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Morning Musings: May 21

May 21, 2024

This thing that I have to do first will still get done – a half and hour later.  Case in point:  I remember a client who insisted that she couldn’t exercise over the weekend because she had to paint her […]

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Morning Musings: May 20

May 20, 2024

If I put exercise off, I will undoubtedly find a way to convince myself that I have other things that are way more critical and must take priority – when the truth is I have managed to get most everything […]

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Morning Musings: May 19

May 19, 2024

I can make exercise something I associate with great feelings like pride, relief, self-respect, youthfulness, or something I associate with dread and guilt – all by when I schedule it.  I can spend the day glorying in how proud of […]

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Morning Musings: May 18

May 18, 2024

Too tired is probably one of the most common reasons for not exercising in general, and certainly in the morning.  What one of my clients says to herself to talk herself into getting up in the morning to exercise is […]

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Morning Musings: May 17

May 17, 2024

The first 10 minutes is always murder – for everyone.  My legs feel like lead and I always think I must be coming down with something.  I’ve learned not to take it so seriously.  “Yeah, this is how I always […]

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Morning Musings: May 16

May 16, 2024

There is an expression they use in 12 Step Programs when encouraging someone to own the consequences of indulging before they actually do it.  They say, “Think it through”.  They mean, of course, to think through to the predictable negative […]

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Morning Musings: May 15

May 15, 2024

In fact, too tired, too stressed and too busy just can’t count.  When would at least one of these things not be true?  Interesting to note, but not any more relevant than those circumstances would be to my decision to […]

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Morning Musings: May 14

May 14, 2024

I would weigh about 30 lbs. more than I do now eating what I eat now if I didn’t exercise.  I do an average of about 300 exercise calories a day.  Do the math.  300 X 365 days, divided by […]

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Morning Musings: May 13

May 13, 2024

Often, if I will just do a token something in the morning, like half my walk or the first segment of an exercise DVD, it is just enough to get me to do some additional little piece later.   So by […]

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Morning Musings: May 12

May 12, 2024

I have found that working out on Mondays makes a difference for the whole rest of the week.  It is like I either got on the exercise track or the couch potato track for the week.  So a decision about […]

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