Today…
Today, may you find happiness by thinking about how “lucky” you are… to simply be WHO you are, WHERE you are, and WHEN you are. Stop trying to make so much sense of things! Stop predicating the present and the future upon what has been, or even what appears “to be”. The props of your […]
Personal Training for Parents
Parenting is the most difficult workout I have ever done. It requires strength, physical, mental and emotional. It requires endurance and patience. It requires consistency and dedication. And at the end of the day, I often wonder if all the hard work is giving me the results I want. So here are some tips from […]
What’s On Your Bucket List?
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” ~Leonardo da Vinci What’s on the list of things you HAVE to experience before you die? Better yet…is there something you would really, really love to do before this year is over. Before your next birthday. Before you turn 40. […]
A New World
I have been traveling a little more lately. And it doesn’t take many jam-packed flights to notice what an impact we have on the people around us. A four hour flight is just a little magnified slice of the bigger picture. Last night I sat in my aisle seat, frustrated about the XXXL dude next […]
Milestones
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” This saying hangs in our kitchen, a reminder to pause long enough amid the chaos to notice those moments. I had two biggies this week. My baby firefighter turned 5, FIVE!, and my oldest got […]
If Not Now…When?
We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we’re frustrated that the kids aren’t old enough and we’ll be happier and more liberated when they are. After that, we’re frustrated that we are dealing with pesky teenagers. We will certainly be happy when they are […]
Yes YOU can!
A new year, a new decade. I know I speak for just about everyone I know when I say…Phew. Most of us feel like we’ve been dragged behind a bus and hit from all sides. This year, we experienced ‘stay-cations’ (a treat for everyone but the Moms), recessions, bailouts, Adam Lambert, and balloon boy. We […]
Shake It Off and Step Up!
A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer’s well. The water wasn’t very deep, so the mule could stand on the bottom. The farmer heard the mule “braying” – or whatever mules do when they fall into wells. After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer […]
Way of Life
You will hear people say that fitness is “just a way of life”. How can you begin to make these fundamental principles a way of life for you? I like the “Tony Robbins” approach. He teaches that as humans, we are motivated by two things: we seek pleasure and we avoid pain. All of the […]
Burley or Bust
I was seven years old. Times were as tough as they can be for a kid. My Dad was drinking more heavily than ever. Fights were a nightly occurrence. Finally, Mom had enough, and we moved. We were living in a tiny apartment, I was struggling to make friends, again. Grandpa Jack had an idea. […]