Why thinking positive can make things worse

That’s right, I said that positive thinking can, and often does, make things worse. Why? Because when you “try” to think positively it doesn’t work. As Master Yoda said, “Do or do not.  There is no try” When your attempt doesn’t work you will feel ashamed and insecure about the fact that you are doing…

Faces of Fitness

What does it mean to be fit?  If I were to poll a group of people would it be based on endurance, strength, asthetics?  My guess is that fitness would be directly linked to exercise, but it doesn’t have to be.  I would like to propose another way to think about fitness. This is an…

Work vs. Play

For a good portion of my life, work and play have been on opposite ends of the spectrum. Either I was doing productive, necessary work or I was free and playing; but never were they combined. How could they be? In my mind they were opposites. Which isn’t surprising since even the definitions for these…