Give Your Wishbone a Backbone
On St. Patrick's Day each year many people tend to look for good luck through using a four-leaf clover. The person who carries horseshoe or rabbit's foot is certain to be lucky through their life. Though, the horse the threw the shoe or the rabbit that lost it's foot...
3 Keys to Focusing on What Really Matters to YOU!
I remember when I was young and my father wanted me to do what he thought I should do in life. I think most people have been down this same road. Others telling us what we should be doing and not what we really want to do. Sure, what we do should enable us to sustain...
Fitness is Everywhere: 5 Keys to Having a Movement Lifestyle
I believe that 2015 will be the age of using the outdoor environment as the gym. No longer are we restricted to a single location or stuck on indoor fitness equipment. For decades we've left the great outdoors and ventured back inside for exercise. What the heck...
Get Into Total Fitness by Expanding Your Realm
I recall the old saying, "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." In the health and fitness realm it is so true. When I was bodybuilding, all I saw were exercises that helped me to get bigger. When was a power-lifter, all I focused on was to get...
Centered, Awareness, Flow: The 3 Keys For Health, Happiness and Success
Speed! That is the name of game in today's world and those that aren't fast lose, right? Wrong. Sure, in business it's important for certain processes to be fast. Yet, when humans are running the show and are hurrying up, there are a number of errors being made. We...
Simplifying Your Fitness to Get and Stay Fit…
For years I've seen a number of gadgets, programs and so forth that has confused me as well as others. Every time I hear of a "new" program, it really makes me mad. I'm not saying that they are good or bad. It's just that many will believe that the newness is the only...
5 Keys to Developing a Lightning Fast Mind…
Lately I've been kinda sluggish in my mindset and I harken back to a time when it was at it's highest peak. Those days it was out of necessity for survival purposes. I guess living in more comfortable settings has been detrimental in many ways. As I think back to...
Self-Defense and Martial Arts Begins With a Good Base of Fitness
Back in the 1960's I bought a self-defense course from Joe Weider, the trainer of champions in bodybuilding. At that time he published Muscle Builder magazine (which later became Muscle and Fitness). Though, in the early 60's, he advertised his bodybuilding and...
5 Life Lessons That Your Dog Can Teach You
For thousands of years, dogs have been a loyal companion to man. I know that every single dog I've had in life have been special. Yet, I had not learned from their simple wisdom the meaning of life as I should have. It's only been in the last few years that I have...
Self-Mastery is the Key to Mastering Life
"One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield." ~Buddha When I was first studying the martial arts, it was all about mastering each technique and form. I would work day after day with the simplest of...