Never make a resolution you don’t intend to keep I don’t make more than one or two resolutions at a time. It is too many to keep. A resolution is a firm decision to do or not to do something. I made two resolutions for 2009 – to jog an average of 32km per week (20 miles) and not eat a certain type of junk food. The only thing that will stop me from achieving my jogging goal is injury and nothing will make me break the junk...

Today was my first day at the gym for 2009, but I arrived 15 minutes late, to the jibes of my three workout partners. For all of us, it was our first day back to the gym since before Christmas. They assumed I had slept in, as my hair was ruffled and I looked a bit of a mess. In fact, I’d already been up for a while. The reason I looked like I’d just got out of bed was because I’d done a 10km jog before driving to the gym with...

Here is a great quote attributed to Henry Ford: “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you are usually right.” For me, it’s another way of saying, you get what you believe. If you believe you can do something, you may not achieve it, but you will certainly get a lot closer to achieving it than you would if you didn’t go for it. Likewise, if you think you can’t do something – then you won’t....

I was in the mall the other day at a record store. A young teen was trying to decide what to get with his $50 store gift voucher he’s been given him for Christmas. He was looking at all the DVDs and CDs as far as the eye could see and getting more and more frustrated trying to pick what to buy. He said to me, ‘It is a record store – you’d think I could just get an iTunes card but they don’t sell them. Why...

We’re in for another scorching summer day, so I was out for my jog in the cool morning air. I must admit that it was very difficult getting up at 5:30am and I lay in till 6. I took it very easy today, after shin splint pain yesterday. I walked for a few kilometres and jogged for 8km, practicing rolling my feet and being very conscious of making my running style as smooth as possible so as not to aggravate the injury. It seems to have...