Two weekends ago, I completed my latest Mud Ninja race. And though it wasn’t my most successful race as far as obstacle completion and time go, it was a complete success from a level that I didn’t even consider at the time, but was a lesson I realized a few days…
I talk a lot, in my blogs and outside them, about how mankind is hard-wired to the natural world and how the people who are truly the happiest and most successful are those who have figured out how to live in accordance with that natural heritage. A lot of my…
Most folks like things to be easy. Right? I mean, who wants to make their lives more difficult? We all have plenty of problems in our lives, and adding another problem on top of them is just nuts. Well, that’s the wrong attitude, and I’m going to show you why.…
Making changes to our lives is never easy. And picking the right way to do it can make all the difference. When it comes to making big changes in your life, there are two major schools of thought on how to do it: there’s the baby steps method, where you…
One of the big discoveries that’s gotten a lot of play in the media over the past couple of years is the idea that sitting is awful for us. So, many folks have been switching things up and creating standing desks. I’m one of them – I switched to a…
The first time you tell someone that you’re training for an obstacle course race, you generally get one of two attitudes about it: those who think it’s awesome or even just impressive, and those who don’t get the attraction. And that’s fine. Not everyone is into OCR. But there’s an extreme…
As some of you probably know, I am standing in for my friend “Head of Section” on the Being James Bond podcast while he’s on a secret mission. I took the opportunity to use it as a way to share the wonders of MovNat for this week’s episode and I…
Back before World War I, a French navy officer named Georges Hébert was present at the eruption of Mount Pelée on the island of Martinique. There, he witnessed the disaster and what he considered too much needless death due to the accident. And it had nothing to do with early-warning…
So, over the past few days, a couple of slight mishaps and a whole lot of fun have brought a new round of mindfulness into my movement practices. But first, a little background. I think I’ve mentioned before that I was a competitive swimmer as a youth. I swam…
