Tag: Personal Improvement

  • Training Notes

    These are just some notes and interpretations from the past six months of training. If they help you, cool. If you disagree or would like to expand on anything, feel free to do that in the comments. Discussion is always welcome.   Don’t use the body to power strikes. Keep stance and body still like…

  • Time to Experiment

    Time to Experiment

    More than three weeks of eating clean and no weight lost. I am happy that my body composition appears to have changed. The casual observer (which I hope you all are) would not notice, but it seems to me that my subcutaneous fat (below the skin) is increasing and the abdominal fat is decreasing. This…

  • Americanized

    Americanized

    Have you ever hear someone use the word “Americanized” as an insult? Maybe not directly, but in an insulting way? I have, and it’s getting harder for me to keep quiet about it when it happens. Here’s why. When someone laments the “Americanization” of something, they are speaking from a culturally conservative point of view.…

  • Bulletproof Coffee – Updated

    Bulletproof Coffee – Updated

    Bulletproof Coffee…have your heard of this? I heard about it listening to The Fat Burning Man Show, a paleo podcast. He had a guest on that is into bio-hacking, or getting the most that we can from our bodies. Evidently, this guy made a bundle of cash when he was only 26 and spent a…

  • Fifty Shades of Goals

    Nothing titillating here. Just the title. Sorry. This time of year, I usually write something about goal setting, Black Belt Mind, etc. This year though I wanted to do something completely different. I want to be very open and honest and share some of my goals with you. As an exercise, I want to share…

  • From the Archives: Your Goal or Mine?

    I’m sharing some articles that I wrote for previous newsletters. I hope you like them. Your Goal or Mine? In a previous lifetime, back in the early ’90s, I was training for my Commercial Pilot’s License.  When I was just beginning the training and getting ready for my first solo, I had to test with…