The Fundamentals

In sports, when a coach has a losing season, everyone asks what they are going to do to get the team back to winning. Their answer almost always involves renewed focus on the fundamentals. They talk about focusing on conditioning, getting stronger, proper technique...

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

In our last blog, we talked about the power and importance of establishing positive routines in our daily lives. Today, we are going to talk more about why it’s so crucial to establish these routines, and it might be something that you haven’t thought about. The thing...

Making Your Routines Routine

Today let’s focus on routines. Are they important? Do they matter? What do routines have to do with success? The answers are yes, yes and a lot. Here are a few varied examples: University of Alabama fans are probably well aware of Nick Saban’s meal routine. He has two...

Encouragement

In the previous blog, I talked about the dangers of discouragement. While avoiding discouragement during a pandemic is hard, we don’t need to make things harder with unfair comparisons between now and our pre-pandemic lives. “Pandemic fatigue” related to all the...

Discouragement

With everything going on in the world—all the uncertainty, all the economic and social chaos—we’re understandably feeling some discouragement. Managing work and life during a pandemic is hard! Never mind trying to learn a new skill, lose a few pounds, start a new...