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Resolutions Workshop: Connect With Your Potential
Stretch your limits. Embrace your chosen future.
Back and Forth
Ah, the new year. It’s kind of like starting a new journal, a new chapter, a new relationship. It’s all fresh and clean, all full of possibility.
Winter in Yellowstone
Avoid the warm-weather crowds. Experience nature in all her frozen glory.
The Art of Doing Nothing
We tend to think of inspiration as the arrival of new ideas coming to us from the outside. But inspiration also emerges from inside of us - very often when we’ve eliminated the distractions that keep it at bay.
Health: The New Sex Symbol
From the biological basis for attraction to the underpinnings of head-turning good looks — an exploration into the compelling connections between vitality and sex appeal.
How to Stop Emotional Shopping
Do you have the urge to splurge? Emotion-induced shopping may seem harmless, but letting your feelings take over your wallet could end up costing you more than money.
How to Be More Grateful
Boost your health, hope and happiness with a powerful dose of gratitude.
Counting Wins – and Losses
Reflecting on the year past, looking at notable accomplishments and things to celebrate, I see a great many within the Life Time Fitness organization.
Celebrate Your Fitness Accomplishments
Before you rush into setting health and fitness goals for the year ahead, stop and appreciate what you've already accomplished.
Virtue’s Rewards
Do the right thing. Seek and ye shall find. There is no try, there is only do.
Artistic Odyssey
Rediscover your creativity. Embark on an adventure that blends outdoor explorations with artistic pursuits. Your expressive side is calling . . .
Central Intelligence
Nature is a brilliant designer. Look at a tree, a flower, a landscape, and you’ll generally see a well-centered composition. Even in the case of infinitely complex fractal constructions, there’s an organic symmetry, a progressive spreading from a center point (or many center points) that can be viewed at virtually any magnification and still appear balanced, right, whole.
What is Mental Performance Training?
Using visualization and meditation techniques, mental performance training helps you to set goals and overcome obstacles, such as negative thinking, to achieve optimal performance. It can also help you to prepare mentally for high-pressure situations.
All I Want for Christmas
If there’s any time of year when it’s easy to lose one’s sense of center, it’s the holidays. Then again, if there’s any time of year ideal for regaining one’s sense of center, I’d say that it’s the holidays, too. Particularly if you get an early and proactive start on it.
How to Overcome the Busy Addiction
Life in the fast lane might be exciting, but are you living quickly at the expense of living deeply? Learn how to say no to busyness and yes to what really matters.
Goodbye, Convention. Hello, Evolution!
Among the many industries due for an evolution, I’d say the fitness industry ranks high. It seems like so much of it has remained trapped in the ’80s - the hype, the noise, the focus on the surface of things.
How to Make Driving Less Stressful
Does getting behind the wheel make you anxious or angry? Embark on the road to relaxation with these commute-improving tips.
Hopping the Track
Funny thing about ruts: You don’t always recognize you’ve fallen into one until you’ve come out the other side. We’re creatures of habit, after all. And that’s not entirely a bad thing.
Breaking the Gag Rule
My nephew, Toliver, turns 12 this month, and like many kids his age, he names pizza, burgers, macaroni and cheese, chips, fries, and similar fare among his best-liked foods.
Fitness Hits Home
Some of the most powerful messages we see and hear about fitness today (the ones that reach us through mass media) would seem to suggest that fitness is the domain of the young, the super-buff and, above all, the single.