How Is Your Health?

Start Working On Your Excuses
Start Working On Your Excuses

Do you find yourself being interested in this question, or do you quickly change the subject?

If you’re interested, great.

If you change the subject, you have an awesome opportunity not to.

I’m not you, but if I was, I wouldn’t wait until January 1st to make a resolution. I’d be formulating it right now, working slowly and steadily at making enough small changes that come January 1, 2011, you’ll feel like this is the year you won’t fail.

Have a great Monday. Are you heading over to jeff noel.org?

Have You Tried Acting?

Finals. World Championships.
Finals. World Championships.

You can (but make excuses not to) embrace my tag line here at Lane 8: If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.

Or you can subscribe to a more famous person’s quote. Either way, we’re saying the same thing.

“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Dorothea Brande

Dorothea Brande wrote the quintessential how-to-write book, Becoming a Writer, which was among the first to address every writer’s core problem: How to sit down and let the words flow. Her book, published in 1934, remains in print today.

(next blog)

How To Feel Young Again

It’s inevitable, isn’t it? No stopping it, is there? Not a single person is immune from it.

The aging process.

The more we read and the longer we live, the observations remain conclusive – feeling young comes down to the basics.

This Everyday Health article, 10 Ways to Feel Young Again, just arrived a few minutes ago. I enjoyed the quick reminder that there are specific “basics” we can do to feel younger and more alive.

Predictably, one of them is “join a cause“.