January was more of a level setting month. It’s my starting point to get back on track to reach my Marathon Weight (180lbs). I started the month feeling the impacts of the holiday season. Lots of food. Lots of sweets. And lots of drinking. My average weight for December was 208.3lbs. But that was a…
I just finished reading The Glucose Goddess Method by Jessie Inchauspé. It’s more of a cookbook, really. Her first book was Glucose Revolution. In it, she outlined 10 Hacks to help you reduce glucose spikes caused by eating our Western diet. In The Glucose Goddess Method, she focuses on only 4 of those Hacks. And…
Psst. Do you want to know how to add 7.5 years to your life? Quit smoking? Lower your blood pressure? Reduce your cholesterol? This one thing has a bigger impact on your life span than those other things. What is it? Having a positive attitude towards getting old. Having a positive mindset has as much…
It drives me crazy. I’m like two different people. Morning Me and Evening Me. Morning Me is full of possibility. Brimming with ideas and potential. Energetic and excited. Evening Me wants to watch TV. And to veg and not have to do anything strenuous. But Morning Me has to go to work. I can’t do…
It’s rare that I get scared before a play. Anymore. It’s weird. Because I used to get that flutter of nervousness before going on stage. The sweaty palms. The shallow breathing. That percolation of unease in my belly. The anxiousness… That darn nagging thought: Will I remember my lines? But I had a break from…
As part of my preparation for starting my new acting project, I’m rereading Do the Work. And a sentence popped out at me. I’ve read it a bunch of times previously. But it’s lingering with me today: A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you…
Just got off a Zoom call with the Director and rest of the cast for a show called Burn by John Muggleton. Rehearsals will start at the beginning of April. It was kind of a meet and greet. It’s a small cast. Four actors. And most of us don’t know each other. So, it was…
Beth Pickens suggests having a Personal Maintenance Day every month. On the day of your birth. So, since I was born on February 22, my Personal Maintenance Day would be on the 22nd of every month. It’s a day to take assessment of your life. Think about your goals. Do the things you need to…
Now that I’m in my third week of this daily blogging journey, it feels like the momentum is starting to build. Jim Collins talks about the flywheel effect in his book Good to Great. The flywheel effect is that a bunch of small actions build on each other to produce greater actions. Think of a…
A few days ago, I was talking about Resistance. That force that tries to distract us from our goals. It finds many ways to thwart us from our path. But there is counter force to that, as well. Steven Pressfield says that the opposite of Resistance is Assistance. When you declare a goal and start…
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