How to keep chipper when it's cold and miserable outside!
Oh Crikey. I've felt this way since December or so. I wake up and I have no idea what time it is. It's dark in the morning, it's dark during the day, and then Jungle Dark descends (Billy Connolly joke, 'WTF happened to twilight?)
Go Get 'em Tiger!
I was fortunate enough to shoot the breeze over exotic tea, with a good friend, talking about 'life', and this one is inspired by her. Thank you LC.
Start as you mean to go on...
I kinda have two keywords that have been in my head lately, thinking about the year ahead.
Freedom
and
Drop It.
1 Minute, 1 Month, 1 Year
I am the master of this one, so this has been a valuable learning curve for me too..
Hands up if you are a worrier! My hand is up.
Gift Vouchers...
I have gift vouchers to purchase via my website, there is a link on every page for you to find! Just look for the Paypal thingy!
Vouchers are available for 1 and 2 hour appointments.
Your future self will thank you for this...
So anyway...
Every day is a learning day.
Every day is chance to do, or do not do things differently from yesterday.
And Breathe...
Whatever you are doing, including about to read this... stop and take 5 deep breaths.
Here's what has just happened in your body, Venus (no oxygen) blood has been taken into the right side of your heart, which then fires it onto the lungs to pick up oxygen and become arterial blood (bright red), then the left side of the heart fires it all around the body.
Getting what you want, what you really really want...
This month, I have been very aware of how quickly society expects to get a reaction these days. Fast responses to text messages, emails, phone calls. Society at large has got used to everything happening immediately, and when did we start freaking out about now having a Wifi connection? Wow.
Tips for runners looking after their feet...
Foot care for me, is something that I have always done, but in the past year I've started going to see a professional to help me out and what a difference it has made. My feet are very good at giving me a warning that they are not happy during a run, and in the past I have ignored it, and pushed through, only to have to deal with the mess at the end of the race.
Why did the runner cross the road?
So, just to get right into it... I had a client in who is an experienced Marathon distance runner, anything to do with running lore, and this man has seen it, done it, got the T shirt, club tie, medal and sweatband...
In conversation he asked me if I had recently run the Ladies 10K in our fair city of Glasgow, and I said that I hadn't because I had been suffering from knee pain, and that during a run my knee was seizing up.. the conversation went thus