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The Value of Long-Term Thinking

Yesterday I discussed the power of focusing on the immediate next step. Knowing the long-term goal also carries significant power. Can you answer the following questions looking 5 years out: – Where will you be geographically?- What will you be doing on a daily...

A or B (Part 2)

The question I tasked you with pondering: What’s more important… A.  Planning for and thinking about the championship B.  Planning for and thinking about the next game There is no answer C in this scenario as that would make the question too simple and...

I Woke Up This Morning

I woke up this morning and so did you. The people today, Memorial Day, was created for did not.   Your job may suck sometimes and it still, likely, does not hold a candle to the stress and risks of those we honor today. I woke up with a sense of gratitude for those...

Macro/Micro…Long/Short

What’s more important… A.  Planning for and thinking about the championship B.  Planning for and thinking about the next game There is no answer C in this scenario as that would make the question too simple and prevent you from having to think....

“I get no respect.”

Comedian Rodney Dangerfield (RIP) is famous for the quote… “I get no respect.” If optimal health were a person I think they would feel the same way.   We often do not notice things until we don’t have them and many times by the time...

The Exercise Habit

Exercise is not recreation. Exercise is the purposeful movement of the body to increase fitness and health. Exercise is done to improve physiology. Recreation is done for mental health. Exercise often is not fun or enjoyable in the normal sense of the word (in fact...