“Failure is not option.” I call BS. Failure is always an option. If it were not, life would be easy. After a recent milestone birthday, combined with numerous health challenges arriving simultaneously have resulted in a bit of deeper reflection on this idea. Long ago knee injuries from sports resulted in the inevitable diagnosis of […]
The expectations, beliefs, and perceptions about exercise can ultimately promote – or possibly inhibit – its benefits.
What if you limited the vocabulary you use to describe exercise? What if the only words you knew were positive and motivating?
You are not a bowl of fruit. Yet. With time we move less as advancements in society engineer movement out of everyday life in ever-expanding ways. The result is that instead of running around hunting and gathering to survive, we now have to re-insert physical activity into our days in discreet segments of time we […]
Decide – like homicide means to murder – means to kill off other choices. Isn’t it time to decide to be healthy once-and-for-all.
The endless source of motivation is…I love playing with the world and my body is my game piece. This is what works for me. A better understanding of motivation makes it easier to get for you.
Even Jack Lalanne got this wrong. Hating exercise but doing it anyway will not work. The new science of motivation points the way.
We still don’t get it. Human emotion. We think it can be packaged neatly and temporally controlled like in the sign above. We compartmentalize, rationalize, yet never realize that we cannot control emotion that way. We fight it instead of working to understand it and use it. One of humanity’s less attractive characteristics is our […]
We are our own worst enemy at times. Walking on all fours wasn’t good enough. We had to get up on two legs to get a higher view of available resources. It created a shift both in how we move (and use our brains to control movement) and how we process information we take in […]
Real motivation for real people. It turns out “middle priority” fitness goals allow for a realistic approach and less failure.
