Phil on March 5th, 2009

I’ve been told that in order to be effective, goals must be written. The message was delivered as if writing goal makes them come true. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is needed is commitment. Writing goals is useful to establish clarity, to be specific about your goals in [...]

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Phil on February 26th, 2009

The end of the month of February, and my February Fitness Challenge, is rapidly approaching. It’s been a good and bad month. I definitely achieved a higher level of physical activity and created motivation for myself.
Nevertheless, I found many days I was overwhelmed by other commitments, mostly work related, that kept me busy [...]

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Phil on February 23rd, 2009

I’ve been a bit depressed for the past week as I made a mistake and bought some stock right before the market dropped 1,000 points. It made me feel stupid.
While I was out getting my 30 minutes of exercise today I decided to take a look at my current situation from a positive point [...]

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Phil on February 22nd, 2009

The skies are overcast today with temperatures in the upper 60’s.  I prefer the sunny and warm weather better, but it was good enough for a bike ride down to the beach.
I followed my usual course, riding along the river-trail bike path to the beach, and then along the beach for about 5 miles.  All [...]

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Phil on February 15th, 2009

The weekend was a good opportunity to re-commit to my exercise program and get some meaningful activity.  Saturday I rode my bike down to the beach, with a round trip of about 25 miles.  This was a good solid bit  of exercise for me.  I had my camera with me and stopped frequently so it [...]

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