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Thoughts, feelings and behaviors become permanent Fixtures in our lives if we give them time to settle. Removing or adding a body/mind Fixture sometimes requires hammer and nail work to the psyche. Self Care is probably the most structurally critical, life affirming, aesthetically enhancing Fixture we can incorporate into our lives. Most of us know […]

Skillful Living takes decisions. Whether in health, hobbies, harmonious relationships or career – it’s the Way Down Decisions that launch us toward longed-for results. Way Down decisions have a “brought up from the center of my being” feel to them. What makes these deeper decisions different from the sincere “I’m changing now” declaration? The difference

Unbidden ideas like to show up while bathing. Recently when showering, I took a small step to reach for the soap when “Bam” – clear as day my mind told me “You are stepping into the future.” “How fitting.” The thought finished… “Even the smallest Exercise step we take leads to a better tomorrow.” We

This week we focus on National Best Friends Day, which happens on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Best Friends and Tip #9 in Ten Tips for a Happy Healthy Life, featured in our January 4, 2021, blog post, share Appreciation’s reciprocal qualities. We can capture Friendship’s essence from this Mayo Clinic article1: Good friends are good

This Memorial Day we honor those who died serving the USA by creating Something Better out of our lives. We can create Better work for self, family, friends, neighbors, community and country. Let Something Better challenge and improve us even in social activities and hobbies.May at least one of our learning categories fall under the

I quieted my alarm at 5:05 a.m. and rolled over to doze an extra two hours, giving myself a full nine hours of sleep. By mid-morning mind and body felt really alert and energetic. Only one word could describe the feeling of having obtained enough sleep that day: “Precious” – defined as of great value;

This week we review a term that improves the lives of age 45+ individuals. It’s called “BDNF” or brain-derived neurotrophic factor. Quoting directly from my favorite fitness writer, Pete McCall…”There is plenty of research showing that exercise stimulates a neurotransmitter (chemicals which help the central nervous system do its job) called BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor)

“What a cool, descriptive word,” I thought, when introduced to the term Inflammaging. The word appeared under the Causes of Mobility Dysfunction section of my Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) Golf Fitness course. That Inflammation plus aging1 equals inflammaging obviously isn’t cool. Generally as inflammaging increases, a person will feel stiffer in overall movement. Inflammaging’s symptoms

Chances are as you read this post, I am flying home from Virginia. Hopefully you’ve had a great week. Let’s celebrate computer software that allows for writing a post and scheduling it to publish six days later. We live in a marvelous outreach day and age. I’ve thought of you much while visiting family. Hope

Perhaps our rock climber has a stronger grip than most of us need for every day use. Yet medical research states that a powerful grip can serve as a biomarker, a measurable indicator, of long life in women and men.1 No need to read further if you do manual labor, or live and work on