When you decide to pursue success in an area of your life that needs improvement, you’ll face many large obstacles standing in your way. Perhaps the greatest challenge of any new journey on the path toward thriving is keeping your resolve when the results you want aren’t coming. Typically, the first few weeks of a new fitness regimen will be filled with excitement, enthusiasm, and passion. But by week 3, all you are is tired,…
This post is third in a series of six articles on how fitness benefits many other areas of your life. So far, we’ve explored the dividends that a challenging fitness regimen will pay in your productivity and your disposition. In the previous post, we noted that the improved disposition that comes with a challenging fitness regimen can have a dramatic influence on your relationship with your spouse. If you’re single though, you might have felt…
This post is second in a series of six articles on why you should care about fitness. We often don’t realize how investments in one aspect of life provide benefits not just in their own realm, but in many other areas of life as well. Be Honest Are you ever grumpy? Most of us would grudgingly answer this question in the affirmative. Even though we enjoy so many blessings, comforts, and advantages in our modern…
Today, we’ll begin a series of articles on the topic of, “why is fitness valuable?” Here at TotalThriver, we’re always working to provide you tools for how to win in all areas of life, but sometimes it’s the why that is missing between you and the person you aspire to be. Fitness is so important to thriving in life because it touches so many other areas, increasing your capabilities for success in those areas. In…
Most of us have been through the following story at some point in our lives: We resolve to “do better” with our money. That credit card company has taken advantage of us for the last time! We’re angry that we let ourselves get into such a vulnerable position and we’re angry that the credit card company hit us while we were down. So, we get out the yellow pad or the computer spreadsheet and we…