“Most big, deeply satisfying accomplishments in life take at least five years to achieve. This can include building a business, cultivating a loving relationship, writing a book, getting in the best shape of your life, raising a family, and more. Five years is a long time. It is much slower than most of us would READ MORE
Category: Nutrition
Health and Self-Respect
I was recently listening to an episode of Brendon Burchard’s podcast and he said something that not only caught my attention but honestly startled me because it was so bang-on. He said: “My first point today is health is luck. Dot, dot, dot AND self-respect. “It’s not either/or, it’s both. There are some things that READ MORE
New Clothes Are Better Than Old Judgements
I got some new clothes over the weekend. Every time I put on one of my dress shirts I felt bad about myself because the buttons were bulging. I’d look at myself in the mirror and feel bad. I’d carefully adjust my computer to make sure that anyone I was on a call with couldn’t READ MORE
The Delicious Chocolate Peanut-Butter Smoothie That I Procrastinated On
Several weeks ago I came across several smoothie recipes and one of them sounded particularly delicious so I bookmarked it. It stayed bookmarked, but I didn’t make it, until last weekend. While my wife has made me smoothies, I had not ever made myself one. We have a very nice blender that’s easy to use READ MORE
Think of it as Smart-Care, Not Self-Care
I’ve written about and talked about on the podcast about the importance of putting your oxygen mask on first. If you don’t take care of yourself, you can’t take care of others. Too often, however, we think of “self-care” as “selfish care”. I’ve known that for a long time, but people, especially women often put READ MORE
Scotch in the Time of An Epidemic
About eight years ago I was diagnosed with an ulcer. For several months I gave up spicy food, greasy food, acidic food, alcohol, and coffee (which is actually an acidic food). It sucked. I also took medication for it for more than a year. I got to reintroduce the above mentioned foods gradually, but my READ MORE
Eating Foods of One Colour
We have an 11-year-old who’s bored so we’ve been trying to come up with cool ideas for things she can do. As part of this, we asked for her suggestions and she had one that we agreed we would all do together. For one entire day, each of us could only eat food of one READ MORE
A Year With Medication
Some time this month is a year since I started taking an anti-depressant. I didn’t want to do it. I’d resisted doing it for a very long time, always believing that it wasn’t what I needed and wary of the potential side effects. I decided a little more than a year ago, however, that the READ MORE
Self-Care Failure: I dropped my ball, but had a way to pick it back up
In my previous post I wrote about how I was returning from giving a half-day workshop at a mountain resort in Alberta and attending a conference in Phoenix. I went for a beautiful walk and, according to the attendees, gave a great workshop while in Alberta. In Phoenix I saw a good friend of mine READ MORE
Being Healthy Takes Habits, Supports, and Accountabilities
I’ve written several posts about losing 20 plus pounds about two years ago. I worked hard at it and treated the process very much as a lifestyle change that included healthier eating and more deliberate exercising. I’ve kept up the exercise, but in the past few months the healthy eating has been, well, less than READ MORE
