Be Better Than Good Enough
At my first high school weekend job, I ate lunch alone every shift. It didn’t start out that way, but it ended that way. The first few weeks I ate in the break room of the store, but I gradually transitioned to a picnic table across the street. I told the […]
This past weekend, as I hurried to make it to the afternoon lecture at Perform Better, they caught my eye. The three of them stood around a table talking. I couldn’t hear what was being said, but I imagined it as a highly intelligent conversation amongst three experts in the […]
“We can go home if we can get all the landmarks right on one more bone,” Laura proclaimed after our four hour study session in the cadaver lab. I agreed. Tomorrow was our first practical in anatomy and also our first exam of PT school. We were ready. So, we reached […]
“We are gonna go down to Nashville on Friday, you in?” my friend asked. “Nah, I’m going to be too tired.” My friend laughed because it was Tuesday and I already knew I was going to be too tired on Friday. My first year out of school was a […]
“LET’S GO!! WE ARE GOING TO MISS THEM!!” my roommate shrieked on Saturday morning. I knew exactly what this meant and before I knew it we were running out of the dorms, across the lawn and to the cafeteria. It was 11:51 am and we had exactly nine minutes to get to […]
It’s ironic. This is the post I’ve been looking forward to. Every week, I’ve felt myself getting closer to the halfway point. The one thought I’ve had is that if I could get here, to this week, I would be closer to achieving my goal than I was to writing it. […]
Diet and exercise go hand in hand. If you want to be healthier, you change both your diet and your exercise. What if changing your exercise not only allows you to use what you consume, but also has the power to change what you consume? In two different studies, subjects who […]
I came home thrilled to tell my parents the wonders of grape soda after I had consumed it at my friends 7th birthday party. My dad saw an opportunity to be my hero and proceeded to purchase the soda in the only way he knew how – bulk. The garage was lined […]
I’m halfway to reading my goal of 52 books in 52 weeks and I have to say- it is getting easier. (The fact that I can work toward achieving a goal while lying at the pool helps) My plan is to review the books I read in groups of thirteen. […]
At the end of every month, I can tell you exactly where my money goes. I can tell you down to the penny how much I spent on everything from coffee (yes, it has its own category) to professional development. I have a budget in place and there is no […]