What My Game Boy Taught Me

The idea of starting over again can be unnerving and downright exacerbating it. "You mean I gotta do this again??" For me, I think it is this way for a few reasons: 1. Starting over again carries an association with failure. I've done this before. I didn't succeed the first time. So now here we …

You’ve Been Here Before

Lived experiences serve as monuments to life conquered. So I am on an exercise program as part of a fitness challenge. It is a program I have done before, and it yielded great results. As I shared in a recent blog, I feel like I am back to square one on the motivation track, and, …

The Continual Work of Mindset Adjustment

I'm back. And let me clarify: by saying "I'm back", I am not saying I suddenly feel a push to do everything in health with perfection (my carb-loving, sweet tooth-having is far from doing anything with perfection).  When I say that "I'm back", I am referring to a mindset. A few years ago, I made …

How are You Dealing with COVID-19? Uncomfortable Lessons with Unmerited Worth

How are you managing this pandemic? It is hard to imagine such a question would become almost as common as "How is the weather?"  However in this day and time, these words have served almost as a cursory greeting.  And are response to it has been just about as cursory. Oh, it is crazy times.  …