I was wondering whether cultivating healthy screen relationships could be an interesting choice for a post. So much of our daily communications are with these apps and nothing seems to be broken. Everything in social media paradise is hunky dory. At least, that is what our screen relationships tell us anyway. Let’s go question some…
Tag: lifestyle
What a Pitch! The Endurance of Fitness Marketing
The marketing of fitness in the United States is booming. Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent yearly participating in exercise activities, as well as supplying equipment needs, buying nutritional supplements, and using fitness oriented services. Funny though how we are still unhealthy as a national population. Did we not spend enough money or is…
Thoughts on Plateauing
I know it sounds like the latest in adventure exercise but plateauing is just our body’s built-in way of defining optimal function. We, of course, think we know better but Nature still asserts its dominance in our physiology. Or does it? “I’ll Take Plateauing for $200, Alex” I was introduced to the experience of plateauing…
Being Difficult: A Healthy Lifestyle the Hard Way
Keeping with an exercise plan, or any healthy lifestyle choice for that matter, is difficult. For every reason we have to do something good for ourselves, we can always come up with loads of reasons to not do it. The weather is too hot/cold/rainy to go outside… I ate a carrot stick yesterday, so I…
Paying Attention to Our Arguments
I am coming around to thinking that we no longer pay enough attention to our arguments. We go with the first loudly expressed idea and defend it without due consideration of that idea. The substance of the idea is lost in all the noise surrounding it. I know what you are going to say. “But…