New Year’s Resolutions Blog

…and injury. Yep, less than two weeks out from the marathon, I have strained my hamstring something awful. It’s the worst thing that’s happened to me thus far, and of course it had to happen close to the end. Hopefully it won’t be so bad, though–I have done the longest runs I’m supposed to do, and all the time until the marathon (which is only TWELVE DAYS away! yipes!) is mostly tapering. I’m scheduled for 3-5 mile runs today, tomorrow, and Thursday, but I hope I can just skip them and start up again on Friday without too much trouble. I don’t think it will be a huge setback provided it heals up in a few days. Better rest than test, I always say… or rather, my friend Brad says to me. And since he’s more experienced at running than I am, I believe him. And though the injury comes at a really bad time in relation to the marathon, it comes at a GREAT time in relation to DVD releases… Continue reading

So it’s already March and you’re realizing you didn’t keep up with your New Year’s resolution for even two weeks. Maybe your diet plan was undercut by too much stress and too little time, or your resolution to exercise daily was compromised when you pulled a muscle (which still hasn’t healed) by trying to do an hour on the StairMaster on January 1st. Your desire to organize faded away when you realized you couldn’t even find the things you’d wanted to organize. You’re at a bit of a loss, to say the least! Continue reading

All I can say about this group of guys who ran across the Sahara desert is wow. WOW. I mean, four thousand miles — in some of the worst weather conditions you can imagine! It makes a regular ol’ marathon in a regular ol’ US City look like nothing! Continue reading

So many people make resolutions, both in their personal lives and in their business lives, and fail to carry through on them. Why is that? We know what we want to do. We know what is good for us. We know what we should do. So then, why do so many resolutions fail?

A lot of the articles I’ve seen and the help pages I’ve visited seem to put a lot of focus on why we should change. Some of the help out there seemed to me to be mind control techiniques. I don’t think that someone reinforcing for me why I should stop smoking, get more exercise or improve my work situation would work for me. Why? Because I do already know all of those things, so I needed to think why, then, was it so hard to actually accomplish my goal?

I came across a really interesting article by David Maister, business author, speaker and consultant. It helped to give me a different perspective on why it is so hard to stick to your goal. In my case, my goal is to quit smoking. This article applies to all goals, be it about your personal goals or your business goals. I found it interesting and hope you do also.

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Blagh. So I think I’m getting sick. Just one of those things where I feel achy all over. I usually attribute it to soreness from running, but I didn’t run today (taking an early rest day… hopefully I’ll make up for it later!), so that can’t be it. I’m going to drink some orange juice, take some vitamins, and get some rest. Usually it’s better for me to try to get sickness before it starts than to try and suck it up and get through it. I may not be too interesting for the next few days (that assumes I’m normally interesting, though, which is debatable!). Hope things are going better for everyone else!

Betcha can guess #1…

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Do you know the number one reason New Year’s resolutions fail? No? Hmm, well, maybe I’ll tell you later… Okay, no, I’ll suck it up and write about it now. The primary reason resolutions fail is, not surprisingly, procrastination. Doing anything later is always easier than doing it now. It’s really easy to adopt the mindset that you have all year to accomplish your goals, and that getting a slow start (or no start) in January won’t affect your progress too much. That’s true–but only if you don’t want to make any progress at all, and we’re all here because we do want to make progress, right? Read on for the rest of the reasons why New Year’s resolutions fail… Continue reading