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You Say it’s Your Birthday
Another year around the sun. âïž Another year older, and another year fitter (ish?). A birthday is a lot like a new year, and luckily for me, mine is about halfway through the year so I can reassess where I…
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Gratitude Challenge
One challenge I received recently is to start a gratitude journal. I have always wanted to start a gratitude journal, but I get stuck. I have the rote 4 or 5 things I’m grateful for, and my journal always said…
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Staying Sore to be Better
The other day I was complaining about how sore I felt, and loudly wondering if I would always feel this way. My friend quipped, âremind me the name of your blog again?â TouchĂ© my friend. TouchĂ©. The comment got me…
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The Little Engine that Could Say Affirmations
Affirmations. According to Dictionary.com: The act of process of affirming something or being affirmed. In case you are wondering what exactly it means to “affirm” something (like…a friend of mine did đ) it is to “state as a fact; assert…
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Hyrox Recap Ft. Worth 2023
Stay hopeful, stay humble, stay HY. These are the words repeated at the start line of every HYROX race. Honestly, everyone should run at least one Hyrox race just to experience the emotions at the starting line. The combination of…
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Collect those raindrops
Life hits you at the strangest moments. As I was driving my daughter to school in the pouring rain, I looked up into a street light. The rain drops seemed to flow down to the earth in super slow-motion, and…
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If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it
We all have those days, weeks…months?…where we feel frustrated. Where we are making all the “right” moves toward our goals, but not exactly getting where we want to be. It’s complicated, and there is so much data to look at.…
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Keep it simple, even though it’s complicated
You know what to do. Honestly, we ALL know what to do. In an effort to keep it simple, here goes: eat right, exercise, sleep, keep stress to a minimum. It’s simple, really. Except then you start ruminating on all…
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Is Balance Truly the Best Way?
Food for thought: is it possible to live a balanced life? If it is, what does that truly mean? The other day I was perusing Instagram and came across this post on balance. It got me thinking. Drop the weight…
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How to survive the first of the year at the gym
Swarms of newbies spend the first two weeks of the year promising to hit the gym more often. Equipment seems sparse, weight racks are taken, and showing up at 4 am no longer guarantees your ability to cruise through your…
