Just like in seventh-grade math class: if we don’t show our work, we don’t get full credit.

We pick out books from the library together. (Recently we were reading a selection of five-minute stories, each with a “girl power” theme.) But as we’ve been reading, I’ve noticed something that isn’t sitting well with me. 

My junior year in college at Florida I had a roommate who snoozed for an entire hour every day. One day in the fall I couldn’t take it anymore.

My college sports career was abysmal. Every single year I found myself with another injury. You’d think that at a certain point the coaches must have been shaking their heads, thinking “why are we wasting a scholarship on this kid?”

Everything in life is a skill. 

Unfortunately, as we learn skills, we don’t always learn where and when to use them.

Why we should go to the Tokyo and Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games.

There’s a lot of talk about the Olympics right now and whether sending athletes and officials there is the right thing to do, or not, for society as a whole.

100% commitment to a 50% plan beats a 50% commitment to a 100% plan. Every single time. Here’s why.

A simple strategy for shifting your mindset.

Earlier this year, feeling worn down from the pandemic and wanting to shift my energy, I did something that I still feel proud of.

Ready for it?

Okay, here it is.

If you don’t feel like “you” anymore -- Read this.

Today, I wanted to try to articulate something I’ve been noticing about the pandemic experience.  Living through a pandemic is challenging in many ways, including in ways that are a bit more “existential” in nature. For some of us, pandemic life has stripped away our external markers of identity—the things we use to make sense of who we are.

There comes a time in any big goal when it's incredibly hard. It’s the middle-to-late part when we've lost the adrenaline of the start but are too far away from the finish to count the days. We’re starting to lose our willpower and our self-control starts to waiver.

There’s actually a psychological term that touches on this. It can be called…

Most things in life that we want to accomplish, that are hard, that we're nervous about, that we're not sure if we can do, are all about having the courage to do something.

I don’t know about you but I always thought about “forgive but don’t forget” like this: that you forgive someone, but you don't quite forget, because you should hold onto the experience for risk purposes. Like, if they burned you once, they might do it again.

I'm laying here on the couch with a bag of ice on each knee, a heating pad on my back, a full bottle of water, and my phone.