Samurai and Seneca agreed: comfort with death brings better living. (Photo: Kalandrakas) “We don’t beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well.

I imagine this is not something most would want to read, but I can’t stop reading it. 

The world is filled with a**holes. They are everywhere. They hit your parked car without leaving a note, cut you off while waiting in line at Whole Foods and literally knock you out of the way on their mad dash to the subway so you face the closed do…

Seeking a European headquarters, the founder of a micro brewery is ultimately relying on his instincts. That’s what most successful entrepreneurs do.

The conventional advice when starting a business is to make a plan, set goals and analyze data. That’s all great advice, and we’ve done some of that when starting Natural Pro Fitness Coaching.

At first I spent all my time looking at data and concocting a plan. The data says that we’re nuts. The fitness game is beyond crowded and trying to make a name for ourselves looks to be impossible, on paper. 

When it comes to planning it seemed like every time I felt good about a plan things would change. I felt like all I was doing was revising plans. 

Then I realized that while planning and analysis are good and important, we needed to jump in and execute something. Even if it was the wrong thing. 

Our first poke at online fitness coaching didn’t go too well. We tried for a year or so and then decided that we needed to change our approach a little.

Now Natural Pro Fitness Coaching is growing slowly. We have several clients, all of whom love us and the service we provide them, and that has given me more confidence about our business than a business plan or data. 

We have a plan, although it’s open to change and under constant review, but now the focus is 100% on execution knowing that we will mess up, make mistakes, and hopefully dig ourselves out and keep going. 

Recently I realized how far behind we’d still be if we hadn’t stopped thinking and started executing. There’s no substitute for experience. Maybe I’ll look back at this post someday and laugh, either because we failed miserably, or because it marks the humble beginning of a vast empire, but either way it’s a constant learning experience. 

Fear is inevitable but we don’t have to let it paralyze us. Fear is largely based on the truths we’ve told ourselves, but most of these things aren’t true.

Learning to identify, accept and overcome fear has been a very important learning process for me. It’s never easy, and I don’t always succeed, but I get a little better each time. 

When you’re down on yourself or think you’re not good enough, remember these 11 tips and allow your light to shine! You were always meant to be good enough!

There are lots of days when I feel like I don’t measure up. It’s amazing how hard I try to be uplifting and positive for others, but can so harshly criticize myself. I would never speak to someone else the way I sometimes speak to myself. 

Trying to change that is a constant, but winnable battle. 

Happiness. It’s the term thrown around more often than any other term when people are asked what they are looking for in life. A loving partner, a fun high-paying job and endless world travel are also amongst some of the most common answers, however all of these are preference-based means to…

Good read to get started on a Monday.

Everyone makes mistakes. We’re human – we’re allowed. And when we do make an error in judgment, we simply apologize and move on. But the truth is, there are simply some actions we shouldn’t have guilt over because our emotional and physical healt…

Looks like I’m doing it all wrong……..

“Happiness is a habit – cultivate it.” ~ Elbert Hubbard Happiness is one aspiration all people share. No one wants to be sad and depressed. We’ve all seen people who are always happy – even amidst agonizing life trials. I’m not saying happy people don’t feel grief, sorrow

2 Teenager was murdered this morning in the city. Another teen was murdered this afternoon near my house. This list picked me up.