A documentation of my journey to improve my life
Category: Scale My Life Blog
I’m alive! Crushed out the swim in the windiest, waviest, craziest water I’ve ever seen. But there was no going back. Thx so much to all the people that came out to support me. You guys kept me going. #BeatTheSwimChallenge #FriendInspirationCircle #PushYouLimits
Bring on the Interior Savings Across the Lake Swim!
Life…Not As Advertised Life is exciting, life is adventurous, life is spontaneous and life is trilling. Life can whisk you away to new and interesting places, or push you to do things you never thought were possible. Life is amazing, fantastic and exhilarating! …or at least that’s what we’d like our lives to be. Unfortunately the reality is that our lives are more often a pretty simple and uneventful experience. We get up, scramble to get ready, go to work,...
Stuck In A Comfort Bubble So often in life we find ourselves living in a comfortable bubble that we’ve created for ourselves. We sit wrapped in our artificial security blankets living cautiously and conservatively, assuring that we are rarely forced to step far outside of our comfort zones. This can sometimes be a nice luxury affording us a sense of security and comfort, like a good job or a nice house, but often this is the very thing that holds us back from achieving what...
This whole year has been about challenging myself to be better, striving to get more out of life and pushing myself out of my comfort zone. Whether it’s been challenging myself to be a better cook or attempting to be more mindful and more productive I’ve tried to focus my challenges on areas I knew I had personal deficiencies with in an to attempt to slowly improve my life. This months swim challenge is in some ways very different though…This is the first...
No meat, No Dairy, No Eggs, No Fun? Vegans, the most dedicated, and often most outspoken of the meatless movement. As far as I could tell these people lived, ate, slept and breathed health and animal rights, sacrificing some of life’s most guilty dietary pleasures such as pizza, ice-cream and milk chocolate. Their sacrifice and commitment in the face of the common and easy dietary lifestyle really intrigued me. Having done my research over this past month and realizing the damning correlations...
Few times in my life can I recall having been moved by something so strongly that I was immediately forced to take action. To watch or read something and then immediately have the need to know more about it or the need to call a friend just to share must mean that it had profound impact on your life. This was the feeling I had after finishing the documentary Forks Over Spoons. Before the credits were even rolling on the screen I had grabbed my...
Vegetarian Junk Food It’s 9pm and I’ve just gotten out of a meeting that ran a lot longer than I had expected. I hadn’t eaten dinner yet and my stomach was starting to churn in anger and discomfort. I knew I should probably go home and make something but I also knew that would take another 30-45 mins until I would get to eat so instead I optioned for something quick, easy and tasty. I remembered there was a pizza...
