Live Intentionally

Share “Conventional wisdom had long held that animal (and human) brains weren’t malleable: after a brief window early in life, the brain could no longer grow or renew itself. The supply of neurons — the brain cells that enable us to think — was believed to be fixed almost from birth. As the cells died [...]

Share This morning I did another short run of 5 miles, this time in 41 minutes, shaving 2 minutes off my Tuesday time.  I am getting close to a sentimental goal for my 5 mile time, which I’ll talk about when I reach it, hopefully next week.  Not much else to report on my training.  Looking [...]

Share If you’re drinking something, make sure you swallow first before reading this or you may end up wiping down your computer screen as I almost had to this morning…  Get ready for the newest health craze - the diet fork! “By eliminating over-indulgence, and creating a ‘chewing fitness’ dieters can now assist in metabolism by [...]

Share A couple of weeks ago in one of the forum discussions I initiated about The Non-Runner’s Marathon Trainer Book, someone commented, “Still trying to figure out why a non-runner would be training for a marathon…”  To which I replied: “Because it’s the quintessential personal challenge. It’s an extreme mental and physical challenge and I [...]

Share Saturday I crossed the 10-mile milestone with my long run.  One of the cool things about the training is that every week I set a new personal distance record.  I found the discussion about associative and disassociative mental techniques which were initiated after my last update to be very interesting.  I think I have a lot [...]

Share One of the principles I try to live my life by is to put God first, others second, and myself last.  (If you don’t believe in God, substitute “principles” for “God” and I think you can still go along with this.)  Last week, this principle was challenged as my wife, Jennifer, and I read [...]

Share This morning I had a great 5 mile run.  I was not trying to run faster but I ended up finishing in 43 minutes which is the best pace of any run I’ve had so far, short or long.  That’s very encouraging since on Tuesday I cut my run short because I was feeling [...]

Share I can’t say I’ve ever been a Korn fan, but I am a big fan of stories about transformed lives.  Today I read an article about Brian “Head” Welch, former member of the controversial metal band.  Despite all the fame and fortunate that came with being a rock star, Brian hit rock-bottom.  He was addicted to drugs and [...]

Share There’s an old saying that goes, “You don’t know a man unless you’ve walked a mile in his shoes.”  Yesterday I start a new venture that is certain to give me a new perspective – that of my clients.  As the CEO of a website services company, I see things from the perspective of [...]

Share Today I hit the first real dip in the training for my first marathon.  After doing the longest run of my training so far Saturday morning (9 miles) and then playing soccer for 2 hours Sunday evening, I took yesterday off and planned to increase my two short runs this week from 4.5 miles [...]