life balance

Living Past 100, The New Centurians

September 20, 2009

Interesting article in The New Scientist on longevity and aging. Amazingly enough the 4 keys to long life are…drum roll please…Diet, exercise, ‘psycho-spiritual’ and social. Broken down, are we so surprised to learn, if you eat right, exercise, have faith in something, and lead an interactive social life you will live longer? Common sense. So [...]

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Problem Solving and REM Sleep

June 12, 2009

This doesn’t directly tie in to the health and fitness theme, but it certainly is something to consider. How much sleep do you get every night? If you are like many people in this multi-tasking, do-more age you probably aren’t getting as much as you should. I have no room to talk, as I get [...]

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Weight Loss Goal

May 22, 2009

There was some misunderstanding about my last post, “It’s On” especially the point about weight loss being a bad idea. Should you have a weight loss goal? Should you have a ‘target weight?’ What problems do I see with that sort of mentality? I’ll start off saying that a weight loss goal, in and of [...]

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In sickness and in health

February 26, 2009

It has been a rough and unusual two weeks. I have spent multiple days home from work, feeling sick. Last week was the strep throat, this week something to do with a sinus condition or allergies, I don’t quite know, but I am over it. (well, almost) I have a catch phrase I live by, [...]

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Fitness and the corporation

February 18, 2009

It’s a fact that rising health care costs impact the bottom line. Many companies are at their wits end trying to figure out how to either totally phase out employee health coverage or control the costs. The costs on health coverage, both general and workers comp are rising astronomically. So what do companies do? Some [...]

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The Ben Franklin Close

February 13, 2009

I did a video on this, so if you are more visual and audio, check it out: If not read on. The Ben Franklin Close is a classic technique in sales that has the perspective buyer sit down with a sales person with a blank sheet of paper. A line is drawn down the middle [...]

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Mental Fitness, Courage and Self Esteem

February 5, 2009

Today’s blog entry isn’t about physical fitness, but about mental fitness. hope I didn’t lose too many people with that first sentence. Part of this blog is ALL health. Not just parts, but recognizing that we are three hundred and sixty degrees. There needs to be a well rounded person, developed in all aspects. One [...]

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Roles and Expectations in Life

January 30, 2009

This is sort of a different post for this blog, but I think in order to have a healthy life, it also needs to be balanced. In your life at and away from the gym you fulfill certain expectations that you set for yourself, or you fail to meet those expectations.  setting those goals and [...]

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Will!POWER!

January 9, 2009

It is tough to get up some mornings. I start my day around 510 every morning and there isn’t a day goes by that I don’t at least think a bit about hitting the snooze or turning off the alarm altogether. But I don’t (at least not very often.) Having the will to succeed is [...]

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Go with the flow

December 30, 2008

I was watching something with Esther Hicks and she said that people just don’t know when to go with the flow (not exact words, but paraphrased) and her analogy was that she went on a rafting trip and out of all the rafts, no one there considered going upstream. Not even the slightest thought to [...]

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