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The $1.6 Billion Question
Reading Time: 4 minutes What would you change about your life if you won $1.6 billion?
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Will I Ever Enjoy Exercise?
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ve just begun my fitness program and I’m dying to know, will I ever actually enjoy exercise?
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Wiped Clean: Using COVID-19 To Kickstart Your Fitness Program
Reading Time: 4 minutes COVID-19 has changed our world almost overnight. The routine business of our lives has been disrupted. We long for the days of visiting friends for coffee, a nice dinner out with our significant other, and even mundane tasks like running errands or going to work. But this disruption can also be positive.
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5 Lessons From One of Life’s Hardest Teachers
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s virtually impossible for me to comprehend a more vicious and devastating blow than hearing the words “you have cancer.” It knocks the air out of your body faster than a Roy Jones Jr body shot. Trials in life come in varying speeds and intensities. While I can’t say I’ve experienced all of the life-altering…
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Herd Mentality: How Easily Can Your Friends Sabotage Your Fitness Plan?
Reading Time: 6 minutes How easily could your friends sabotage your fitness plan? Find out how to bulletproof yourself from bad influence.
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Stop Relying On Motivation, They Say.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Motivation gets a bad reputation for being temporary. Here’s the case for giving it another chance.
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3 Signs Your Weight Loss Is Temporary
Reading Time: 2 minutes You’ve worked hard and lost weight. How can you tell if you’re setup to gain it all back? Here are three signs your weight loss might be temporary.
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The 5 Gatekeepers Holding You Prisoner To Your Comfort Zone
Reading Time: 8 minutes Wondering why you have such a hard time achieving goals you set for yourself? Confused as to why change seems so difficult? This article examines the five gatekeepers you have to address in order to accomplish your goals.
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Pain, Adventure, & The Mundane: The Identity Shaping Power of Our Experiences
Reading Time: 8 minutes Research suggests that experiences, not material goods, are the key to happiness. They provide a more lasting form of happiness and, as we’ll see in this article, play a key role in shaping our identity.
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Does Choosing Salads Lead To Eating More Cookies?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Are your healthy decisions throughout the day, choosing a healthy option at lunch or making time for the gym, actually backfiring and causing you to be more unhealthy? Find out how you can combat the desire to reward yourself with the bad stuff.
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Lose The Booze: The Effects of Alcohol on Weight Loss
Reading Time: 5 minutes How much does alcohol negatively impact your ability to lose weight? The answer might surprise you.
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How To Stay Active While Working From Home
Reading Time: 3 minutes Working from home presents a unique set of challenges to those used to moving throughout the day. Follow this advice to keep yourself healthy and active throughout the workday.
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Meditation For The Non-Spiritual
Reading Time: 4 minutes Growing research suggests that meditation has great health benefits, but it gets a bad rap from those who don’t proclaim themselves to fit into the “spiritual” category. Here’s my advice to adopt a meditation practice even for the non-spiritual.
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Going Full Throttle: Shortcomings of Our Freeze Response To Danger
Reading Time: 5 minutes We have three natural reactions to danger: fight, flight, or the much less discussed freeze response. How can our instincts betray us, causing us to hit the brakes when throttling the gas is what will actually save us from impending danger?
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