Inspiration & Motivation

Make the Choice to Age Well

May 17, 2012

With all the fad diets and exercise information, you’d think everyone would be in terrific shape. But we’re not. Many people make excuses for why they are not in shape. Genetics. Strange ailments that prevent them from doing anything. They hate exercise. Whatever. I traveled to Mexico for over a month and what I saw [...]

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How and Why to Reform Your Eating and Drinking Habits

May 2, 2012

One way of looking at habits is that they are repeated actions that get executed unconsciously. In this post I’m addressing eating and drinking habits. What you eat and drink is extremely important. Reforming your eating and drinking habits creates real health transformations occur. Habits Gone Awry The other day, I noticed someone with a [...]

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March Stats: 7 Workouts – 4.43 hours total workout time

April 1, 2012

If you’re someone who has frequently used the time excuse to keep yourself from getting a workout, take a look at the stats above. That’s 7 workouts in the month of March and only four and a half hours. Some people spend that much time in a week exercising. Or maybe they’re exorcising… In case [...]

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Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues

March 21, 2012

As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other…I concluded at length that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous was not sufficient to prevent our slipping, and that the [...]

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The Introspection Technique

March 1, 2012

It is tempting to get caught up in looking at others, gossiping about them, being jealous, thinking they don’t work hard enough, that they don’t take care of themselves, or what have you. A poem on one of my grandpa’s bookmark said it all in the first stanza: Instead of watching folks go by, Turn [...]

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Jacque Fresco – Successful Ager and Founder of The Venus Project

February 8, 2012

New to Working Man Fitness? This website is all about taking control of our minds, eliminating addictions, and living a healthy and fit lifestyle—so you can end up like Jacque . Check out the Getting Started with Exercise Guide and the Overcoming Addictions Guide—two great places to get started. Jacque Fresco. The guy is almost [...]

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A Great Example for How to Live Well Into Old Age

February 7, 2012

A few months ago, I interviewed a man by the name of Mike DiCerbo. It’s likely you haven’t heard of him, until now. I met Mike in 2007 when I joined the Scottsdalian Toastmasters club. He immediately impressed me as someone with an iron will and a sure sense of who he was. I interviewed [...]

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Suggestion: Remove Clutter from Your Thoughts

February 2, 2012

“It is necessary that we release all thoughts—as well as things—that clutter up our lives.” – Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind My wife used to drive me nuts with always putting things away. She didn’t like the clutter, she said. It drove her nuts. TV remotes, coasters, keys, wallets, movies, everything has its spot. [...]

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Ip Man Movie

January 28, 2012
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The other day I was browsing Netflix movies and one by the name of Ip Man caught my eye. I guessed correctly that Ip Man was referring to a person who I had always known as Yip Man—Bruce Lee’s martial arts instructor. Full disclosure: I’ve never studied Yip Man’s life. Knowing full well that biographical [...]

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Work and Play

September 21, 2011

Work and play is a choice that each of us face everyday. We need to constantly remind ourselves what we’re doing, what our purpose is for the action we’re taking, and whether or not we’ll regret that we didn’t take full advantage of the moment when we had it. The following was written in the [...]

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