Let’s visit the topic of perspective, because I am becoming more and more sold on the fact that it’s one of the most important skill sets that I can invest my energy in. Yesterday, a friend of mine had a tough training day; she was well below her PR snatch weight, and 2 minutes behind her previous time in the benchmark workout at CFNE. I have been there so many times, too, and I remember…
My intention today, on my 43rd birthday, is to make use of my rapidly disappearing memory to try to dig up all of the moments, the people, the events, the good and the bad…that have delivered me to this place in my life. I know I have an endless number of things I need to work on, a tremendous amount of evolving left, and a lifetime left of trying to figure out what I don’t…
Ben and I were talking the other day about how we don’t think anyone dreams of being a dentist when they’re young…except for the little boy from the Rudolf cartoon that Ben does a spot onimpersonation of saying, “I don’t wanna’ be an elf, I wanna’ be a dentist!” This conversation led to me bringing up the idea that people probably don’t day dream about becoming a gynecologist, either. Ben quickly jumped in to correct me,…
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…
In an effort to avoid a life of hypocrisy, I’m going to put a personal story out there on the table that sheds more of a transparent light on me than I am comfortable with. But, those are the stories that we typically connect over, right? The ones when you admit that you and your partner are not, in fact, as happy every moment of every day as your Instagram feed makes it seem. Yes,…
Bode seemed super sad yesterday afternoon. When I asked him what was going on, he explained to me that his friend didn’t want to sit with him on the bus ride home from school. I’m not typically the type of parent that wants to go track down the kid and bribe him into making things right, or threaten to humiliate him in the cafeteria the next day. I know most of us wouldn’t actually do…
I had an experience at the end of our annual “Always Remember” workout at CFNE this morning. It’s a very special workout for our community as they’re a lot of symbolism in the rep scheme that reminds us of things like actual date of 9/11, the number of planes that went down that day, and the number of people who lost their lives. We do it every year, but only once a year. And, because…
