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Morning Musings: June 1

Jun 1, 2024

You usually wouldn’t be able to tell by my exercise routine when anything disruptive to my life is going on.  I think we all do this (make sure it happens) for whatever is important to us – our work, our […]

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Morning Musings: May 31

May 31, 2024

I generate a certain kind of protective bubble around my exercise when I go to great lengths to maintain the schedule.  Only I can figure this out about myself or do this for myself.   I am the one who creates […]

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Morning Musings: May 30

May 30, 2024

So, I have the “Just do 20 minutes rule”.  I am allowed to bail after 20 minutes if I haven’t caught a second wind, but I can’t decide to bail before I give it a shot.  For one thing, I […]

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Morning Musings: May 29

May 29, 2024

Act like you plan to do it.  I can move myself along any behavior continuum by acting like I really intend to do whatever – eat right, exercise, etc.  I can bring my workout clothes with me.  I can keep […]

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Morning Musings: May 28

May 28, 2024

An object in motion stays in motion.  An object at rest stays at rest.  This is a basic rule of physics – and exercise.   Want the energy to exercise?  Then, exercise.  One doesn’t arrive at the momentum to exercise from […]

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Morning Musings: May 27

May 27, 2024

Exercising on the morning of a really long workday is how I have the energy to get through the long workday.  This is especially true if I can’t get enough sleep the night before one of those 15-hour days (you […]

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Morning Musings: May 26

May 26, 2024

A friend of mine said that he finally stated attending AA meetings regularly (and is now celebrating 13 years of hard won sobriety) when a well-intentioned friend suggested to him that he schedule his life around his meetings rather than […]

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Morning Musings: May 24

May 24, 2024

I usually don’t schedule my exercise into a time that I absolutely know I will want to be relaxing – like at the end of my often long days.  When I get home, I know I like to be done […]

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Morning Musings: May 23

May 23, 2024

When I am particularly busy it helps me to get myself to exaercise if I can multitask It.   Some of my clients walk to do errands.  I often listen to work related conference calls that I download onto my ipod, […]

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Morning Musings: May 22

May 22, 2024

Often, the thing I put my exercise off for (and of course I never get the exercise in at all that day once I “delay” it) are things that I usually could do some other time.  They are things I […]

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