New year, new outlook. Stephen Covey, one of the most prolific leadership authors of our time, says there are six things you can do right now to make 2012 your best year ever: Be proactive. It’s more than just taking initiative. It means being responsible for your own life.  Empower yourself to lead and spread [...]

Thanksgiving is a special time of year.  Getting together with family, friends and co-workers to give thanks to all that we have means so much, and makes me realize that I’m fortunate for all that I have in my life.  From a career that I love to a family that means the world to me, I [...]

It’s Day 3 and I’m starting to feel more confident in my abilities to stick with the plan.  My schedule called for a cardio workout, so I put in 40 minutes of HIIT on the elliptical machine at the gym.  It felt great and was even better as the University of Michigan was beating Nebraska [...]

Today, I woke up with an awesome attitude!  I knew that I would be on target all day, whether it’s my workouts or my nutrition.  Here is what I ate: 8:30 am: Chocolate Protein Shake 11:30 am: Chicken Breast and Hummus 2:30 pm: Shrimp Cervace & Pop Chips 5:30 pm: Pesto Fussili 8:30 pm: Sweet [...]

Regardless of how intense (and well planned and executed) my workouts are, it will all be for not if I do not eat right.  That includes the types of foods I eat, the quantities and the times.  In fact, that will determine whether these next 7 weeks are the start of something special… or a dud. [...]

As I sit here on my sofa visualizing the actions / activities over the next 49 days, I’m filled with both excitement and fear… which is a little strange to me, but not something that I haven’t experienced before.  It’s because I know that I’ll have to work hard at this, but at the same [...]

It’s Day 50 in this journey and I (once again) hit the gym with gusto!  While my older son “experienced” his first training session (he’ll feel it tomorrow!), my younger son and I did a variety of exercises, including recumbant bike, elliptical training, and rowing (by far the most challenging).  We threw in some bicep [...]