starfish

Musings Part II The Retelling of An Old Story

“The noblest question in the world is, what good may I do in it?” -Benjamin Franklin There is an old story that is often told.  It is about a boy (or an old man, depending on the version you’ve heard) and he is walking along the beach.  The beach is strewn with thousands of starfish which [...]

ladder discipline

Musings

“All of us are self-made, but only the successful are willing to admit it.” Earl Nightingale I am a disciplined person but it hasn’t always been that way.  As a teenager and young adult I was very undisciplined.  I’ll spare everyone the details, but trust me, disciplined would not have been the word to describe [...]

skewers

Eat to Lose Weight

“He who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking will never accomplish anything.” Martin Luther If you want to banish belly fat, you’ve got to do something fairly counter intuitive: eat. Research shows that dieting too intensely or tracking every morsel too closely creates the perfect conditions for adding belly fat, not subtracting it. A [...]