Category: Social Topics

  • Parallels and Visibility

    Admittedly, I’ve spent more time in my adult years hiding than I have creating visibility and it is still often my reflex. It was not until I heard a podcast reminding us all to show up and let others see us that I truly thought about it. People may be quick to say “no one…

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  • Are You Forward Focused?

    If your current motivation to workout is an older picture of how you used to look, or a pile of old clothes that used to fit, how is that working for you?

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  • Are You Vacation Ready?

    Are You Vacation Ready?

    People may tease about staying fit enough to outrun the zombies when they take over but having a ‘moderately active’ level of fitness should not be a joke for most adults. Do you struggle to bring your groceries into the house? If your car broke down somewhere unsafe with no cell service, would you have…

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  • Mother’s Day Gift Ideas

    Mother’s Day is not a surprise event. It comes at the same time every year, just like her birthday. You have a lot of time to plan and if you forgot, I’m giving you over a week, you’re welcome. Pay attention to HER and what she likes, needs and wants. 

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  • What does success mean to you?

    What does success mean to you?

    When I was at Haas School of Business, in 2007, I have a vivid memory of what success meant to me. We were in the middle of a presentation from a gentleman explaining how he successfully launched a world famous tech company in Silicon Valley. He kept talking about what SUCCESS meant to him, repeating…

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  • How Do You Show Up?

    How Do You Show Up?

    Do you show up for yourself as well as you show up for yourself? Do you find yourself searching for that elusive Motivation Bug that seldom seems to show up when you need it?

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  • The First Time Someone Said I Inspired Them

    I remember the pride I felt for her and wondering where she would have gone had I not inspired her to believe in herself.

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  • One of the MANY times I quit the gym

    In real life, it’s important to make small, incremental changes. This helps guarantee that you can stick with them and they will have lasting change. I’ve told you this before and I’ll continue to tell you. We are training for the long term. We are training for life.

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  • I Completed Over 14 miles

    I Completed Over 14 miles

    When I agreed to run with her, she said she had 12 miles on the plan. That was the maximum I imagined running that day. I let the voices get to me and I was planning the finish before we even began.

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  • Power of Networking

    The quiz she gave told us to list people from various social categories and mine was limited. I didn’t have time for friendships that didn’t involve school or my daughter. I did NOT want to attend social gatherings that were outside of my family, especially school sporting events.

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