Lord of the Castle

When I was 30 years old, I wrote down several big physical goals. I achieved one of them a little over a year ago! I only have 11 weeks to reach my second big one… I want to be 12% bodyfat when I am 50 years old. Let’s just say that I am not there so I need to [...]

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I won!!! I won!!! I won!!! About four months ago, my oldest daughter started her own blog. I pretended that I was interested and actually went to it and read what she had written. I told you about that I was hit with an  unexpected wave of insecurity when I saw how hip, how modern her blog [...]

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Last week, before the mid-week church service began, the pastor walked up to me while I was typing on my computer. “What are you doing?” “Writing a post for my blog.” “Can you e-mail me the link. I’d like to read it.” “Sure.” Well, that little conversation has been haunting me ever since… “I can’t [...]

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I had a VERY exciting weekend! No, I didn’t go anywhere special… No, didn’t buy anything expensive. (I did whip up a little of my old magic and buy 5 books for $6.50! I love when that happens!) So, what was so exciting about this weekend? It all started on Saturday morning. I didn’t have [...]

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I thought I should talk about goals today… Well, really about setbacks… I started taking my first steps toward my physical goals this week. I have told you that I have worked out an exercise schedule that is short and varied. Well, you already know that I missed my workout on Monday. On Tuesday, I [...]

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Everything was going so well when I went to bed last night… My goals were loaded into my new jazzy software. I was going to bed on time. In just a few short hours, I would wake up, do some exercise and check off my first completed task of 2010! However, there was a problem [...]

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It didn’t snow today…but it is still foggy and cold. So, I decided to stay inside and work on my goals today! Doesn’t THAT sound EXCITING, boys and girls? I have been writing about goals on this blog off and on for the past two weeks. However, I needed to spend some time figuring out what [...]

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The cold weather has broken. The snow is melting. The four foot pile of snow at the bottom of the stairs has shrunk to three feet. Anyway, as I was saying until the weather so rudely hijacked this blog… Zig Ziglar says that when you set a goal, you go from being a wandering generality [...]

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Nearly thirty years ago, I bought a tape series by Zig Ziglar on setting goals. It changed my life. One of his best insights is that we shouldn’t just have one or two goals. We should have goals in every area of life. For instance, if my only goal is to climb the corporate ladder [...]

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For a goal to be good, it has to be meaningful. Take for instance my goal of trying to get and stay in shape. Do I really want to do that or is that just something that I am “supposed” to do? I really want to do it… Two years ago I began exercising and lost [...]

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