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Motivation Monday: Embrace Adversity To Build Resilience

Some of the greatest success stories in history have come from people who’ve faced tremendous adversity in life. This week’s Motivation Monday theme is dedicated to people who have experienced war, famine, trauma, disabilities, severe discrimination, abuse, and more. Despite these massive obstacles, they develop into a highly successful person, business owners, politicians, or leaders. Statistics show that the percentage …

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Personal Insights In Facing Failure To Thrive

Today I have a personal story that sheds light on the experiences we all have with life, forward progress, and failure to thrive. We’ve likely all heard that it’s important to learn from failure. However, many times people think of failure as only being related to massive life events or serious mistakes. Yet, failure is a part of daily life. We …

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How’s Your Sleep Hygiene?

It’s Worlds Sleep Day on Friday. Unfortunately, it probably won’t get much attention. Sleep is something we all do. Most people LOVE to sleep, but the majority of people don’t have correct sleep hygiene. Stats show that over 1 in 3 North Americans don’t get enough sleep. This is high enough, but a much higher percentage of the population doesn’t …

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I’m A Horrible Personal Trainer (Why It’s A Good Thing)!

It’s true. I’m a terrible personal trainer. I learned this early in my career, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me, my career, and my client results. You see, in the traditional sense, Personal Trainer is there to provide workouts. From the Trainer and client mindset, results are all about the workouts and exercises you …

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Fun Friday Fact: The “Punchbuggy” Effect

I hope your Friday morning was awesome. Today’s message is a little later than normal since I went to bed later last night and chose to prioritize sleep this morning (Hey…it’s Friday!) 🙂 Today I want to talk about the “Punchbuggy” effect. Did you ever play that game as a kid? You know, the one where you get to punch …