Want to know the hardest question you’ll have to answer in order to achieve your goals? Here’s the question: What's the big, juicy, emotional, hot-button purpose behind that goal? Ugh. Seriously? Let me guess, you’re probably thinking something like “Come on! There has to be a better question than that one.” It’s a zinger, right? If you’re like most people, you didn’t immediately have an answer for that one, did you? How do I know? Because having been a coach for almost 14 ye

Ever feel a bit overwhelmed by the many hats you have wear? Ever feel like your health just has to take a backseat to other priorities? Maybe you could use a "Health Manifesto"? QUICK BACKSTORY Nina and I sat down to write a short little ditty that captured our health philosophy. We wanted something that spoke to why we named our business TRUE Whole Human. We wanted something that spoke of the themes of being proactive, of not making health this separate thing we practice on

“Willpower is an exhaustible resource.” That was one of the best lines I picked up from the excellent book Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath. Trying to use willpower is an episode of logic, fighting with emotion. Logic is rarely ever going to win that battle. THE RIDER AND THE ELEPHANT The Heath brothers use the brilliant analogy of an elephant (emotions) and a rider (logic) to describe the internal tug of war we all go through when, for example,