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My year of swimming: gaining the confidence to try something new

One of the hardest things about exercise is gaining the confidence to start in the first place.
The swimming pool is my ocean of insecurity. I remember swimming all the time as a kid, but pretty much stopped after grammar school (possibly because I became more aware of what I looked like in a bathing [...]

Best tip of the year: “Start Now”

You know all that stuff about No Years Resolutions?
This is the stuff I’m talking about!
J.D. Roth just posted a very brave decision on Get Fit Slowly: he’s starting now.
A little backstory – J.D. writes for Get Rich Slowly, a blog about slow but sure paths to financial stability. He’s applying the same [...]

Take Consistent Action – Be the Tortoise!

Right after I wrote the last post on No Year’s Resolutions, I read this timely article in which Brad Isaac compares goal seeking to the tortoise and the hare.
You know the story: there’s a race between a tortoise and a hare. The hare runs like a bat outta hell but tuckers out before the [...]

No Year’s Resolutions

“Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our [...]