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Jan 11

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Your Mindset: Your Health

mindsetI recently watched a TEDx talk a friend of mine, Ed Briceno, gave a few months ago in Manhattan Beach.   His talk is anchored in research done by world-renowned Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, an expert in how mindset creates motivation and productivity and the author of the appropriately titled book, Mindset.  Her premise is that we all operate in one of two ways: using a fixed mindset (the belief that our basic abilities are fixed traits) or a growth mindset (the belief that basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work). Read more

Jan 7

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On Making

ARTI’ve been working on an art project on and off for a few months, and I finally finished it this weekend (yeee-haw)!  This is a big deal for me for a few reasons: 1) I have so many unfinished projects tucked away in drawers or filed on my computer that I often doubt whether I’m capable of actually finishing anything, 2) I’m pretty psyched to have something new to hang on the wall, and 3) It clarified that although I may not officially be an artist by day, I can still do art (we all can)! Read more

Jan 2

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Earbud Face-off: Lady Gaga versus Ira Glass

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The sea of options we have to motivate, inspire, and distract us during our workouts is incredible – music, podcasts, and books are all available and easy to take anywhere.  Even with such abundant options, until a few years ago, I always defaulted to music – the light, poppy, top-40 stuff for my high-intensity workouts, and more melancholy sounds for trail running, yoga, and long rides (my needs were so basic that even my old Sony Walkman may have even sufficed).  I wasn’t open to other kinds of media, in short, because I was concerned that my brain and body wouldn’t simultaneously function well enough to digest anything beyond music. Read more

Dec 27

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Play!

photoChristmas night in our house was marked by a rousing game of Trivial Pursuit.  We all paired up and tried to figure out whether Helsinki or Oslo is further north (Helsinki), what the name of the first astronaut to return from space was (some Russian dude), and what organ hepatitis impacts (the liver).  I’m thankful I married into a game-playing family, as I love games.  I grew up playing hearts, cribbage and gin…I kept a deck of cards alongside my Eurorail pass as I traveled through Europe in college…I’ve bonded with friends over board games in my adult life…and I have fond memories of falling in love with Sean over al fresco Scrabble games. Read more

Dec 21

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The “To Don’t” List

I’m a list maker…always have been.  I like lists because they make me feel like I’m moving forward (or at least planning to move forward), and because checking things off simply feels good.  Beyond liking lists, I need them to both remember the past (I jot down a “top 10” list after every trip I take) and frame the future (I keep track of everything from fleeting ideas to daily tasks to big picture goals to places I want to visit and people I want to meet).  As a function of spending time at a computer during the day, I’m making more and more lists online (Evernote is my favorite platform for this), but I still prefer the old school ones I write by hand and tack up on my wall or chalkboard or fridge to see every day. Read more

Dec 14

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A Jolt of Perspective

For today’s post, I had grand plans of covering Tabata (a high intensity training method from Japan that I’ve been trying out).  But after hearing about this morning’s incomprehensible shooting in Connecticut, writing about interval training just doesn’t feel quite right.  Tragedies like this are impossible to make sense of; my brain can barely even process what actually happened, and as a parent, I have to work hard to resist spiraling into “what if” scenarios involving my own kids.  With acts that are this senseless, it’s difficult to extract any sort of wisdom or lessons.  It’s pretty tough to even move beyond the heartbreak.  But for me there is one meaningful thing this situation does offer: a jolt of perspective. Read more

Dec 13

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We Give Thanks…

I’m not a formally religious person.  Rather, through years of living in New York and now the Bay Area, I’ve evolved into a token 21st-century “spiritual, but not religious” person, looking to things like yoga, nature, books, and other people for some sort of understanding of why we’re all here on this earth (more to come on that some other time).  And while this view is liberating and open and inclusive, it also brings with it some challenges.  Questions like how to incorporate the childhood religious traditions/rituals (i.e., singing Silent Night by candlelight on Christmas Eve, volunteering in the church food pantry, family Easter scavenger hunts) are ambiguous and difficult to resolve. Read more

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