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I thought about something that I have been REALLY beating myself about – certainly for all of this year, but really, for years. I do not feel driven enough. I…

You see, my friends, I’m a WORLD CLASS gripper. I grip onto experiences like my life depends upon it. When I experience something fun, positive, kind, funny, or heartfelt -…

A recent experience reminded me that there are so many ways in which we can “be of service” in this life. Sometimes “being of service” to another can be as…

Did you know that the BEST three-point shooters in the NBA expect to miss 60% of the time?! This stat BLEW my mind! Imagine, being the BEST at what you…

Like me, you probably have many examples of struggles in your life, ranging from trying to conquer the choices of others to trying to conquer a number on the scale.…

I was mindlessly scrolling through videos this morning… As much as I tend to waste time doing this, sometimes (like this morning), I land on a gem. It was a…

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…