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Sizing Up Satisfaction
By Bahram AkradiThis issue's Satisfaction theme immediately brought to mind my favorite film, Fiddler on the Roof .
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Finding Things Right
By Pilar GerasimoI used to have this ugly little habit - something I now refer to as looking for trouble.
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Achievement Overload
By John de GraafOur obsession with the trappings of success too often eclipses our essential priorities. Are we passing this affliction on to the next generation?
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The Power of Self-Coaching
By Joseph LucianiDon't let fear, doubt and frustration hold you back. Create the satisfying, rewarding life you want by building five key personal-development skills.
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Breaking Down Stress
By Bahram AkradiWhen I was studying engineering in college, I learned that every material has a stress point.
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One Thing at a Time
By Nancy ChristieMultitasking can rob you of the one thing you need most: your life focus.
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Muck Raking
By Pilar GerasimoEvery spring, as soon as the mornings get warm enough for me to venture outside, I have this little sunrise routine: Still groggy from bed, I grab a cup of coffee and head out into the backyard.
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On Course
By Bahram AkradiOutside of establishing the vision for Life Time Fitness, and guiding the company toward it, one of the activities I enjoy most is being a pilot.
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Healthy Is as Healthy Does
By Pilar GerasimoMy first glimpse into the connection between personal health and planetary health came when I was a little kid, maybe 8 years old.
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Making Changes
By Bahram AkradiOver the past several years I've gradually been making changes in the area of green living.
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Walking My Talk
By Adriane AngaranoIt’s a funny thing. When you work for a “healthy way of life” company, people tend to presume that you do, in fact, have a healthy way of life.
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Good Work
By Bahram AkradiA few weeks back, we gathered a group of Life Time Fitness leaders for a corporate retreat and brainstorming session.
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Connecting the Dots
By Pilar GerasimoOver the three years that I’ve been editing this magazine, I’ve been developing my own little mental image of how this whole health and fitness thing works.
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The Art of the Relapse
By Cat ThompsonInstead of feeling like a failure when you fall back into old, unhealthy behaviors, consider embracing your relapses as mile markers on your route to success.
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Setting a Course
By Bahram AkradiThis time of year, a lot of us start thinking about the big changes we want to make in our lives over the course of the next 12 months.
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Happy Lessons
By Pilar GerasimoDeveloping the themes for this “Rejoice” issue, and perhaps especially this issue’s “Celebrate Your Success” feature reminded me that it’s time for my annual “stuff I learned this year” letter.
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The Art of Joy
By Cat ThompsonIt's not a rat race for money, success and achievement. The quest for true happiness has far more value – for you and everyone around you.
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Analyze This
By Pilar GerasimoNot a month goes by that I don’t hear from at least one friend or relative who says: “I had the weirdest dream last night; listen to this ...” People call me to tell me their dreams because I am, seriously, the queen of amateur dream analysis.
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Fields of Dreams
By Bahram AkradiIf you build it, he will come. That line, made legendary by the 1989 film Field of Dreams, still resonates with a lot of people. I think that's because it says everything about what we instinctively know to be true about pursuing our own dreams.
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Championing Ourselves
By Bahram AkradiWhen we think of champions, we think of people who have accomplished things beyond the bounds of accepted belief or expectation. While such feats might require tremendous strength or ingenuity, in many cases there's another underlying requirement: courage.
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Mission Possible
By Pilar GerasimoEver get to the point when you’ve read so much depressing news that your brain and heart reach some kind of maximum density and you just feel defeated by it all? I must admit that despite my usually relentless optimism, I was there last month.