How To Lose Followers

How To Overcome Conflict

Asking too much, being too assertive, holding people accountable….great ways to scare people off – how to lose followers.

The word addiction (yesterday), it isn’t a pretty word. Addiction scares people, makes them uncomfortable. Think of your favorite inspirational movie….

It involved overcoming some huge conflict. I’ve come to embrace conflict as a tool, a gift.

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Three Strikes & You’re Out!

If it were easy to quit, the word addiction wouldn’t have been invented.

This diet, losing weight, exercise and health blog is also about the less common health topics, like addiction….and will power…and support groups…and triumph!

Three strikes and you’re out. December 31, 2001 and I was up to bat….

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There Is No Third Choice

Virginia Beach 2010
Virginia Beach 2010

Denial, right? That’s what they say. Addicted people are the first to deny their addiction. To make it worse, there’s this little thing called co-dependency.

“Uncle George sure loves his beer.” “She sure can hold her liquor.” It doesn’t have to be the stereotypical homeless “bum” begging for money to go get a drink…

How can you tell? It’s either every day, or not at all. The addict has no third choice.

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Lane 8 Is…..

Lane 8 is the worst lane. It’s the lane the slowest contestant gets. Someone has to come in last. Failure, right? But what if it were in the finals, at the Olympics. Coming in last means you’re the 8th best in the entire world….

Lane 8 is your attitude & desire to get healthier and stay healthier. Right?

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Just So You Know

Biggest party night in the world? The one celebration not wrapped around religious or political agendas, that has world-wide participation?

The biggest drinking night in the history of the world? Last night, New Year’s Eve.

When making the resolution, I did something very, very purposeful, sending a shiver down my spine….

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