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Water.

That wet stuff we take for granted is critical.

Somewhere—from someone whose name I no longer remember to credit—I picked up this tip: start each day by drinking 32 ounces of water. Then after that, the person-whose-name-I-don't-remember also climbed stairs for 30 minutes. (I haven't adopted that part yet.) He said all that cleared his head for better business thinking.

It's a great point, and I've been working on that one recently—the water part. Filling a TCU (go Frogs!) quart-sized Nalgene bottle and drinking it at the start of my day.

You see, I'm afraid I've lived most of my life in a state of dehydration. And since green smoothies and other healthy foods require even more water to be absorbed properly, that's a problem. I easily forget exactly how much I should be drinking each day—eight 8-oz. glasses?—but I know I most often fall way short.

Take this morning, for example. I'm almost always awake early, and today my just-opened eyes felt really dry. Seems to me you must be fairly dehydrated if you have to blink a few times to get your eyes moistened up! Yikes!

The trouble is, I don't seem to get thirsty. Or maybe it's that I do but that's another one of those body cues I've gotten used to ignoring. (Like sleep when you're sleepy, eat when you've earned it.)

What I have tended to do is take in too much liquid towards the end of the day, which of course for me means I wake up with a full bladder. Way before morning.

So I think the quart-sized water bottle might be key.

I'm halfway through my morning quart and it's only 6:15am. Good start to the day.

Filed by Kris on January 3 2010

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