When it comes to dealing with stressors and managing stress, we can have a great plan. We can have great motivation. We can have all the tools we need at our disposal. But if we ignore what’s around us and how our environment affects us, we are ultimately doomed to fail. With everything that we …
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Less Stress Part 1 – Lower Stress Through Your Outlook
This is Episode 109 of the TD Fitness Podcast, and Part 1 of my Less Stress Series. Chronic stress is unhealthy. It affects our mood, hormones and causes us to retain weight. But, a productive and positive mindset is the first step in overcoming the mental challenges that come with positive change, and it’s the …
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Your Past Is Not Your Future
As a personal trainer, I know that the greatest predictor of injury is past injury in whatever part of the body we’re talking about. But physical injury and mental efficacy (your belief in yourself that you can do a particular thing) are different. The problem on the mental side is that it’s easy to look …
New Information, A New Outlook
How do you let the past go in your attempt to move forward? How do you free yourself from the guilt of having lived a certain way for so long, having let so many things stress you out, affect your mood, distract you from the things that you now realize are truly important in life…? …
Don’t Simply Do What You Did
How do you change your mindset so that you do not allow past stressors affect you like they have before? Some of it comes with maturity, some of it comes with practice, and some of it stems from being clear on your priorities, which allows you to be clearer about what’s NOT as important. It …