In this uncertain time with Coronavirus going around, and grocery stores selling out of some food items, gardening can be a good way to connect with food and stave off fear. It connects us back to the earth and seasons and answers the question: where does my food come from? Let's be mindful about food … Continue reading Focus Friday: Food Over Fear
Training Tuesday: Add This Six-Week Success Tracker to Your Training Toolbox
Looking for a way to re-focus on your food, movement, water, and sleep? Add this new six-week success tracker to your training toolbox!
Tri Tuesday: Using Moto-Mantras to Boost Your Training and Nutrition
Whether you're training for a 5k, a marathon, a triathlon, or another event, you’ve no doubt latched on to a few concepts, ideas, song lyrics, quotes, short prayers, or catch-phrases that keep you moving and motivated during the grind. We call these sound bites “moto-mantras”. They are battle cries we carry with us in life … Continue reading Tri Tuesday: Using Moto-Mantras to Boost Your Training and Nutrition
Throwing Anchors: Pulling Yourself to Your Most Audacious Goals
Systems are a key ingredient to success in goal achievement across all six focus factors. Whether it's losing weight, paying off debt, building wealth, or completing your first race, the success systems we build in fitness, finance, food, finance, faith, family, and fun all start with one concept - Anchoring. Anchoring is making a commitment … Continue reading Throwing Anchors: Pulling Yourself to Your Most Audacious Goals
3 Questions for Mindful Eating
Someone Needs to Say It Food is not good or evil, nor do your decisions about what to eat translate into you being a good, bad, smart, or stupid person. There is no magical transitive power that food possesses that indicates your personality or your character. Free yourself from "relating" with food - it's not … Continue reading 3 Questions for Mindful Eating
It Starts With One: 5 Steps for Breaking Down Our Greatest Challenges
The Thousand Mile Journey Lao Tzu said "the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." The hardest part is deciding when to step. The six focus factors below call on us to pay attention to areas of our lives where we may be lacking in determination, fulfillment, progress, or goals. A journey of … Continue reading It Starts With One: 5 Steps for Breaking Down Our Greatest Challenges
Goal Strong: Pursuing Authentic Inspiration
Setting and reaching goals is something that gets a ton of lip service in the self-help/leadership development world. How many of us are actually following through with what we said we would do? How many of us actually become Goal Strong? Lip Service Let's take New Year's resolutions as an example. Of the 41% of … Continue reading Goal Strong: Pursuing Authentic Inspiration
The Tough Truth About Time Management
Our perceived reality: life is crazy, and if only I could better manage my time, I could reach all of my goals and feel good about my decisions. The tough truth: time management is not a "thing." Feeling loss-of-control over time is a symptom of a few other things that need managing. Falling behind on … Continue reading The Tough Truth About Time Management
Shoveling Snow: What the Blizzard of 2017 Taught Us About Discipline
No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. - Hebrews 12:11 The path to success is rarely paved with gold or laid out with a red carpet. More often, it looks like our driveway this … Continue reading Shoveling Snow: What the Blizzard of 2017 Taught Us About Discipline
The Ideal Candidate: Three Common Virtues for Uncommon Success
If you've ever sat through an interview, you've probably heard or asked this question: "How would you describe the ideal candidate for this position?" I'd venture to guess that no interviewer has ever answered this question like this: "I'm looking for a real jerk - somebody unmotivated and unwilling to learn. I'd appreciate it if … Continue reading The Ideal Candidate: Three Common Virtues for Uncommon Success
The Secret of Change
Socrates said “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” All of our energy. Not some, not 50%, not just on weekdays...every day. All of our energy - all of the time. For an alcoholic, pursuing sobriety is not a one-and-done decision. It … Continue reading The Secret of Change
Credit Carbs
This article was originally published on http://www.moneysavvy.com - 2/28/2017 Credit has become the carb of the financial world. We know it’s not good for us in excess, yet we stuff our faces at the slightest hint of temptation. Using credit outside of our ability to pay a monthly balance in-full leaves us bloated, guilt-ridden, and … Continue reading Credit Carbs
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