I Need a Hero The first question that I ask any of my clients is: “Who is your favorite Hero?” Whether from a movie, comic book, novel, or video game we’ve all had a fictional,…
Posts tagged motivation
How to Maximize Your Time With Less Payne
Tell me if this story sounds familiar. A young hard-nosed cop, the brightest new star in the NYPD, returns to his home across the river in NJ after a long day on the beat. Extending…
Self-Talk, The Power of Thoughts, & Why I Would Die on a Deserted Island
Never Have I Ever…. Watched a single episode of the television phenomenon Lost. Lost premiered while I was in college. That place where I was too busy crushing Yuengling, playing poker, and smoking myself…
Why You (May) Have Fat Loss Frustrations
Mario, Fat Loss Frustrations, & the Scale “I am going to lie on the couch tonight, watch terrible television shows that rot my brain, and drink beer.” These were the first words spoken as my…
Free Fitness: A Zero Dollar Solution to Fitness
A Lesson Learned from My Grandfather I’ve been a big fan of the Tim Ferriss podcast for the last two years. Whether he is interviewing successful CEOs, scientists, Hollywood writers or directors, Tim…
The Most Important Front in Your Battle for Fat Loss (or Gaming)
Battlefront: Fat Loss Star Wars: Battlefront is officially out today! via GIPHY As a rabid fan of the original Battlefront games, I dreamed for years that someone would make a new iteration of this franchise….
A How To Guide for Escaping The Dead Marshes of Motivation
“I don’t feel motivated”
When those words seep into your brain you have entered what I call “The Dead Marshes”.
Like Frodo and Sam in Lord of the Rings, we all find ourselves trodding through the Dead Marshes of Motivation at some point.
How To Get Back in the Gym: After a Vacation, Illness, or “Break”
“What’s the best way to head back into the gym? After a vacation, illness, heavy workload, etc. you can sense you are gonna hate it at first but you gotta start back up. How do you do it the right way?”
What a Video Game Taught Me About Leadership
For decades all around the world, however, video games have been used as teaching tools, educating kids on a plethora of subjects like history, pattern recognition, critical thinking, and more since the early 1990s. (Think Carmen Sandiego, Oregon Trail, Tetris, SimCity, Starcraft, etc.)
If games can teach us how to recognize patterns, develop plans of action, think critically, manage resources, problem solve and more, could a game you play online help you develop leadership skills that you can apply in RL? (that’s real life for those who don’t speak gamer)
How to Find Your Why
Implementing a new consistent behavior that you hope will lead to a life changing habit can make you feel like a salmon swimming upstream. You are constantly fighting the current of your own mind as you work to establish this habit.
In all honesty, most of us would rather the habit fairy show up and magically leave the habit under our pillow. We want it all and we want it now!