I am taking a course with Dr. Libby Weaver and she talks about one of the largest barriers she sees to people achieving what they want to achieve is a deep seated belief that they are not enough in some area. She refers to it as "not enoughness". Perhaps participating in triathlon is one way [...]
Category: Musings
Aiming high.
Aim high. Maybe you will achieve. If not, you may still end up farther along than if you aimed low to begin with.
Trials and tribulations of cycle class.
I arrived early, changed, and found an empty bicycle off to the side and near the back of the room. I set up my bike and started pedaling, waiting for the class to begin. It was the noon hour, and I was here only for the day on a single day’s pass to the gym. [...]
Familiarity Bias.
We generally do things that are familiar to us. How can we create more familiarity for our young people?
Slow down or speed up?
I heard a story recently about someone who would ride the same loop on his bike on a regular basis. As hard as he could; and it always took him 43 minutes. At some point he stopped wanting to ride the loop because just the thought of it brought the pain of all the hard [...]
Negative time sucks : social media?
While getting lost in entertainment mediums can be delightful, sometimes it makes us feel icky, and it's worth minimizing those times.
Staying up too late with a book or watching too many episodes of that tv show.
Enjoying the delicious feeling of being absorbed by entertainment medium...so long as other things aren't going by the wayside.
Stress : what is it doing to you?
Our bodies perceive stress as an attack even if our mind knows there is no real threat. Learn why that's unhealthy and learn 6 tips to counter chronic stress.
A thought on beauty.
I have recently started wearing makeup on a regular basis. I never learned much about makeup except for a couple of things from someone who gave me a facial in college. Thus, on the rare occasion I felt like I should wear makeup (usually just for court appearances) I would put makeup on in that [...]
Stress: the upside.
I went to a talk recently by Paula Davis Lack about resilience in the legal profession. Part of her talk focused on burnout (a common occurrence in the profession). She demonstrated stress and it's relationship to burnout using a bell curve. Picture boredom on one end and burnout on the other. Our productivity peaks in [...]
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