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I Guess You Had to Be There

Are you sitting down? Because I have a shocker for you: sometimes, according to my wife, I can be exasperating.

The main thing is, I get on these health bandwagons, impulsively turn our world upside down, and then totally forget about it.

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Balancing Future Goals with Present Attention

Today Mergoddess Sarah Bofinger and I talk about balancing big future goals – which can be motivating as hell, but also scary and possibly intimidating and overwhelming – with the simple, repetitive daily actions that may eventually get us there.

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Your Role Models Are Not Superheroes

When we look to public figures as role models for the changes we aspire to make, we’re in danger of assigning them “Superhero” status.

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How to Accelerate Your Progress: Step on DGAS

Today is January 2, 2020. If you’re a resolutions kind of person, today is the second day to do the thing you’ve decided to do.

Are you still motivated? I certainly hope so!

What about tomorrow? Will you be motivated then as well? Fingers crossed…

And the day after tomorrow?

And the day after that?

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New Year’s Resolutions, Pursuit Angles, and the Forward Edge of Your Capacity

Josh and I uncoddle our Sick to Fit readers, listeners, and FB group members in today’s New Years video.

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Do I have to be happy-happy to change?

Joy. Misery. Bad choices. Change. Surrender. Korean War defectors.

Something for everyone in this end-of-year convo with Mergoddess Sarah Bofinger.

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Tidings of Comfort or Joy

One day my grandfather punched someone in the face over some disagreement. The recipient of the blow, wounded more in pride than body, wobbled to a seat on the curb and began yelling, “Iodine! Police! Iodine! Police!”

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360 Degrees of Pain

I can teach you how to ride a unicycle.

I tell you this not to brag, but to – aw, hell, who am I kidding? I tell you this to brag.

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When Your Only Tool is a Sledgehammer

For some reason, the most popular TV channel at my gym is HGTV.

Maybe I’m still 8 years old inside, but I can’t think of anything more boring than watching other people fix up their houses. Give me cartoons. Give me golf. Give me bowling, for godsakes, but please don’t let me pound out mile after mile while watching young couples practically orgasm over their new open floor plan.

What is it with the open floor plan anyway?

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Flutter Kick to Nowhere

My wife and I joined a gym last month, and since we paid in advance, and since I get 5 points every time I check in, I’ve been going a lot to get my money’s worth.

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