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National Gratitude Month and its Feel-Good Power
Feel-good challenge: Show and express gratitude to yourself and at least one other person every day for 30 days and share it! It’s one of the easiest and most powerful feel-good things you can do for yourself and others. Think about it – how good does it make you...
Feel Better Now: Take Five
Stressed Out? Wondering how you will ever feel good again? Take Five. Shut the door to your office or head out for some fresh air and find a place to sit down. Take three deep breaths. Breathe in through your nose as your stomach expands and then out through your...
Start Your Day Right: 5-Minute Feel-Good Fix
Looking for a quick feel-good fix to jump start your day? First thing in the morning, find a quiet place to sit down for five minutes. Start by taking three deep breaths, breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth. Make each breath go a little deeper....
Your Right to Choose to Feel Good
Tired of not feeling good? We all get what we believe. Every day you have the right to choose how you want to feel and then consciously direct your attention that way. It’s called the law of attraction. If you believe you are worthy of happiness, happiness will come...
Dealing with Uncertainty: Set a Goal
Struggling with staying positive amidst pandemic recovery uncertainty? You are not alone. While misery may love company, it doesn’t have to be this way. Our minds can be a terrible influence when we allow them to run away with things we do not know. This includes...
Making the Feel-Good Shift: Focus on the Feeling First
Bombarded by so many “do this” messages to feeling good and wondering what to do? Before doing or buying, go within. Think about what brings you joy. What makes you happy. Focus on the feeling vs. the “thing.” Experiences that make your heart sing vs. the things that...
Feeling Good in 5 minutes or Less
Struggling with feeling good? Do you think it entails a lot of money, therapy, and workouts? How about five minutes? Feeling good is about you. Not about others. It’s the thing that helps you avoid self-medicating. Following are seven feel-good tips, one for each day...
Doing What You Love, Loving What You Do
When you think about things you love, what comes to mind? Family? Work? Friends? Pets? Kids? Certain types of foods? Vacation spots? A good book? A certain sport? Do you consciously think about things you love on a daily basis? Thinking about what you love and even...
Detours in the Right Direction
When life takes a turn in the wrong direction, what do you do? Does it wreck your mood or your day? It’s not that there aren’t forks in the road or detours -- it’s how we perceive and respond to these that determines whether we start to give up and give in to whatever...
Letting Go
A big part of what holds us back is our inability to let go. Letting go of the anger, resentment, judgement of others, ourselves, our spouse, our kids, our boss, or your friend who made some comment that really set you off. While we think it’s hard not to let people...
Feeling Good: Child’s Play
Children are all about feeling good. And if they don’t feel good, boy do you know it. So, what happens when you get older, and you feel like you must behave when you don’t feel good? You become the angry or frustrated parent, partner, friend and person. So now I hear...
Feeling Good: The Power of Choice
What if I said you could make a radical shift in your life to feel better and all it will cost you is the cost of a book? It’s pretty simple – and cost effective – as long as you’re willing to make the choice and shift how you approach your day by thinking and...
Workplace Motivation
COVID has brought a lot of new-found virtual workplace opportunities. This by consequence, has opened many doors for people to have more work/life flexibility. But like any change, it comes with a whole new set of challenges, including self-motivation and staying...
Baby it’s Hot Outside! Training and Survival Tips for hot summer days…
Having lived, trained and coached in Florida for 18 years, the heat and humidity can take its toll. And not just Florida. Symptoms such as low energy, soreness and yes, stiffness from dehydration and electrolyte imbalances can wreak havoc on your training, but only if...
Feel-Good You: Self-Care
There is no more important person than you. Sound selfish? Think about when you make yourself a priority and take care of yourself, including a conscious effort to present yourself and shine your light in your best possible way, do you feel better? Is there more skip...
Random Acts of Kindness
Memorial Day and honoring those who have served provide poignant reminders about the power of acts of kindness – both to those in need and/or doing a good deed. Want to feel better? Do a random act (or two) of kindness. It starts with being mindful. Looking around...
Vision your way to a Feel-Good You
Elite athletes swear by it. So do many of the world’s most successful businesspeople. It’s called visioning: The ability to think or plan the future with imagination and wisdom. So, what does visioning have to do with feeling good? It’s about seeing yourself, your...
Staying Positive Amidst Uncertainty – Just Ask
Struggling with staying positive amidst pandemic recovery uncertainty? You are not alone. While misery may love company, it doesn’t have to be this way. Our minds can be a terrible influence when we allow them to run away with things we do not know. This includes...
National Gratitude Week – Gratitude for the things we take for granted
Today, pick at least one thing you take for granted and express gratitude for it being part of your life. What or who is it? I can hear it now…Who has time for this? We all do. It’s just a matter of shifting our thoughts from ourselves to the outside world. How about...
Feel Good Mindset: Gratitude Week
One of the easiest and most powerful feel-good things you can do is express gratitude. For one week, start a daily gratitude routine and see what happens. If you’re wondering what the big deal is about gratitude, to start, it’s important enough to have two annual...
Savoring Spring the One Pan Wonder Way – Simple and delicious ways to cook and enjoy the season’s fresh produce
Ahh, spring. The arrival of warmer temps and garden planting and blooming breaths, well, new hope into the air. There is just something magical about the arrival of green grass, leaves on the trees and fresh from the garden fruits and vegetables that brighten up...
How to Make Feeling Good Your Priority – Author Insights
What if I said you could make a radical shift in your life to feel better and all it will cost you is the cost of a book? It’s really pretty simple – and cost effective – as long as you’re willing to make the choice and shift how you approach your day by thinking and...
Changing Weather & Seasons: Focus On What You Can Do
If you live in a four season state, the changing of seasons can present you with a number of weather challenges, including variable snow, rain, trail and road conditions. And you start worrying – and stressing -- about losing your fitness or just...
Why Feeling Good Should Be Your Priority.
Feeling like you could use a pick me up to feel better or wondering how you can shift to a feel good state every day? Happy to announce the release of my book, "How to Make Feeling Good Your Priority: A Marathoner's Journey to a Feel-Good State." In it you will find...
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