Mastering Your Mind: Embrace the Journey
Point to Ponder: Do you question if you have everything you need for your lifelong journey? This time of year is magical! Temperatures...
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- Sep 17
- 3 min
Mastering Your Mind: The Study of Psychoneuroimmunology and How Fear Negatively Impacts Your Health
Point to Ponder: When experiencing fear, what do you do? Have you ever heard of psychoneuroimmunology? I can barely say it so let’s just...
- Sep 13
- 3 min
Becoming the Master of Your Mind: How Mindset Impacts Aging & Your Health
Point to Ponder: What's your outlook on age and aging? There's no doubt that seventy is the new fifty, sixty is the new forty, and fifty...
- Sep 3
- 3 min
Becoming the Master of Your Mind: The Placebo Effect & Your Expectations
Point to Ponder: Do you focus on the best case scenario or worst case scenario? A few months back, after listening to a podcast and...
- Aug 23
- 2 min
Who Can You Encourage?
A few months back while staying at a friend's house I noticed a bulletin board covered with special notes. Because the notes weren't mine...
- Jun 14
- 3 min
How to Build Your Heat Tolerance During the Summer Months
With the hot summer months upon us, let’s talk about how we can best beat the heat and continue to outdoor exercise during the sometimes...
- May 23
- 3 min
How Our Phone Habits Are Affecting Our Sleep & What We Can Do About It
"Many measures of adolescent mental health began to deteriorate sometime around 2009. It is true of the number of U.S. high-school...
- May 17
- 2 min
Get More out of Your Day by Removing These Annoying Disruptions
"The people sitting around you in the Googleplex control more than 50% of all the notifications on all the phones in the whole world. We...
- May 9
- 3 min
Life Doesn't Come with a Manual, It Comes with a Mom
Sometimes feel as though Mother Nature provides the how-to manual for life. From practicing patience, enduring difficult times,...
- Apr 30
- 4 min
If We Want to do Things Well, We Have to be Able to Focus
Somewhere along the way, and since the invention of the Smartphone, we’ve become brainwashed to think we must be available 24/7 and...
- Apr 23
- 3 min
I Wanted to Crush it with a Baseball Bat and Run Over it with my Car
Did you know the average American touches his/her phone 2,617 times per 24 hours? But first (and along those lines), last fall I began...
- Apr 5
- 2 min
Look All Around! Strength is on Display
Gardening has become my hobby. I do not have a green thumb, as plenty of what I plant dies, but I get extreme joy in planting something...
- Mar 28
- 2 min
A Handful of Weeds or Handpicked Spring Bouquet?
"Fill your minds with beauty and truth. Meditate on whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,...
- Mar 22
- 1 min
The Season of Surprise
"Spring is nature's way of saying 'Let's party!'" - Robin Williams I don't think I've ever heard anyone say they don't like spring or...
- Mar 22
- 1 min
An Affirmation on Living Bold
Austin Class Leader, Amy Younkman, shared a powerful affirmation on boldness. Given our theme since the beginning of the year (and...
- Mar 7
- 1 min
"Better" Produces More Best Life Moments
The goal of "living your best life" is a tall order. We all know life comes with an ongoing combination of highs and lows, making it...
- Mar 1
- 3 min
Renounce Comfort as the Ultimate Value of Life
Ouch! That is a jolting title isn't it? "Renounce Comfort as the Ultimate Value of Life" is a sentence out of a book I'm reading called...
- Feb 22
- 2 min
Kelly Clarkson, Chris Stapleton & the Boldness Regret
A few months back I listened to an interview with Kelly Clarkson. It was before Christmas and she discussed her newest Christmas duet...
- Feb 14
- 2 min
The Link Between Broken Heart Syndrome and Connection Regret
Last week, after writing about the Power of Regret, I received a shocking amount of feedback. Honestly, I was blown away by the...
- Feb 7
- 2 min
Got Regret? Be Bold, Use it as a Teacher and Live Better
Last week I listened to a fascinating podcast on a book by Daniel Pink titled "The Power of Regret. How Looking Backward Moves You...