36. Five-Minute Focus: How to Break Out of the Cycle of Perfection

No matter how consistent you are with your habits, it is inevitable that life will interrupt you at some point. It will get in the way of perfection. The more you try to make things go perfectly, the more they won’t.
35. Five-Minute Focus: Two Easy Ways to Give Yourself More Energy

When you think about life we have to remember that we rely on energy. We use it everyday. It is the fuel for each of our gas tanks. Energy is the strength and vitality required for sustained physical and mental activity.
34. Five-Minute Focus: How to Create a Clear Vision for Life, Especially Now

If there’s no destination, there’s no path to get there, and no need for strategy or goals. When you have a clear vision, you will eventually find the right strategy to arrive where you want to go. A vision is fixed, but the strategies flex depending on the circumstances. And who hasn’t had to flex lately?
33. Five-Minute Focus: What To Do When Everything Changes

Whether you know it or don’t know it at the time, we all experience triggering events. A trigger event is a particular situation that prompts your life to be different. It is a situation that evokes learning, growth and hopeful improvement. The positive from trigger events is that they force you to show up differently.
32. Five-Minute Focus: When You Fail Do You Set Yourself Back Up For Success?

Today we discuss the five phases to the Cycle of Success. A cycle NOT a journey. During a journey, you can pass something and never come back to it. When you move through a cycle, the phases are continually repeated.
31. Five-Minute Focus: Change Your Life to Change The World

Have you ever heard the phrase: life isn’t fair? I think we all have. But do you remember the second half that’s often left out? It is this: the sooner you learn that life isn’t fair; the better off your life will be.
30. Five-Minute Focus: The Self-Talk that Can Change Everything

The role you have is chance an opportunity. You get to fill that role. The life you have is chance. An opportunity. You get to live.
29. Five-Minute Focus: Are You Living Out Your Passion?

Passion can really be anything that simultaneously challenges you, intrigues you, and motivates you. It is what makes your heart sing and it puts you to work
28. Five-Minute Focus: How to Not Ignore the Opportunities in Your Life

What great opportunities do you have right now that are disguised as impossible situations? How can you speed up (not slow down) and take advantage of these opportunities?
27. How Pilates Can Help You Move Better

Pilates originated as rehabilitation for injured soldiers following WW2, and today is an effective practice for movement following injuries. Jeff and Rachael talk with Sarah Hughes, Pilates instructor, about the basics of Pilates, how it differs from yoga, and how to find a studio and instructor that works for you.