The Get Lively® with Jan podcast

I’d NEVER considered myself an athlete until my friend referred to me as one. “I’m not an athlete!” I proclaimed. She looked at me and said: You just ran a…

Wow, five years of the podcast, huh?  That flew by! As I pondered how to celebrate this anniversary episode, I decided that I wanted it to be more than a…

There’s so many reasons why we resist doing things… I’ve talked about a million of them on this show, but this is one reason I haven’t really mentioned. Drum roll…

I finished a book this past week and as usual, there were ideas in it that I wanted to share.  You know that I do that quite a bit around…

Oh friends, if we could only break this pattern of thinking… If we could only stop looking at food as “good” or “bad” and as exercise as a way to…

I’m going to be VERY truthful here… People often say things to me like: you are so driven and such a go-getter. Believe me, I am most grateful for this…

We chat about things being “good enough” all the time. We chat about doing SOMETHING is always better than doing NOTHING. We chat about trying to let go of that…

Ever notice how LONG you can dread something? Even notice how you can put something off for SO long and make it feel impossible? And then you finally do it.…

“Jan, you are setting yourself up to fail over and over again.” WAIT.  WHAT?! Yes, that’s what my dear friend said to me as I was explaining to her how…

Friends, we tend to complicate the living crap out of things and sometimes it only takes a small amount of effort to feel so prepared in life. So, what’s my…

As I continue to ease back into my “normal life” and recover from surgery, I’ve been having many thoughts and experiences that are helping me to better understand me. This…

Another week and another pile of wisdom bestowed upon us from The Daily Stoic. This passage was all about letting “reason rule the day” and how our minds were designed…

The last two weeks I’ve been sharing what I’ve been experiencing post surgery, mostly related to what I had hoped to do with the time and also just giving myself…

I had high hopes of tackling all kinds of things while I was home recovering. And well, the reality is, I got a few things done, but this whole illusion…

I received an AMAZING amount of support, gifts, and love from my Get Lively crew leading up to my surgery, but I have to admit that I felt GUILTY about…

I find that the day before vacation, I’m counting down the hours and just can’t wait to get there. Why do we live this way? Why do we push ourselves…

As you know, I just had my surgery… And as I was preparing this message in advance of all this, I turned to my daily reader, The Daily Stoic for…

This is probably the most uncomfortable I’ve ever been recording this weekly podcast. I’ve briefly mentioned this in other episodes/posts, but this week’s message and show is me basically saying:…