Welcome to Live Well Between Your Ears!

When you live well between your ears your mind is at peace and in control, not racing from thought to thought. You are prepared, confident, and comfortable with yourself. Calm, but filled with energy, you feel alive, motivated, capable, and able to focus clearly on the task at hand. At your best and not worried or afraid, your emotions are under control, and your thoughts are positive.

Periodically we all hit some rough spots but when you live well between your ears you have the concepts and knowledge--the tools--to help you on your way.  This site is about giving you those concepts and tools.

BTW: If you hold your cursor over most of the pics a caption appears. 

One of the tools is the free VIP Self-Esteem test. It is simple, quick, and  provides you with four scores, a graph, and average scores for men and women.

Another free tool is the Time Management test which provides an easy-to-interpret graph, customized with your input, that shows you those activities on which you spend too little or too much time.

 Things to do while you're here >

The China Study

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted...By: T. Colin Campbell, Thomas Campbell II, John Robbins, Howard Lyman. Amazon states, "Referred to as the Grand Prix of epidemiology by The New York Times, this study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6,500 adults in more than 2,500 counties across China and Taiwan, and conclusively demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.

While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as curbing obesity, this text calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such as the Atkins diet, that are widely popular in the West. The politics of nutrition and the impact of special interest groups in the creation and dissemination of public information are also discussed."

TV Ads and Living Well Between Your Ears.

Really!  You’ve got to be kidding!  I can hardly believe my eyes when my TV describes some disease I’ve never heard of and the medicine you need to “cure” it. The medicine is worse than the disease! The TV guy says the side effects can ..read more

What is V.I.P.?

VIP refers to verbal, interpersonal, and physical abilities and characteristics.  Measuring how you value yourself on these three dimensions provides a unique way to better understand self-esteem.  Other self-esteem tests only give you one score for how you value yourself. 

The VIP test gives you an overall score plus three more: verbal, interpersonal, and physical self esteem. Self-esteem grows as we improve our verbal skills and abilities, our skills and abilities for relating to people and our physical qualities such as appearance, health, and agility.

Take the free test and rank your satisfaction with 27 of your skills and characteristics. You'll quickly see which of your characteristics contribute most and least to your self-esteem.

Time Management Test

Are you a good time manager?  Which of your activities should you spend more or less time on to achieve your goals? My time management test is free and helps answer that question. It provides a graphic illustration of: (1) the importance of each of your activities for achieving your goals, (2) how you spend your time, and most importantly (3) which activities you should do more or less to improve your time management. Try it.