Storms & Dreams
Look back at your career, at your life, and think of challenges you survived. It’s exciting to see what we accomplished in the midst of turmoil. Sometimes the real gifts are after the turmoil. If you’ve gone through a rough time during a breakup, getting laid off or fired from your job, how you react […]
Bridges & Roadblocks – Why We Need Both
Hiking always gives me perspective I apply to my daily life, especially at work. Almost ten years ago I discovered how much hiking on a Sunday afternoon benefited my Monday mornings, allowing me to focus away from my Monday to Friday 9 to 5 thought patterns. Hiking gave me a wall between my life and […]
Creating Your Dream Life
I’ve always been a list maker. I’d make lists of movies to watch, books to read, places to visit when I travel, and shopping lists for Costco, the local grocery, and the hardware store. Set it and forget it. That’s been my motto for many years, knowing that something is written somewhere and I can […]
Do You Do This?
New years are new beginnings. New years prompt a lot of different actions, like creating a list of New Year’s Resolutions, joining gyms or starting fitness programs, diets, and new habits, among other things. One thing I’ve noticed over the past few years is people creating a theme for the year. I jumped on the […]
Beyond the Finish Line: 3 Powerful Metrics to Measure Your Progress
Finish lines can mess with your overall progress, as non-intuitive as that may sound. Achieving your goal can leave you feeling uninspired and empty, especially if you’re not measuring the achievement as a benefit of your future self. On August 1, 2023, I finished the Live Hard year, including the 75 days of #75hard, and […]
#75Hard and Live Hard – My 7 Lessons About Mental Toughness
Have you heard of 75Hard? Many have heard of it; of those, fewer have tried it. Even fewer have completed it. Andy Frisella (Real AF, 1stPhorm) created 75Hard as a daily mental toughness challenge versus a health & fitness challenge, even though four major components are health related: two 45-minute workouts, drink a gallon of […]
Hard Like Hiking
Words matter. What we say to ourselves, whether about ourselves, our lives, or our situations, out loud or the continuous internal voice, matters. That’s why I flinch when I hear people talking about how hard something is, or that something is too hard. But lately I’ve noticed I’ve been labeling some of my choices as […]
My 2015 Personal Revolution
I am not a big fan of New Year’s Resolutions, mostly because I haven’t been the person who really takes them seriously. Does anyone really exercise more, lose weight, make more money? I haven’t. Or at least not much past January. December would find me in glum panic as I realized that my high hopes […]
Yoga and the A-Student
I’m not skinny. I’m not overly graceful. I’m also somewhat of a perfectionist, in that I don’t want to do anything where I might look stupid or possibly fail. That doesn’t leave many options, especially in the physical activity category. As someone who spent many years being “too busy to exercise” and generally a few […]
What Is Health?
According to Oxford’s American Dictionary, health is a state of being free from illness or injury. I’m looking for a lot more than just health, even more than just good health. I want wellness. I want to feel like I’m in a state of being the best I can possibly be. I want to believe […]