Monthly Archives: January 2014
FMM 1 31 14 Core Training
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi. The first time I set foot in a gym, I was struck by one thing: all of this effort and sweat with no product. I thought of how it would appear to the hardworking farmers and laborers of developing […]
FMM 1 24 14 Nothing but Blue Sky
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” ~ Victor Hugo. On one of my flights into Manchester, I don’t recall how many years ago, I had a surprising discovery. It was a clear, cloudless morning, the sun rising from a rose tinged horizon, the sky a beautiful shade of dark blue. As […]
FMM 1 17 14 Self-Efficacy
“Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.”~ Viktor E. Frankl Studies show that you can predict a person’s ability to change a habit by the degree to which they believe in their ability to change. Self-efficacy is the term given to that belief […]
FMM 1 10 14 Sensational!
“Open your eyes, and look within.”~ Robert Nesta Marley (aka ‘Bob’) What a distracted society we have become. We are no longer satisfied with doing things one activity at a time. For some reason we feel inadequate, lazy, or incomplete when we focus on one single thing. The generation coming up are experts at […]
1 3 14 Choices
“You say goodbye, and I say hello” John Lennon All good things must come to an end. And so a trip to the family, to England and Wales comes to an end. With it come the regrets, the questions. What if? What if I did not live in Miami? What if I had stayed in […]
Friday Morning Messages 