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Training your dogs for running Practice, discipline, consistency and partnership. I swear I’ve written a post on how to run with your dog before. I can’t find it. Either my mind is filling in blanks where it needs to or it got lost in one of those internet black holes. 20+ years into my running …
The system theory of life balance. In our ongoing series on life balance we have so far discussed two topics. The first was a discussion on how to visualize and balance the different areas of your life. The second was an exercise in defining ‘self’ or what makes you as an individual being tick. What …
Snippets of sheep and pilot whales I’ve been reading Thoreau’s Cape Cod in short snatches in the morning. I find I can’t read Thoreau like a normal narrative. I need to take it in short shifts to try to digest the dense archaic language and the sometimes-hidden meaning. Cape Cod is one of his funnier …
Nature versus Nurture? Are we really born to run? All of us? How much of our ability is sewn into our genes and how much is developed in our travels on this earth through effort and experience? I look at myself with my mind’s eye and I wonder how I ever got to this place …
Focus When Alexander confronted and defeated Darius, first at Issus and then on the plains of Guagamela, the Macedonian army was outnumbered 3 to 1 and fighting in a hostile and foreign land. How was this young king able to win these battles and gain control of the known world? Alexander was able to focus …
