Ever seem like your life has just hit a dead-end?  You know what I mean.  When no matter how hard you try, things just don’t seem to go your way and every time you “roll with the punches” and begin to get back up on your feet there seems to be another punch coming right at you. How do you …

I got word of two deaths this weekend.  One was a Great-Grandmother that had lived a long and full life and the other was a young father just starting to live his.  One lost a long battle with cancer, the other died in a hunting accident. In both cases, the message that was brought home to me is that no …

Is it just me or has anyone else who’s been watching the Olympics been hit with this sudden urge to hit the gym and workout all day?  Doesn’t watching all these athletes who are the best in the world at what they do just make you even more conscious of that extra flab around your midsection? Add to the mix …

I recently read an interesting post by Tom Hoobyar, a successful Silicon Valley CEO and Success Coach, called “Tom’s Twelve Laws of Life.”  They’re well worth reading and thinking about. One of Tom’s 12 Laws that stuck a chord with me was Number 4:  You make your habits, and then your habits make you.  How true, especially when it comes …

OK, we’ve all done it. We’ve all set goals to improve our health, exercise more, or lose weight. Sure, we start out with a lot of enthusiasm but after a couple of weeks, what happens? We’re usually right back where we started. At this point, we usually feel like a failure and tell ourselves that since we can’t lose the …

Lot’s of people tell me that they’ve been “working out” like crazy but still can’t seem to lose any weight. When I ask what kind of work out they’re doing, they almost always say they’ve been lifting weights or working on the weight machines at the gym. My advice to them usually takes them by surprise. Do you really want …