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Sunday Story…the 9 Save Your Life Reasons to Work Out (not exercise)



I often rant and rave about the benefits of working out. You notice I said working out not exercising. I exercise my rights, I exercise my math skills, I ride an exercise bike but I don’t exercise. I work out. I get moving, get…

Feel Good Friday…Kindness Boomerang

What goes around comes around.  Sometimes it is just as simple as that.  We never know the how far the ripples will reach when we throw kindness into the pool.  Here is a short movie that shows us what might happen:…

This is my first of two blogs around looking into the social redeeming value of viewing 'Thrive' the movement and more importantly, stimulating more inspired Conversation together.

'Thrive' Notes/Blog

SurThrival of the Human Spirit / ‘Thought for Food’

Much of this video is on Global economics and sustainable energy with solution strategies for social & environmental…

Sunday Story…The 9 Big Butt Reasons

The other day I was talking to somebody about food and why you shouldn’t eat certain things.  And I was about half-way into my usual explanation about foreign proteins and anti-nutrients and sugars and such when she stopped me short.  “Yeah, yeah, yeah,”…

Feel Good Friday…365 Gratitude

Gratitude may be the most powerful practice we can engage in.  It is simple and easy to do, yet it has the power to change your life.  What happens is simple…you start really appreciating all the things around you.  Instead of looking through the lens of complaint,…

Sunday Story…Practice

Over the years, I have found the answer to a lot of questions to be: Practice.  If you want your performance to be mistake free: Practice.  If you want to get good at something, anything:  Practice.  If you want to be a master, a virtuoso:…

Feel Good Friday…The Power of Music

This especially poignant video shows us not only the power of music but the power of understanding how we are all alike, how we are all much more the same than we are different.  I am moved by the power music.  See it here:…

Sunday Story…Expect More

Expect More of yourself.  Way too often we don’t.  We don’t expect more of ourselves.  We don’t set the bar high enough.  I am not talking about doing more, or being more efficient, or getting more done, or having more.  I am talking about being more.  Living…

Feel Good Friday…DanceWalk

What if you came upon a cross walk sign that said dance instead of walk?  Would you?  Dance, that is, instead of walk?  Maybe if it said skip, or hop, or bounce?  Then would you?  Way too often we move through the world without any idea of the things we could do and see…

Sunday Story…Resolution 12

If you have been paying attention over the last few weeks we have talked about resolutions and goals, why they work, why they don’t and how to be proactive and honest with those things you want to do to improve your life.  Honestly, most of your New Year’s…

Feel Good Friday…The Good Life

In this short film we come face to face with our ideas about money and accomplishment.  And how are we going to define what success really is.  It really isn’t the number of years in your life; it is the amount of life in your years.  So what about 2012?  How much…

Sunday Story...Execution Day…

Feel Good Friday…I’m Being Santa

Ahh…Santa Claus…the mythical fat man flying around delivering toys and gifts throughout the world…Santa maybe the best example of random acts of kindness out there.  Think about it…you don’t know him; he drops in from the sky, puts some gifts out for you and leaves…

Sunday Story…the Question

I get the question every week if not every day.  It really isn’t the question that someone is asking.  Because the question they are asking is rarely the question that needs to be answered.

Usually the question is:

What do I need to do to lose…

Feel Good Friday…Change for a Dollar

This extremely poignant and award winning short film explores what an impact a small act can have on a life.  We can “pay it forward” and never know what will become of our act.  Maybe that change you just gave away changed somebody’s life.  Maybe that kind…

Sunday Story…Couch Potato?

The other morning, after kickboxing class several of us were having a conversation about various exercise methods.  The fact of the matter is that there are many ways to become more fit, especially if you are starting from zero, or less than zero (yes that is…

Feel Good Friday…Caring Teachers

For those of you who are teachers…this video (an advertisement, really) should remind you that you have no idea of the impact you may have on someone’s life.  The reach of your influence goes far beyond the work you do in a class room.  For those of you who are not…

Sunday Story…

I am fat.  I have to face it…like all 2/3rds of Americans today I am overweight.   I am at least 10 pounds overweight and I have no one to blame but myself. I really need to stop kidding myself about this.  Sure, I have some abdominal muscle showing which should indicate a…

Feel Good Friday…I Give Thanks

Here is one for you to just sit back and enjoy.  Gratitude is a grace in our lives.  And it is sitting there waiting for us to access it.  All you have to do is be grateful.

Enjoy it here:…

Sunday Story…The Urge to Purge

About 3 years ago I “down-sized” my life.  I moved into a house 1/3^rd smaller than the one I was living in.  A 1 one car instead of 2, one bedroom less, everything was smaller.   I even lost so much stuff I could put the car in the garage (what a…