Mental Toughness: The Winning SECRET of Elite Athletes

This article was originally posted on Gaetan Boutin’s Strong-Athlete.com website.  I reposted it here because I thought it would be valuable to everyone, not just athletes.  Think about the possibilities if you were to apply this to other phases of your life – your work, your relationships, raising your children.  Think of how much better [...]

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An Anxiety Pee & 100 Burpees

100 burpees in 9:04 – Thursday August 11th, 2011 Gaetan lets me talk a lot of junk during and after my workouts. After the burpee tabata last week I foolishly said I did almost 100 burpees{I had really done about 40 max}. He replied no way, I said of course I did.   He challenged me [...]

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Being The Adult

Source: Jarel Cockburn Flickr As I pulled into the Bank of Nova Scotia parking lot at Yonge and Lawrence, there was an older couple parking their car in the middle spot of the parallel parking area. I drove by them to turn around and proceeded to park just behind him. The wife had just finished [...]

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Commitment

Source:  Jarel Cockburn Flickr  The past few years have given me a lot to think about and even when I thought I knew it all, I quickly realized that I still had so much to learn. Commitment to someone is much more than just being with just that person alone.  Far too many times we [...]

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Choices & Small Wins

A little disclaimer first: This is for the growing health freak in me so if you like eating McDonald’s or drinking the family size coke then you may not want to read this post it may make you sick. Source: Jarel Cockburn Flickr I realized a few months back that I was becoming a real [...]

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Want To Be Successful? Become A Buddhist

  Source: Jarel Cockburn Flickr Chris Guillebau has a very informative and beautiful blog called The Art of Non-Conformity, and a few days ago he posted this piece – Legacy Projects and The Love Of True Friends.  In the post, he essentially states that you should not expect your friends and family to be at all excited about your [...]

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Never Never Never

Source: Jarel Cockburn Flickr Every morning I wake up and I read a post by Seth Gobin – he is a genius to say the least.  A few mornings ago I woke up to read this post – Delivering On Never.  I let it sink in while I made my morning protien shake and thought [...]

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