Gratitude. Being thankful.  Have you stopped to consider how important this might be to your fitness or coaching practice?  Think about...

Got a 'math' problem? We are obsessed with addition. In the gym we want to add more weight, more reps, more mass.  This spills over to...

Have you ever played the game Trouble?  You move your colored pegs around a board and try to get them home safe. But if someone lands on...

How was your 2024?  I hope it was blessed.  I was blessed to be able to coach our provincial team at nationals and also work with a...

Luke 2:10-11 I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to...

I just finished cross country season, so the idea of perseverance has been on my mind.  It was a successful year with my team winning the...

Motivation. What do you think when you hear that word? If like most, the idea of ‘getting after it’, ‘the grind’ and other such thoughts...

As I prepare for the next varsity track season at the university where I coach at I read an article that got me thinking. It challenged...

I was speaking with a nationally ranked athlete going through a debilitating physical issue recently which was keeping her from...

Do you struggle to say no?  Have you been here before?  People have asked for help and you said yes. Now you feel overwhelmed.  If you...

I recently read an article by Arnold Schwarzenegger that got me thinking in a spiritual context. He was talking about something I see...

If you have been reading this column for a while you will know I wrote on the theme of hope at Easter a couple of years ago. No, I have...

Are you a happy person? What do you project when you’re at the gym? If you’re like me, I put my headphones on and go into beast mode.  I...

I’m one who makes New Year’s resolutions and am quite unashamed of it. I find the chance to look back at the previous year and then look...

I’ve been thinking a lot about Christmas lately. Not surprising, right? But it’s moved in a more specific direction. What’s been on my...

This is going to be a bit of a shorter article this month but one that makes up for it by packing more of a punch. Hope is a precious...

I tend to usually write about being thankful in October since it is the month of Thanksgiving here in Canada. But I’m not. Instead, I...

Proverbs 25 tells us that “Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.” If we had more self-control...

You may have heard the Greek legend of Sisyphus, who is condemned by the gods for eternity to repeatedly roll a boulder up a hill only to...

For the first time since Covid my family and I had the opportunity to take a trip to Florida recently. On the return trip it was raining...