(Parts  1   2   3   4  5   6    7   8   9  10 and 11) Let's talk about juggling.  Juggling is the sort of thing that is learned in stages:  one object at a time.   First you learn to handl...

(Parts  1   2   3   4  5   6    7   8   9  and 10) I posted number 10, "Use your imagination," just yesterday, and really, I think if you haven't read it first, you should go read it, and maybe give yourself ...

(Parts  1   2   3   4  5   6    7   8  and 9) Begin with the thought experiment I alluded to in post #9 about motivation.  Imagine a person who is not you, but who is like you in many ways:  the same age and gender, the sa...

(Parts  1   2   3   4  5   6    7  and 8) Before you make a plan (and more on those details later), you need some good reasons to keep you going.  Why make it a priority to get regular exercise at all? Obviously, there are lots of reasons (...

(Parts  1   2   3   4  5   6  and 7 ) How did I learn to put personal exercise -- for me -- at the top of the priority list, and keep it there, for a year? I learned by putting my (generally very fit) husband's personal exercise at the top of the priorit...

I will write more about what it means to have exercise at the top of the priority list in another post.  For now, let's talk about discernment. A couple of days ago I posted about a particularly insidious barrier to prioritizing exercise for health:  it can seem like a self-indulgenc...

Pride, avarice, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth: sometimes it feels as if Britain is in the grip of the seven deadly sins. There are arrogant politicians, greedy bankers, lecherous television presenters, furious trade unionists, obese children, competitive shoppers and an underclass of people ...

(Parts  1   2   3   4 ) Two quotes from my previous post: 1.  "If getting enough exercise to meet your own adult body's needs never becomes a high priority, you will rarely if ever do it." 2.  "With getting more exercise, one must take MORE for ...

(Parts 1 2 3) Imagine you are single.  You are, in this scenario, a not-terribly-fit person who gets some exercise --- once in a while---and enjoys it somewhat. Now imagine you get married, to a very fit, very active person who exercises vigorously most days and enjoys several strenuous sports...

(Part 1) By now I've written a great deal about my forty-odd-pound weight loss and my struggle to conquer gluttony---what I called my diet of "not eating so damn much."  (see the categories Weight loss, Weight maintenance, Gluttony.)  I have written only a very little, so f...