As you’ve heard me say, it’s not about going from ‘0 to 60’, cleaning everything out of your pantry and suddenly becoming a gourmet home chef when you’re used to take out. Or, as this awesome graphic shows, going from barely walking to intense tactical training. (Be sure to click on that link and checkContinue reading “Turning The Dial”
Monthly Archives: August 2020
Do you have a lamppost nearby?
If you have one lamppost nearby, you probably have two. They’re probably about 40 or 50 yards away from each other, depending on your neighborhood. If you have that, you can sprint from one to the other, and then jog back. You can do that ten times. After a quick warm up, plus perhaps someContinue reading “Do you have a lamppost nearby?”
Emotional Eating
When my emotions are running high, it’s not the best recipe for making optimal eating choices. I’m pretty dialed in with the kinds of foods that I eat, but, even for me, a guy who lives and breathes ‘food as medicine’ all day long, I’m still human. I still get stressed, or excited. I stillContinue reading “Emotional Eating”
My Lizard Brain
Yesterday my lizard brain almost beat me. It started early in the morning ‘when nothing went as planned’. That phrase would more appropriately be worded ‘when nothing went as expected‘, because plans change. Perhaps that was my first step into the lizard’s trap. I was hoping to do A, B, & C; instead, D, E,Continue reading “My Lizard Brain”
A few minutes of meditation …
A quick follow up on yesterday’s post about breathing. If I don’t meditate today, then I am far less likely to … … be the best Father & Husband I can be … … be as Professional as I can be … … be there for you as your Coach as fully as I canContinue reading “A few minutes of meditation …”
Breathing.
It never stops happening, and we rarely stop to pay attention to it. When we do, amazing things can happen. We realize just how much we’re missing. How grand this miracle, this non-accident called life is. Also just how much what we’re paying attention to most of the time, while important, is taken and reactedContinue reading “Breathing.”
Fighting (and eating) Styles
If you watched UFC 1 back in 1993, then you remember that before Ultimate Fighting evolved into ‘MMA’ or, ‘mixed martial arts’, each featured fighter in that historic event had a distinct style. Each one was a specialist, and expert in his modality of fighting. There was the boxer, the jiu-jitsu master, the wrestler, theContinue reading “Fighting (and eating) Styles”
Knowing Where To Begin
If you’re a husband and father with a demanding job, on whom the primary source of your family’s income depends, like me, then you’ve probably woken up early in the morning, a few hours before you’re ‘supposed to’ wake up, with a lot on your mind, and had trouble getting back to sleep, at leastContinue reading “Knowing Where To Begin”
Thinking Big
To make big things happen, you have to think big. If you think ‘regular’, ‘everyday’, or ‘status quo’, then, guess what? That’s exactly what will happen for you. Thinking big isn’t always easy. You have to practice. It’s far more likely that you’ve been taught not to. The good news is that you can unlearnContinue reading “Thinking Big”
Reshaping Your Day.
What would happen if you simply focused on The One Thing that which, by doing so, made everything else that follows either unnecessary, or easier? (Credit goes to Gary Keller, this is not my idea.) Would your day completely change? Would you get up earlier and do everything that you really wanted to do beforeContinue reading “Reshaping Your Day.”
Matt Fried 