So I decided to skip instead of run and my energy came back — Here’s What Happened My running schedule has been hit and miss the last few weeks. Can you relate? My intention has been to run 3–4 days a week. The last 2 weeks I’ve only gotten in 2 days a week. I’ve been exercising. Just doing other things like tennis, long walks in the…

Now I “act as if” and this has made all the difference. — Here’s what happened I’ve gained, lost, and gained 10 pounds since the pandemic started. Say, what?! Pretty crazy, huh? The first 10 pounds were from doing too much baking when we were first sheltering in place. You know, comfort food. Oops. I dieted, fasted, increased my exercise. That helped some. Like many of…

I used “The Big Picture” tool to make this decision and take the right action for me. — My running training plan had me doing hill work today. But I woke up this morning with sore legs. Sore legs from taking a fun, uplifting, long walk on the beach yesterday. Hmm. What to do? Do I do the prescribed hill work? Or, do I adjust? Did I make…

Here’s what happened — There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and how many problems it gives us. -Mokokoma Mokhonoana Here’s what happened I came to the first mile marker on my first run back after a long running break. I slowed to walk a few paces. …

Here’s what happened. — The back story I tried a simple meditation to soothe, calm and relax my mind and body. Eight words. In, out. Deep, slow. Calm, ease. Smile, release. I like doing my meditations while I walk or run or hold a yoga pose. But… I couldn’t remember some of the words! This was stressful…

This is so fun and playful — The back story I’ve recently read a few inspirational articles on Medium where someone has added 100 pushups a day to their pandemic-cannot-go-to-the-gym, do-at-home fitness routine. Wow. So cool. I’d love to do 100 pushups every day! And, of course, they give advice on breaking that up in to sets of 10, then…

Here’s what happened. — My happy dance A few weeks ago I completed what I thought was the last speech in my Toastmaster Pathway. There are about 20 projects/speeches in a Pathway. Pathways are one of the tools Toastmaster uses for people to grow their speaking and leadership skills. I gave my speech and participated in the…

But you can choose a different one. — When we are born, we are born into a story. We are born into the story of our family and the culture in which our family resides. We take in that story and learn the part we are to play. An identity emerges. Who we are is, in many ways…

By serving them, I served myself even more. Here’s what happened. — It all started with a Toastmasters speech project I am an introvert, like my own company, can entertain myself, and haven’t really been missing the reduced social interactions resulting from the disruptions caused by the coronavirus. However, an idea has been percolating on the back burner of my mind for a few weeks that… I would really love…