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How The Scale Deceives You (And Other Measures of Success)
How the bathroom scale lies, and other ways to measure progress in your fitness program.
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5 Reasons You Should Take Dance Lessons (That Have Nothing To Do With Exercise)
Here are 5 reasons you should take dancing lessons that have nothing to do with exercise.
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How To Stop Letting Setbacks Set You Back
Stop letting setbacks hold you back from your goals. Instead, use them to propel you forward like a sling shot. Read to find out how.
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How To Leverage Food Tracking For Weight Loss
Follow these tips and best practices to maximize your weight loss using food tracking tools.
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The Ultimate Hangover Prevention Plan
Recently I was chatting with a gentleman who works in sales and we got on the topic of entertaining potential clients. It’s pretty common practice to take these prospects out for dinner and drinks, which can sometimes result in a night of heavy drinking for the sales representative. I also learned that each has their…
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What To Do When You’re Eating Healthy, Exercising, and Not Seeing Results
You’re making good food choices, exercising consistently, and still not seeing results. What gives?
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Lessons In Leadership And Success From Improv Comedy
How can improv comedy help you succeed? Read more to find out.
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The Unspoken Power of Encouragement
Yet, without any words exchanged, here we were. Two strangers; me motivating her to keep going, and her the same to me.
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Does It Pay To Be Pragmatic?
How do you decide what information is worth learning and what information can be discarded? At least once a week, usually toward the end of the week, I have this thing with clients where I will ask them if they’ve learned any interesting facts. These could be something they learned from reading articles, interesting tidbits…
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The Art of Telling A Good Story
[This article is a follow-up article to Theory of Mind: How To Understand Others Better. You can read that article by clicking here.] A couple weeks ago I was in bed ready to fall asleep, it was around 11:30pm. As I’m drifting off I hear a weird buzzing noise. My girlfriend hears it too. It…
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Theory of Mind: How To Get Better At Understanding Others
Theory of mind is the ability to understand that others have beliefs, thoughts, perspectives, and desires that are different than our own. It’s our ability to take the perspective of another person. This theory of mind develops in stages over the course of our childhood. (And continues to fine tune throughout most of our lives.)…
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Why Weight Loss Is Harder Than A College Degree
For many people school isn’t particularly fun. Sure, you get to visit with your friends or you might even have a class or two that pique your interest. This is usually outweighed by the required courses for your degree that bore you to death. (Does anyone actually like bio-chem? Or statistics? How about an entire…
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Two(ish) Tips To Overcome The Anxiety of Holiday Weight Gain
Follow these strategies to avoid holiday anxiety and weight gain.
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3 Tips To “Fall” Back In Love With Running
Use these strategies to keep your love for running strong even as the temperatures decline.
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