Why Flexibility is Essential Eight years ago I was in really good shape. I lived in the mountains, across the street from a ski area. In the winter, I skied nearly every day. Some days, because there was night skiing, I would ski for ten hours. In the summer, I went hiking or mountain biking nearly every day. Sometimes, I would climb a mountain during the daylight hours, and then… Read More »Mental Flexibility: The Forgotten Skill
If you’re fresh out of college, applying for jobs, would you just take the first offer from the first company that wanted to hire you? If you’re selling your house, would you just say yes to the first offer made by a prospective buyer? Of course not. If you have options, it pays to be picky. Well, every day, you wake up with options: You can exercise, meditate, and do… Read More »Be Picky With Your Time
Your current habits have strongly established neural pathways. They’re like well-worn trails through the forest – easy to follow, easy to walk. But if they don’t take you where you want to go, what’s the point of following these paths? Perhaps you’d like to go somewhere else – a new lifestyle, a better career, a healthier mind and body – but every time you try (or even just think about… Read More »Why You Feel Resistance to Change
I’ve just finished my standard arm workout. It was more thorough than the arm workouts I did last year, but even though I did more exercises, it felt easier, and it seemed to take less time. Indeed, it probably did take less time than my old workouts. How can this be? Did I get stronger? Yes, but as I’ve gotten stronger, I’ve increased the weights and/or increased the repetitions of… Read More »The Power of an Automatic Routine