“You have to assemble your life yourself – action by action. And be satisfied if each one achieves it’s goal, as far as it can.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations I wrote an entire blog post alternating between English and French to practice my French. But I relied heavily on Google Translate to accomplish the task,…
If there’s any benefit to the current situation, it’s a spotlight shining on my home exercise equipment, most notably my Concept II Rowing Ergometer. There are no excuses at the moment for not using it, or the weights or treadmill, or for simply going for a walk at least once a day. I’m starting another…
“You can’t be normal and expect abnormal results.” – Naval Ravikant There’s nothing wrong with normal; the pursuit of normal usually offers you an average, lovely life. But if you want to be ultra-wealthy or a washboard abs model or win the Olympics or be an astronaut or a Nobel Peace Prize winner, well, be…
The math adds up, mostly. When you walk 4.25 miles in one direction on a rail trail, you should get the same number coming back in the other direction. Except that I took a couple of detours on the walk north, exploring side paths that I’ve previously marched right by. This wasn’t a timed walk,…
A little more than a year into my focus on daily habits, the overall the results are encouraging. James Clear’s Atomic Habits poured gasoline on my focus on doing things that matter every day, beginning with small things like reading more, writing every day and exercise. It started with changing the routine when I got…
Last night I glanced at my watch and recognized that the walk streak was in peril. I did the math, adding the drive times ahead of me, my son’s college basketball game I planned to watch, and the number of steps I had to do to get there. I pulled into the parking lot of…
“In most of our decisions, we are not betting against another person. Rather, we are betting against all the future versions of ourselves that we are not choosing.” – Annie Duke, Thinking In Bets As we enter the first full work week of the New Year, I’m focused on this concept of Second Order Thinking…
There’s nothing like a long walk to sort things out and help you forget about the madness in the world. Last week New Hampshire received a few inches of heavy, wet snow. Once walked upon, slushy snow becomes a clutter of footprints. Let it freeze and that snow becomes a crunchy, treacherous mine field. And…
2019 was a year of change for all of us, as every year is, but it felt more profound this year. That has everything to do with writing about it. I know people who made changes on a massive scale, and others minor, but change happens whether we choose it or not. In the spirit…
The funny thing about walking 10,000 steps every day is that I don’t lose weight doing it. 10K is a minimum recommendation after all. But I’m healthier for having done it. At the very least I’m not eating or drinking when I walk, so those calories float away. But walking 10-12K isn’t going to burn…
