In today’s missive, I have a humiliating tale of High School Mark with a fitness takeaway for ya… But first off, please let me celebrate you. It’s been almost an entire year since the world shutdown. We are slowly, slowly coming out of it. With any luck, we’re a few months away from things starting to feel a bit more normal.

Our life is a reflection of our habits. We’re all exposed to the winds of chance and luck. But when we focus on our circle of control, habits play a leading role.

The first woman who stole my heart was Penny from Inspector Gadget. You’re welcome to laugh all you like. But as a five year old, what wasn’t there to love?

If you’re someone that really wants to “get it right,” this can be a hard habit to break. After all, “getting it right” has probably brought you many good things in life. And there’s a time and place for dialing in every single little detail.

You know, turns out you CAN have too much of a good thing… I want to share some insight on an important — and tricky — fitness question: How often and how hard should you be working out?

Oh boy, today we’re addressing one of the most common obstacles to New Year’s resolution success. But first… We recently had a Ninja come down kind of hard on us after a first year anniversary.

Ninjas are always teachin’ me stuff. And I recently (re)learned a very important lesson about how to actually achieve success with your fitness goals.

Some people poop all over New Year’s resolutions. Call me your annoying optimist friend, but I actually think there’s value in using the calendar to leverage a psychological kickstart.