Category: Life Musings
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Practice
Practice and all is coming ~Pattabhi Jois Learning is messy! You gain new knowledge, you get excited to implement that knowledge, you try out that new knowledge, and…you fall…flat.on.your.face! What happens when you fall? I fluctuate between beating myself up and ignoring that it happened. Honesty. It can be ugly, but there you go. That’s…
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Public Speaking
I had a strange experience on Sunday evening. I went to an event and the audience was asked to participate by sharing what we hoped to get out of the evening. The group seemed pretty quiet, but a few brave people shared. The facilitator of the event wanted a little more. The energy of the…
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Simply Life.Food.Fitness.
I started Simply Life.Food.Fitness. as a blog back in 2012. As a way of introduction, here is the first post from that site – I will, eventually, migrate all the posts over. Thank you for stopping by! This started out as a blog, intended to be about simply living life; enjoying good, healthy food; and achieving fitness…
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How to Play Big in Your Life
Do you play small? I certainly do. What is that!? Why is that? Doesn’t that seem counter-intuitive? And yet, we all seem to have this same disposition/fear/shared consciousness. This is a cliché question, but, for real: What would you do if you knew you wouldn’t fail? Put differently: What would you do if you didn’t limit…
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Time Management: The whirling hamster wheel
Your alarm goes off, you hit snooze. Your alarm goes off, you hit snooze. Your alarm REALLY goes off. It’s time to drag yourself out of bed…and, you’re off! Get out the door, get coffee, get to work, work, workout, eat, tv, bed. Repeat. Does that, or something like that, remind you of someone? It’s…
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How to Handle Change
As humans, we’re really good when we’re in control, but what happens if something changes that’s out of your control, or what happens when you have to make a decision with your best knowledge in that moment without any time to really think about it? There’s a yoga sutra that pulled itself into my consciousness…
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The Start of a New Year
Happy 2017! Did you start 2017 how you wanted to? I had a slow morning. It was lovely, but slow, and not 100% what I was planning for the start of a new year. I shared these thoughts with my yoga class today: It’s ok if you didn’t start your 2017 exactly the way you…
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