I love my punching bag and gloves. I have been known to say that boxing is my new favorite thing, but one of the students in our program, Patrick Wilson, tells me that it isn't really "boxing" unless I am hitting and being hit...everything else is just "working the bag". Well then, I guess I [...]
Tag: best body ever
P90X – what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!
Satan lives...and he lives in the form of Tony Horton and his P90X workout series. My brother gave me the P90X set when I visited him in California at the end of July in support of my Best Body Ever goal. I let the DVDs sit for quite awhile and then I watched one here [...]
A room with a view – worth the price of admission?
As those folks who read my blog know, I have been working on my year two goal in the new forty (the best body ever) for about a month now. As part of my new goal I have been exercising a lot more - typically in my bedroom (although there are very few places in [...]
In the eye of the beholder…
Perceptions are funny things, especially when they are of ourselves. The way we perceive ourselves to be (self-image), the way we believe we are seen in the world (others image of us) and the way we are actually perceived by others are complicated paradigms that we universally experience as human beings. I remain fascinated by [...]
Lessons learned whilst fishing…
Four weeks ago my friend Amy, in a classic "look over there" move, strongly encouraged me to check out a website called Plenty of Fish. Amy did this to distract my attention from someone in my life who was causing me strife - a person who she thought didn't deserve the time of day. Well, [...]
Year two of the new forty starts here…
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.” ~ Robert Frost A year ago I entered the new forty with a promise to self - write every day for me. That promise was the genesis of this blog. A year and over 217,000 blog views later, one could [...]
Moving toward belly button bling…
Something somewhat amazing has happened to me in the new forty...I have seen my sense of limitations slowly evaporate. I am not really sure why that is. I wonder if it is the recognition that at least half of one's life has likely passed or if it is a heightened sense-of-self...perhaps it is a little [...]
THE NEW FORTY 