathan
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
Meatball Sundae & The Dip
1914-1918: The History of the First World War
Call to Action
Brilliant Presentation

Fiction

Don’t Cry for Me Aberwystwyth
Running with Scissors

Hmmm, a bit short on the fiction side so if anyone has any suggestions (or non-fiction, I’m far from 26 books!). As a guide I have loved all of Irvine Welsh’s, Mark Haddon and Malcolm Pryce. Help!

There, that’s it. Its done and I’m ready to go!

It feels good.

About Ross Bridgeford

Ross is known as THE Alkaline Diet Expert...especially when it comes to implementation and making the alkaline diet REAL in your life. He has been living, learning, teaching, coaching and loving the alkaline lifestyle since 2004 and has written over 600 articles, alkaline recipes, videos and guides on how to live alkaline and stay alkaline for life. Ross loves life in Brisbane, Australia (although is a proud Englishman) and is healthily-obsessed with nutrition, fitness and Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

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The Energise blog is back in business.

We’ve had one hell of a busy ride over the last six months and we’re expanding quicker than ever. As such a few things took a bit of a back seat and the blog was sadly one of them. I guess we’re still coming to terms with everything because we are still a relatively new, small business who is finding it’s feet. Now that we’ve got the management of the business coping with our new found success we have put the extra resources and processes in place to allow me to continue blogging! Hooray! It really is probably the part of this job that I enjoy the most, so I am glad to be back onto it!

So what have we got coming up? Well, there are lots and lots of exciting projects and things to look forward to! Here are just a few of them (I will be expanding on each a little more over the next few days).

Firstly, we are working closely with Kate A’Vard, who is a trained (by Dr Young) live blood analyst. Kate and Energise are running an ongoing detox and cleanse plan to help you get your health and energy up to the next level and have you feeling better than ever. More information coming soon! (…and, pssst, it’s free!)

Unleash the Power Within is just around the corner AGAIN! It surprises me how quickly this comes around every time! You’d think I would have learned by now. Anyway, as ever we have got some of the most kick-ass seats in the arena, including FRONT ROW, 4th row, Ruby (9th-17th rows) and Emerald (40th row onwards). Click here for more info (psst, all tickets come with the Tony Robbins Personal Coaching Collection FREE!)

Dr Young is coming to the UK! We are really pleased to be a part of this and are offering a range of tickets for this too (inc. front row). He will be going through the alkaline diet in depth and will be doing some live blood analysis on stage too!

…and for a short time we are able to offer 30% off Tony Robbins Pure Energy Greens – meaning that a 6 week supply that was normally £69.99 is now £49.99. Good stuff.

Anyway, the blog is about ready to ramp up again as we move away from winter and into spring so keep your eyes peeled for a raft of interesting articles, recipes, how-to’s and discussion!

About Ross Bridgeford

Ross is known as THE Alkaline Diet Expert...especially when it comes to implementation and making the alkaline diet REAL in your life. He has been living, learning, teaching, coaching and loving the alkaline lifestyle since 2004 and has written over 600 articles, alkaline recipes, videos and guides on how to live alkaline and stay alkaline for life. Ross loves life in Brisbane, Australia (although is a proud Englishman) and is healthily-obsessed with nutrition, fitness and Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

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Hey all

Just three weeks to go until C2S! I can’t believe how quickly it has come around, although having said that, this year is flying by so quickly it shouldn’t be that much of a surprise.

Anyway, for those that don’t know – City 2 Surf is Sydney’s (and possibly Australia’s) biggest fun run. Starting at College Street in the city and winding 14k through Kings Cross, up onto South Head Road, through Rose Bay and ending up at Bondi beach.

It’s certainly not the longest run I’ve done by a long stretch, but I think it’s the run I have most looked forward to. Partly because I’ve not done a huge amount of running lately so it gave me a reason to focus on hitting the roads again, but also because it is such an iconic Sydney run. There are going to be over 60k people running it and the weather should be glorious as we are just getting towards spring now.

It also houses the challenge of ‘Heartbreak Hill’ which I am particularly looking forward to. In preparation I’ve been training by including the hill on Bradley’s Head Road in Mosman which is a bit of a killer! I did it today and kept a good pace so I’ve got nowt to fear!

Well, anyway, I guess there is a point to this post – set yourself a challenge! I had really dropped off on my running until I gave myself the C2S challenge – and now I’ve really recaptured my motivation and am really loving getting out there and hitting the streets. Without something to look forward to it is actually pretty tough to keep up the motivation, as with many things in life, if you have not got a reason to drive on then you become slack. This is particularly true though with exercise, because there are so many excuses and ways to convince yourself to skip a session or start tomorrow.

So get yourself up, find a motivating goal and get moving!

If you’re doing C2S – good luck! Let me know what time you’re aiming for! If you’ve done it before let me know your tales of woe! I’m especially keen to hear how the hill was for you!

City 2 Surf Map
My run today

About Ross Bridgeford

Ross is known as THE Alkaline Diet Expert...especially when it comes to implementation and making the alkaline diet REAL in your life. He has been living, learning, teaching, coaching and loving the alkaline lifestyle since 2004 and has written over 600 articles, alkaline recipes, videos and guides on how to live alkaline and stay alkaline for life. Ross loves life in Brisbane, Australia (although is a proud Englishman) and is healthily-obsessed with nutrition, fitness and Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

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