I love high intensity exercise. I emphasized the word ‘love’ in with bold effect because I really love it. If I don’t get my workout in, I become one very cranky person! Stay out of my way. For the past decade, I have been very diligent about my training, and even built my own, fully-equippedContinue reading “A Training Break”
Monthly Archives: January 2021
Some Perspective on Carbs
When I was young, I grew up on bread & pasta. Especially the highly refined kinds made from processed white flours. I could eat eight slices of pizza at 13. I would easily finish 1 or 2 whole baskets of free garlic knots before eating dinner at an Italian restaurant. If my mother made pastaContinue reading “Some Perspective on Carbs”
Being Remarkable
Being remarkable doesn’t necessarily mean shining as brightly as a billboard, or making as much noise as a parade. Being remarkable might just be doing the absolute best that you can right now, without an ounce of regret or complaint. Remarkable can be subtle. Remarkable is what people feel, and what they remember.
The Rest Of Us
A lot of people say they’re not into spirituality, and that’s OK, but at the end of the day, you are literally ‘into it’ whether you like talking about it or not. You are not separate from the world around you. There is no scenario where what you do doesn’t matter, doesn’t affect everything andContinue reading “The Rest Of Us”
More
When your knee-jerk reaction is to give less, consider giving it more instead. For example: “This task really bothers me, so I’m not going to do it at all.” Or, “This conversation is super frustrating, so I’m just going to shut down and ignore it.” Anger and frustration are signs of a deeper problem, somethingContinue reading “More”
What They Really Want You To See
The next time you look at someone, try seeing their heart. Not the visual image of the heart pumping blood. See the center of their being. See what they are feeling. See what they really want you to see, no matter what or how they’re saying it.
Control Today
How often do you let something that angered or frustrated you yesterday control how you think, feel, and behave today? How many times has a hypothetical future conversation in your head accurately come to fruition as you imagined it? We’ll always have concerns and feelings about the past and future. But we don’t have toContinue reading “Control Today”
A Simple Question
“Can I meet this with kindness?” As I’ve said before, simple does not mean easy. When you’re tempted by selfishness, anger, or frustration in response to someone else, can you meet them with kindness, despite whatever feelings are bubbling up? Keep in mind that the point of this exercise, which, I recommend practicing all throughoutContinue reading “A Simple Question”
Whatever You Choose To Make Of It
I seriously look forward to the freshly ground, slowly poured-over, stirred with grass-fed butter and mushroom powder, organic, fair-trade, single-source cup of coffee that I make every morning. So you can imagine that I was frustrated the other day, when my food delivery contained the wrong item – beans previously ground to the wrong thicknessContinue reading “Whatever You Choose To Make Of It”
The Motion
In any physical position of exercise, you can almost always take it a bit deeper, hold it a bit longer, balance it a bit more gracefully, breathe into it a bit more slowly, or stretch into it a bit more fully. The question that I find it most important which determines whether or not youContinue reading “The Motion”
Matt Fried 