Walking! Everybody’s doing it. Now let’s make sure you keep doing it with some clever, fun, and simple ways to keep it interesting.
Decide…to Kill Other Choices
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.
A Meditation on Motivation
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.
Social “Closening”
Words are strange things. Consequences are not always bad…they are simply “the effect, result, or outcome of something occurring earlier.” If you consistently exercise and eat healthy, the “consequence” is fitness. Distances are not always large…it is simply “the extent or amount of space between two things.” Distance can be very small or large. “Distance” […]
Even Jack Lalanne Got This Wrong
Even Jack Lalanne got this wrong. Hating exercise but doing it anyway will not work. The new science of motivation points the way.
The Exercise Potato
The Exercise Potato – A couch potato who exercises yet minimizes movement during the rest of the day.
We Still Don’t Get It
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 […]
How So-So Do You Want It?
Real motivation for real people. It turns out “middle priority” fitness goals allow for a realistic approach and less failure.
Behavioral Shutdown
Why bother? A fair question we ask when life has a pattern of seemingly beating us down when we try. New view of depression & what to do about it.
How to Make Hard Easy
When the circumstances create more intensity automatically, it feels like it takes less effort, but you end up working harder than you think you are in a workout!