Tag: #kindness

  • Personal Check-In

    “Why ever hurry?Even water takes its timeflowing down the drain.” —Michael Chernin We’re kicking off the 6th week of the year and it’s time for a personal check-in. Are you giving yourself the patience you deserve? Are you allowing yourself the room that you need to actually grow and accomplish your goals? There’s no hurry…

  • Separating Training and Therapy

    The gym is a great place to improve your mental health. Many people go to the gym and workout with that in mind. However, trainers and gyms are not rehabilitation centers or the solution for all mental health problems. There are issues that no number of squats and deadlifts can resolve. Often, trainers find themselves…

  • Lending Kindness

    “This planet has—or rather had—a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it…

  • The Value Of A Smile At Christmas

    This is an excerpt from How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. While it’s geared towards those in sales or those working during the holidays, its value can be applied by anyone at any time. ‘The Value of a Smile at Christmas’ It costs nothing but creates much. It enriches those who…

  • Friendship

    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” —C.S. Lewis We’ve all got them… friends who have been with us through thick and thin, in our lives longer than we can remember, and have forgotten more random facts about…

  • When Was The Last Time…

    “Having spent many years trying to define the essentials of trust, I arrived at the position that if two people could say two things to each other and mean them, then there was the basis for real trust. The two things were ‘I mean you no harm’ and ‘I seek your greatest good.’” —Jim Meehan…

  • In A World That Demands More…

    “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” —Howard Thurman In a world that demands more and more of your time, attention, and energy, it can be hard to find the “thing” that makes you tick.…

  • At The End Of Everyday…

    “I just spend my time approaching things benevolently. Love each other, help each other, take care of each other. Hold no grudges. Benevolence. Teach, learn, and enable. It’s really just love. Love and non-judgement and do the best thing you can every day.”—Todd Pesek I don’t think I could have said it any better myself……

  • Our Gym Was Founded…

    “The most amazing gift you can give someone is to believe in them and to meet them where they are. When you do that, they begin to trust, they begin to break down walls and to transform into the greatest version of themselves.” -Kelly Anctil, former client Our gym was founded on some very fundamental…