In the past, I have tried to express my love for “slow”. How improving 1% a day helps us move forward towards our goals. I have seen the power of slow change, personally, and how I feel it makes me a better person in so many aspects of my life. But, to truly understand the [...]
Connecting the Dots
Goals. Dreams. There’s said about having them. Working towards something. I am a big proponent of improving slowly, of course. 1% a day, as JB Glossinger says over at Morningcoach.com . I feel that in some way or fashion we can improve a little bit every day. The Kaizen approach if you will. Continuous improvement. [...]
Shine Some Light Today
My son insisted on picking out his own shirt yesterday before school. Spooky how things work sometimes…. The plan, yesterday, was to get up early and get a run in before work. The plan changed once I saw the weather forecast. 73 degrees and sunny. So, a lunchtime run it would be. It’s been a [...]
The Burden of Being Different
Making positive life changes is a battle against your own beliefs. A struggle of wills against your own conditioning. It is hard work. Rewarding work, but hard. But, as if it isn’t hard enough, there’s a second front to wage war on. Everyone else. It is tough to be different. Trust me, I know. Life [...]
How the Weather and the President are Ruining Your Life
I’ve been doing a pretty good job at complaining about the weather lately. Spring has shown up on the calendar, but, in these parts, it has done a downright lousy job of showing up anywhere else. So much so that I have essentially retreated to the treadmill for my runs. I’m sick of the cold. [...]
More on Failure
I figured that I would stick with the them of failure that I talked about in my last post. After all, gaining a new perspective on failure is one of the biggest wins I have had in improving my life. I saw this video by Randy Gage awhile back, and watching it again cemented many [...]
A Different Way to Look at Failure
Failure. We all dread it. Fear it. I recently feel like I have failed. I came into the year, as usual, with high hopes and aiming to shoot for the stars. I wanted to run two half marathons this year. One in the spring. One in the fall. Sounded like a reasonable plan. There was [...]
Some Things I Learned in February
Part of growing is looking at what we accomplished and what we can learn from it. Well, February was one of those so-so months that start with a great deal of promise, but then kind of sputter out. I entered the month with hopes of building up my mileage base to launch a half marathon [...]
Five Ways to Navigate Through Being Sick
No matter how hard I try. No matter how strong a foundation for health I build, no matter how careful I am, the inevitable roadblock eventually throws itself in front of me. Getting sick. Or, as we playfully refer to it in this household, The Plague. Yup, it finally found me last week. Last Tuesday, [...]
How to Get Results by Discovering Minimalist Running
The internet, when you think about it, is absolutely amazing when it comes to the exchange of ideas and information. By following a few blogs and doing a few Google searches, over time, your world is opened up to the most amazing things. It makes growing as a person so much more possible. You learn [...]
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