Posts Tagged ‘Parenting’
Life is suffering, pain is optional
That’s a pretty big title. It’s actually an old Buddhist saying that has always resonated with me. It’s akin to when Lincoln said he believed that “most people are about as happy as they want to be.” The gist is the same. My mom, who I often quote because of her kitchen table wisdom, used…
Read MoreFitness for Americans: Fitness from the neck up, or getting your head fit: (part 3 of 3)
When I talk about “head fit” I’m not talking about shopping for hats. There is so much that happens to our bodies when our head is not healthy. It sounds like I am constantly insulting Americans but the fact is we have many attributes that open us up to ridicule. This time I will say…
Read MoreFitness for Americans: If it hurts, you’re doing it wrong (part 2 of 3)
Last time we discussed how getting healthy and fit was so overwhelming and scary. So much so that it becomes a deterrent to itself. The landscape of confusing consumerism that bangs us over the head with new plans and programs that are “guaranteed” has us so confused that it’s easier to just do nothing. Pass…
Read MoreFitness for Americans: (part 1 of 3)
The shadowy world of the exercise industry is a dark and scary place. For a person seeking to raise their level of fitness, lose weight, get healthy or just feel better we have created this frightening and confusing landscape to scare them out of doing what they set out to do. We tell them of…
Read MoreIs he any less of an athlete?
Alex was a Formula 1 racer. Formula 1 cars are the fastest and most dangerous cars to race and often exceed 220 miles per hour (compared with Nascar’s average speed of 180 mph) and Alex was one of the best the sport has ever seen. In 2001 Alex Zanardi’s car was hit by another car as…
Read MoreThis year’s graduation speech
Last year I wrote a post that I intended to be my speech if ever I was asked to give a commencement speech by a school. (Hey Harvard, I’m still waiting for that honorary degree). Any way, I got some good feedback from it, no one posts comments here but they tell me what they…
Read MoreWhy I am the proudest man in town
It was this last Sunday and I was struck speechless, a rare occasion for me. It was our team banquet and after dinner the girls had a few presentations to make. They honored each other with gag gifts, I was even given the best hair award (nice!). They honored their parents for their support and they honored our one…
Read MoreEliminate the excuses, I’ve tried them all, they’re wrong.
“I just don’t have the time” “I would but I get my workout at work” “Since I don’t have the time to do it every day, I might as well not even start” “That program was too intense”, “I get too sore” “Healthy? I’m healthy enough.” I’ve heard them all, in fact I’ve said them all at some…
Read MoreThe day I met Picasso, a true story.
This is a long post, but I realized that I never wrote about it before. I swear that it’s true, though the quotes may be fudged a bit. We were in San Jose California. Me, my co-coach Matt and a friend named Jim who, at the time, was going to open his own gym. We…
Read MoreDreaming is not a waste of time
I remember the cartoon we had on our refrigerator when I was a kid. It was of two archaeologists with pith helmets and all looking at a little nub sticking out of the ground in a desert scene. The one archaeologist walking away says over his shoulder to the other “yeah, it’s probably nuthin.” But in a cut away…
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