Category Archives: Motivation

What’s your secret?

I recently lost 25 pounds in just 2 months.  And if you did the same, your friends would ask you “What’s your secret?”  For me the secret was NOT a magical diet or exercise plan.  It was not a fitness coach or state-of-the-art infommercial contraption.  It was not a body-altering or mind-altering drug.   It…

You goaded me into it

I think Goad is a funny last name.  Like many last names, it probably originated with the occupation of my ancestors.  If you look it up, you’ll see that the goad was a sharp stick used to prod reluctant oxen or sheep.  So my Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather may have been a farmer,…