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How Do You Feel When You Look At The Stars? This was the prompt a few days ago and I am just getting to it today. I love the stars. I always have. I remember as a kid just laying on the sidewalk and looking …
What is reverse dieting? Reverse dieting is a buzzword that has been getting mentioned a lot lately in the fitness space. Reverse dieting has been around for a while. The term, reverse dieting, originated from bodybuilders and physique athletes who needed a better, more healthy …
What is on your music playlist right now?
This is an interesting one. I’ve been throwing it back to Matchbox Twenty. I keep coming back to this playlist.
I have a lot of different Matchbox songs and different artists on it as well. The name of the playlist is Matchbox Twenty Mix.
I would say this group is my and John’s group. This is what we listened to all the time when we first met. We listened to it all the time and I mean all the time. It definitely reminds me of us.
Some of the songs include:
Matchbox Twenty
3AM
Push
Long Day
Back 2 Good
Stop
Kody
Unwell
Real World
Hang
Here are some other songs that are included on this playlist:
Golden Gates
Did You Say Such A Thing
Case 795
Get A Leg Up
Paper In Fire
These are all Mellencamp – my favorite.
And then it is filled out by some randoms by Better Than Ezra, Daughtry, The Fray, Kanye, and Eve 6.
It’s a good workout playlist. I don’t need the – make my ears bleed – music when I workout. This stuff is good for me.
Where do you go when you need solitude? When I was in high school, the teen angst was real. I had a thinking spot. Actually, Mary and I had a thinking spot. A solitude spot. This was the place we would go when we …
What is your favorite part about yourself? Today’s prompt. It’s easy to think something of my appearance, but I feel like there is so much more than appearance. I have been thinking about this a lot today, as I received the prompt this morning, but …
The prompt:
Write about what makes you feel strong.
I could easily say strength training. Strength training does make me feel strong. But there is more to it.
In lifting, you are in competition with yourself. The mental toughness has to be built. You have to build the foundation.
Strength doesn’t just come easy.
Strength isn’t just about lifting 100 pounds.
Spending time. Crafting your workouts. Taming your form. Putting in the effort. Finding that discipline for when you don’t ever feel like doing it. That’s where true strength is formed.
Thinking about what your body is doing while you are moving through the lifts is important. That is where true strength comes. That is where the physical and the mental collide. Your mind is strong. Your mind wants to make you quit.
It has the voice that talks to you. It has the voice that tells you you can’t do it. It has the voice that tells you you aren’t good enough. It tells you you will never be good enough.
But you keep going. You keep pushing. You keep working. You do it because YOU want to change. You do it because YOU want to overcome that mental chatter. You do it because YOU want to feel strong.
When you can keep going when you don’t feel like it, and when you can keep going because you have silenced the voices, and when you can keep going because you believe in yourself, you just won. You made yourself strong.
You are strong.
This podcast is about mentors and helpers and people with big hearts. If you’ve ever needed one or been one, you might enjoy this episode. Matt was a great one for me. He definitely helped me a lot. Thanks for listening.
The prompt: Write about a dream you remember. The dream: Over and over again. I thought it would be gone for good, only to have it reappear a few weeks or sometimes a month later. It always came back . It was always around. Hiding in …
I have a bunch of notebooks lying around. Half filled up. All filled up. Something important…at the time.
Sometimes fleeting memories, written down to memorialize a day or an event.
I found one today. A notebook. One entry. That’s it.
March 13, 2021
Almond milk latte–delicious, creamy and strong.
The sky is cloudy.
I smell river and dead fish.
The geese are noisy.
The breeze is more than I wanted.
I sip my coffee and take in the deep flavor.
The temperature gauge tells me it is 53 degrees outside. It feels colder.
Now I feel lazy and I don’t want to walk into the island and find the beach.
Another day.
Today, I sit in my car and listen to the honking of the geese and the sounds of the river.
The windows are down and the air feel damp.
Not warm enough yet.
Back home I go.
What is your favorite quote and why? That is a writing prompt from the WordPress Bloganuary prompt. It is today’s prompt, January 22, 2022. I just found out about the bloganuary thing yesterday. A little late to the party, but hey, I’m here now. I …