“For every event in life,” the Dalai Lama said, “there are many different angles. When you look at the same event from a wider perspective, your sense of worry and anxiety reduces and you have greater joy.” A cold, rainy day can be viewed as miserable and depressing. Or, it can be a perfect opportunity to catch up on laundry, a great book next to a fire, or day to slow everything down and find…
Setting unrealistic expectations sets us up for disappointment. And, there are few things more unrealistic than expecting the people in our lives that are closest to us to be our everything. One person can’t, and shouldn’t, be the best listener we know, the wisest one that we go to first with all life challenges, the smartest one that we learn the most from, the best person for fashion and beauty advice, the one that makes…
Many of us are very good with being intentional about things like our workouts, our nutrition, and even our recovery. We go into a sprint interval workout knowing exactly, down to the second, where we want our splits to be. We start our day knowing exactly how many grams of macronutrients we will eat by bedtime. And, we go to sleep at a predetermined time because we know that our watch will give us feedback…
Many of us have heard Coach Glassman talk about the Sickness-Wellness-Fitness Continuum. We know that as we plot our health markers on the continuum, we move further from sickness and closer to fitness as our markers improve. As we improve our body fat, 1RM DL, 1 mile time, bone density, and resting heart rate, we increase the buffer between our current state of health, and the more dangerous place of sickness. In other words, the…
It is because of our struggles that we are able to be the stronger versions of ourselves that we are today, not despite them. We have all seen the many faces of struggle, right? Past breakups with boy/girlfriends and full blown divorces. The death of parents, siblings, children, unborn babies, friends, and pets. Mental illness covering everything from depression to eating disorders to distorted body image. We’ve lost jobs, income, been robbed…both physically and emotionally. We’ve been…
In the same way that our cell phone is a distraction for us while driving a car, people can be distractions that keep us from attaining the things that we want out of life. Whether we’re trying to get a promotion at work, get rid of the stress that we feel throughout the day, or hitting a PR on a lift or workout, it’s important that we identify distractions in our lives and how to…
I don’t know about you, but Mondays for me are the most overwhelming day of the week for me. I feel like I’m getting shot out of a God damn canon at 5:25 am, and things don’t slow down until around 9:15 pm. In an effort to start my day right, I use my morning meditation as a time to remind myself of how to approach the whole thing. I stay on course and remember…
One of the many things I’ve taken away from my newfound meditation practice is this: slow everything down. Drive slower. React slower. Listen to slower music. Speak slower. Take more time to respond when asked a question. Take the route that may be longer, but brings you less stress. Don’t rush food prep. Don’t think ahead so much that you don’t notice what’s actually going on right in front of you. Walk around your day slower,…
I suspect that I’m not alone in occasionally being guilty of having a warped approach to making healthy food choices. Take snacking, for example. Just yesterday, I was on the prowl for something and saw a container of berries in the fridge. I thought about it, then decided that I had already had sweet potatoes with my eggs for breakfast, so I should ease up on my carbohydrate intake a little. No less than 3…
The truth is, stress isn’t just a necessary evil but rather something that we actually use as a positive stimulus. We go to the gym so we can put our bodies under stress to make them stronger and fitter. We fill our calendars with activities to keep ourselves busy, social, and intellectually challenged. And, if anyone out thinks that having kids will bring peace, calm, and quiet into their lives is either (a) lying, or…