It’s important to know how much of foods ‘X, Y, & Z’ you should eat today. Of course, that will change daily. After you’ve been on your individual (redundancy intended for emphasis) for a while, you begin to put together different skills you have acquired. One of those skills is the ability to weigh &Continue reading “Weighing & Measuring”
Monthly Archives: November 2021
The Monday Before Tuesday
How much of tomorrow’s agenda can you eliminate or minimize by either completing, preparing, or delegating in advance? If you look closely, it’s probably a lot. The real question is, why do you keep waiting until the hour (or minute) before? Tomorrow can go at least 50% more smoothly than your usual Tuesday, if youContinue reading “The Monday Before Tuesday”
The Fear Gap
There’s a gap between safety and freedom. That space is filled with fear. In order to get from one side to the other, you need to cross over. Whether you sprint & leap, tip-toe, or jog is up to you. But there’s no going around.
Thousands of Things
Every morning, the first thing I do is meditate for twenty minutes. This comes before exercise, work, and typically, any interruptions. Except, it’s not exactly the very first thing that I do. Technically I open my eyes, stretch out my body, crack my neck, perhaps hit the snooze bar once or twice, put on exerciseContinue reading “Thousands of Things”
Some Breath Parameters
The breath, when you’re at rest, and not intentionally practicing a specific type of breath-work, should be relaxed, effortless, easy, slow, nasal, and diaphragmatic. It should not be shallow, through the chest or mouth, rushed, forceful, or tight. A pace of 10 to 12 respiration cycles per minute (1 cycle = 1 inhale + 1Continue reading “Some Breath Parameters”
The Thursday After Tomorrow
If you’re going to eat everything on the table tomorrow, enjoy! My question is, who do you want to be next Thursday, the Thursday after Thanksgiving? How do you want to feel? Look? If the answer is ‘a few pounds lighter than I was on Thanksgiving’, then check out the post here about the ZenContinue reading “The Thursday After Tomorrow”
Every Week
For 267 days in a row, I have done a 45-minute Zen57 class each morning. As part of class, we hold various poses; one of them is a ‘downward dog’. About once a week, we’ll hold that for as long as five minutes. Just this week, I held my best downward dog to date. WhatContinue reading “Every Week”
Self-Colored Glasses
I mentioned reflection the other day. In order to reflect, you must ask yourself: Who are you? How did you get here? What took place in order for you to arrive here, today, to make you who you are? And remember: our reflections are always made through our own personal lens of perception. A pairContinue reading “Self-Colored Glasses”
Reflection
The push-up plank is a ‘pose of reflection’. In order to hold it for 3, 4, 5 or more minutes – with good form – you must look deeply into your own mind. If you’re afraid to do that, you will fall down. You must be with your thoughts. You must breathe. You must allowContinue reading “Reflection”
The Option To Read
I always keep a book nearby. One by my bed, one in my shoulder bag, one on the passenger seat in my car. That last one is always small, light, and fits into pockets or is easy to carry into the supermarket, specifically, for checkout line reading. Typically that will be a book that I’veContinue reading “The Option To Read”
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