The pursuit of a strong and healthy body is a good one. Whether it is to lose 20 lbs. of fat or build 10 lbs. of lean muscle, you are to be applauded for your commitment to yourself and to the ones that love you. And to succeed, you must have a single minded drive [...]
Choose to be who you want to be – A better resolution
February 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If you’ve not made a resolution for this year (or God forbid – already abandoned yours), then let this be your “new” resolution for getting your weight back under your control: In 2011, I achieved my weight loss objectives because I reclaimed my innate ability to choose. As a side, always state your goals in [...]
Instead of New Year’s Resolutions, Set S.M.A.R.T.E.R. Goals
January 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
by Tom Venuto, Why do new year’s resolutions usually fail? Why do you start with guns blazing on January 1st, but by February, you’re losing motivation, cheating on your diet, skipping workouts, and slipping back into old patterns? John LaValle, a master trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) suggests that we should take a closer [...]
The Top 40 Things I Learned in 2010
January 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
by Vince DelMonte, For the past few years I’ve been compiling a top things I learned list and we’re back by popular demand! This year I broke up my top forty list into four categories that I’m extremely passionate about and they all start with the letter M: muscle, manhood, marriage and money. As you can [...]
Help Others to Help Your Health
December 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
How giving back affects your body By Drs. Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen, Our basic premise is: Your body is amazing. You get a do-over; it doesn’t take that long, and isn’t that hard if you know what to do. In these columns, we give you a short course in what to do. We [...]
Greatness Beyond the Gridiron
December 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Vince Lombardi’s ability to motivate people to achieve greatness transcended football. K. Shelby Skrhak If Vince Lombardi hadn’t become a football coach, he would have become a Catholic priest. The Brooklyn-born altar boy studied at seminary, waking before dawn to attend daily mass. Religion was as much about routine as it was devotion to his [...]
The Action Hero’s Launch Pad
December 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Superstar Jason Statham is building an incredible success story. Here’s how he uses his home base to fuel his passions By: Mike Zimmerman As if someone called ahead and choreographed it. That’s the traffic setup before us on Sunset Boulevard: a half-dozen cars staggered at intervals between two lanes. Jason Statham, the Transporter himself, sees [...]
Conquering the Seven Summits
December 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Kay LeClaire climbed Everest and others–and left behind her fear of new challenges. By Ivy Hughes October 13, 2010 When Kay LeClaire, 61, talks about her extreme life experiences, she speaks as if she were relaying the weather—very matter-of-fact. “I became the oldest woman to complete the Seven Summits by default, not by goal,” LeClaire [...]
Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything
November 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By Tony Schwartz, I’ve been playing tennis for nearly five decades. I love the game and I hit the ball well, but I’m far from the player I wish I were. I’ve been thinking about this a lot the past couple of weeks, because I’ve taken the opportunity, for the first time in many years, [...]
Anthony Robbins: It Is Your Choice
November 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Take control of your decisions and your life with these strategies. Tony Robbins What is the single force that shapes the quality of our lives? What power do we have that can change everything? As you and I both know, the answer is the power of choice. During the past 30 years I’ve had [...]
Building a Lean Body by Building Your Vision First
September 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It all begins with a mission statement. In many ways, the US Constitution is a mission statement. Our founding fathers did not start out by stating that the US would be democracy, and then go about the business of setting it up. Rather, they articulated a compelling reason for what they wanted to do in [...]
Paralysis by Analysis
September 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
There is a seemingly age old cliche, “paralysis by analysis, ” that affect or afflict many of us. For many, though, an inability to make a decision is no different than being a procrastinator or being just lazy. There is no difference in that the results are the same. Nothing gets done. But in truth, [...]
8 Essential Life Lessons for True Success
August 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter), January 23, 2009 If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. - Joseph Addison Looking at my life, there are many life lessons I’ve learned. Some of them are the fruits [...]
