You know where growth takes place? One place and one place only.
Outside your comfort zone!
It’s also where you’ll find adventure, excitement, and a fresh perspective on life.
Old, tried, and true is good. But so is new and different.Read More
The Silent Destroyer
It makes your blood pressure rise. Makes you crave carbohydrates. Makes your blood sugar rise. Causes you to “burn up” your calming and repair nutrients, such as vitamin C, the B vitamins, zinc and magnesium.
It suppresses your immune system, playing a role in the development of cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, and diabetes, while increasing your risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s.
It turns damaging free radicals loose in your system. It inhibits the collagen production your connective tissue needs to sustain and rejuvenate itself and causes your cells to age faster. It not only stops the production of new brain cells, it damages your brain at the structural level of your DNA and puts you at higher risk for mental illness.
It compromises your ability to regulate your body’s immune response over time, resulting in chronic inflammation. It cuts off production of the master hormone responsible for growth and repair, DHEA.
All this makes you old before your time and shortens your life. This stuff is trouble.
And those aren’t all the problems it causes.Read More
What’s Important To You?
People do things for two reasons … to maximize pleasure and minimize pain.
Don’t’ want to have Alzheimer’s … otherwise known as Type 3 Diabetes … when you’re 60? Then don’t eat sugar and empty carbs. Pain averted.
But wait. Eating sugary baked goods definitely maximizes pleasure in the moment.
Choices!
So, which will it be?
When You Care More Than Your Client
Wait a minute. It’s not supposed to work like that.
Like what? Where you care more about your client’s success than she does.
And yet, it’s something I see coaches, lawyers, CPAs, and other service providers doing on a pretty regular basis.
Sometimes you just really get invested in your client’s success.
That’s great.
Sometimes more than they get invested in their own success.
Uh, that’s not so great.
If I’d Only Known
When I finally get some time, I’m going to __________.
What? What will you do? Fill in the blank.
Okay, may I be blunt?
There are some things that shouldn’t be in that space … things that tell me you’re just asking for trouble. And yet, a large percentage of the population might very well say these very things.
The Imperfectly Balanced Life
There’s really no such thing as a balanced life, at least not a perfectly balanced one.
And what’s more, you wouldn’t want one. And you know what? I’ll go one step further. A balanced life isn’t for everybody.
What?!!!
Slowin’ Your Roll With A 3 Year Old
Little kids say some funny things. And sometimes, our little ones say some really profound things without even knowing it. My grandson said something last week that really got to me.
Choosing Happy
We all want to be happy. Then, why are so many of us not as happy as we could be or just plain unhappy?
Is it because things haven’t worked out for us the way we’d hoped … or is it because we’re not consciously choosing to be happy?
Livin’ and Dyin’ … Lessons From My Kitty
Our sweet kitty cat, Tootsie, died on February 7. She was 18.
I still “see” her everywhere around the house. She was my constant companion for as long as I’ve lived here. I got her from the pound when she was just a baby kitten. She was the loudest one of the litter, mewing constantly, trying to climb up the cage, insisting that I take her home.
I did. She fit in my hand.
Listen To Your Body!
I had a problem. I was losing weight.
I know. I know. It’s a problem a lot of you would love to have. And I get that I should expect absolutely no sympathy from you. Understood.
But, as a competitive athlete with a very small percentage of body fat, who needs to keep my muscle mass intact, I really can’t afford to do anything that causes me to draw from my reserves.