People who lift weights… I mean really lift weights… tend to get viewed through a certain lens by a large bulk of society. Muscle = moron in a lot of contexts. You need look no further than your average Planet Fitness commercial. It’s as if there is an inversely proportionate relationship between size and smarts. [...]
Posts Tagged reflection
The Plank in My Eye
Jul 27
I think I’m like many people who can be a total ace at passing out advice that I then do a less-than-ideal job of following for myself. I don’t think there is anything remarkable about that in myself or in others – it’s just far easier to cast the penetrating light of truth upon a [...]
The Zen of Baseball
Mar 10
Growing up, I was all about baseball. It was truly one of my favorite things, from watching games on TV, going to Fenway Park with my family, collecting stacks and stacks of baseball cards or playing one of a thousand forms of the game. They were all good and I didn’t want to go without.As [...]
This Might Not Work
Mar 8
I’m a little more than halfway through Seth Godin’s new book “Poke the Box” and I’m duly intrigued. It’s funny because it’s a pretty short book and the text is not densely packed onto each page, but it would be a terrible mistake to think this implies the thoughts contained therein are as thin as [...]
Forty Facebook-Free Days
Mar 7
Every year when Lent rolls around, I try to figure out what in the world I’m going to do for those 40 days that will be meaningful of the season. As Mom always says, “You don’t have to give something up. You can do something instead.” She makes a good point (as Mom usually does), [...]
Proactive Simplicity
Sep 5
Think of some of the best teachers you’ve ever had in your life. Go ahead… I’ve got loads of time to wait… umm… especially since by the time you read this post, I’ll be all done with it and not literally sitting around waiting for your pondering self. Win-win for everyone! But in thinking about [...]
What you see above is the reason for the title of this post… because I will be up on the shelf for the next few weeks as I finally decided to do the smart/mature/wussy thing and take a little time off from lifting. Why oh why am I doing such a thing? Above are the [...]
Wait… Things Went RIGHT?
Apr 24
As often seems to be the case, the good people over at Lifehacker have provided inspirational fodder for this humble blog of mine, this time in the form of a referral to a blog post over at Psychology Today. It’s not a long post, but hey… who said they had to be long to be [...]
The Quiet Drive
Jan 14
I have a list of things I wish I would do (or do more often), not unlike many people. It’s a fairly simple list: Date Scarlett Johannsen; Demand recognition of my rightful claim to the Polish monarchy; and Devote more time to thinking and reflecting. The first one got screwed up by the allegedly dreamy [...]
