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PUMPING IRONY: The Trouble With Hearing
For several weeks now, I’ve been having some trouble with my hearing.
What’s Your Passion?
It’s not just a cocktail-party question. It’s the key to discovering a dream life you can start living now.
The Pursuit of Healthiness
None of the positive changes we hope to make as a society can be sustained without the energy and resilience of a whole lot of healthy, vital people.
PUMPING IRONY: How to Grow Old
I’m not the kind of guy who regularly visits the doctor, but if I were and if I lived in…
PUMPING IRONY: An Aging Rookie
It’s often said of rookies who have graduated from the college hardwood to NBA arenas that they have to wait for the game to “slow down” before they can feel comfortable with a basketball in their hands.
PUMPING IRONY: Danger Signs?
I had an interesting revelation last week. After a long absence, I headed downstairs to the gym after work on Tuesday and dragged myself through about a 45-minute workout, including a stint on my old nemesis, the Elliptical Death Machine, and a trip to The Pit, where I got reacquainted with some heavy (for me) iron.
What’s Your Plan?
At several points in our lifetimes, most of us wind up pondering what the heck we are doing here, and what we want to do next.
A Life to Die For
Life is short. The possibilities are endless. Therein lies the rub — and a golden opportunity to get clear about your real priorities.
Push Through the Finish
Within every challenging goal lies an opportunity for self-discovery – and a platform for self-mastery.
PUMPING IRONY: You’re Not Getting Older, You’re Getting Stronger . . .
My daughter, The Boss Mare, called me from Michigan this morning to report that she’d had a flat tire on…
PUMPING IRONY: Living Longer — the Old-Fashioned Way
Everyone wants to live a long and healthy life, right? So doesn’t it just make sense to develop a drug that eliminates the cells in your body that contribute to aging?
Happy Endings
In the rush and muddle of our daily lives, though, we sometimes neglect to appreciate how much of our present reality hinges on the course of events that could have turned out very differently.
Refill, Please!
An alarming convergence of overlapping Gantt charts, my life suddenly looks like it’s being meted out in 15-minute increments – because it is.
Race-Brain Retrospective
In the heat of the goal-seeking moment, it’s important not to let larger priorities get lost in the shuffle.
PUMPING IRONY: Redefining Cancer
The other day, I was playing golf with my two older brothers and a friend — all retired — and overheard my senior sibling mention that he had just been in to see his doctor.
PUMPING IRONY: Exercising Without Exercising
I didn’t do much that would count as actual gym-type exercise this week, but I’m going to say it was…
PUMPING IRONY: No Shortcuts
I get a lot of emails each week extolling the virtues of various anti-aging products, but this one was more entertaining than most:
A Meditation on Nothing
There’s something about the promise of variety, novelty and sheer quantity that appeals powerfully to us.
The Path Out of Predictability
Get a little too accustomed to your own comfort zone, and you risk becoming comfortably numb.
PUMPING IRONY: Blame It on My Brain
I stumbled upon an interesting theory in the NYT recently that suggests the brain has more influence over our athletic…
PUMPING IRONY: Tomorrow’s Another Day
The key to maintaining a solid fitness regimen is to not get too disappointed when an entire week goes by and you basically fail to do much of anything that you’ve committed yourself to doing.