Category: Health Is Wealth

The streets of Lahti, Finland, 2009.

Are you getting this? The whole notion that excuses abound, and courage does not? It often makes me sick to my stomach when people write self-help blogs and we never hear their story?

Tell us your story man. Don’t tell us about some amazing person doing some incredibly inspiring endeavor. That’s everywhere. We need those, and love those.

But if you’re like me, you want to hear it from a different angle. Someplace with a real person, ordinary and average, whose story will never be on the evening news. And whose story sounds like a friend we know.

Next Blog

We learned all the basics in school. Right?

A desire to be well, to keep it simple and stick to the basics kept ringing in one ear. But in the other, a voice, “What could you do if you had 7 months?

Could you make a comeback and be ready by Nationals?

Depending on our life experiences, we’ve been taught (or not) that nothing is impossible. The place I call home and a 27-year career at Disney, have developed a nearly insatiable habit to pursue excellence.

So that’s what happened. The journey began – starting with physical therapy.

Next Blog

Ice crystals forming in Iowa ditch, April 2011.

Did I feel like going out in the freezing weather at sunrise to run? Uh, nope.

Note: Read this one carefully.

It’s interesting how opportunities are placed before us when we least expect them. This counter balances those unexpected curve balls life throws at us.

But if we’re not paying attention (par for the course), we remain clueless. This leads us back to something Lane 8 has always been about – having a reason, other than yourself, to get and stay healthy.

Remember?

Next Blog

Ok, so I ripped the other hamstring. Something I swore (promised even) would never happen again. What an idiot!

Have you ever failed so miserably that you embarrassed yourself?

The good news? It was January. Still time?

Were you able to find an opportunity hidden under your embarrassing failure?

Next Blog