New Years Resolutions

Embrace Your Best You by Forgetting About New Year’s Resolutions! Note: For 2013 I will be blogging on the Athleta Chi site and sharing those posts here as well. Either spot is excellent but on the Athleta site you can shop after you are done reading. Efficient . A New Year’s resolution (NYR) is generally viewed as an advantageous commitment, goal, or habit change that we embark on at the start of a new year. Our chosen change up can be considered a one-time new beginning or an opportunity to say goodbye to a habit that isn’t serving us. We also tend to view the NYR as something ‘special,’ that perhaps we can’t or won’t tackle unless an occasion like the [...]

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13 Thoughts I’ll Bring into 2013

I used to dislike getting the “this is what we’ve been up to this past year” letters in Christmas cards. Not because I didn’t want to hear what people are up to, I do, but more so because they all seemed to focus on peoples kids rather than what was in the thoughts of the person actually sending the card. For reasons I completely get, the focus seems skewed. If a good friend is sending me a ‘year in review’ letter, I want to hear whats up with the friend specifically. How is he/she doing? What are their current challenges and joys. This is such an excellent platform to learn from each other and connect. So when I send out [...]

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What Matters in Our Community

The first Expedition Bhutan: Experience ‘What Matters’ presentation is on, April 27, 6:30 PM, 1818 Felt Street in Santa Cruz. This wine social and silent auction will be inclusive of presentations by me and the founders of the Music of Bhutan Research Center. Come and meet the Expedition Team as well as the director of our expedition film and see a teaser of the film! Our hosts will be the Santa Cruz Triathlon Association (SCTA)— and our efforts are about raising funds for people in Bhutan and in our own community to help them participate in sport. You can get tickets to this exciting evening on active.com. See the below info poster for more details. For the weeks leading into this local community [...]

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The Memorable Pork Chop

Its been a while! Since I opted to share our Expedition Bhutan journey on our expedition blog as well as through the amazing company, Athleta, I’ve been remiss on my own blog. I’ve also been formulating a plan as to how I’ll be sharing our journey in Bhutan—stay tuned for that info! For now, I’m psyched that I’m jumping back in here via a prompt from a good friend—and a memorable pork chop. Athlete exraordinare and great buddy, Marshall Ulrich just posted some dialog on the vegan diet for athletes, which initiated great sharing on this topic. [To put my thoughts into full context read Marshall’s blog first] I wanted to chime in on Marshall’s statements along the lines of; [...]

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Expedition Bhutan Coverage – Join Us!

Starting November 5th, I’m leading an expedition to cross the country of Bhutan trekking and mountain biking. We are combining high adventure with cultural inquiry while examining the question with the Bhutanese people – “What Matters”. We’re also co-hosting a TEDx Talks in Thimphu Bhutan and making a documentary film of our journey and discovery. We’d like you to come along! Follow our expedition via SPOT Tracker and blog posts on 3 different websites; our ExpeditionBhutan.com website, Discovery.com and Athleta.com as well as our Facebook wall. You can find all this info compiled at our website Coverage page - . We’ll be posting every several days or so via satellite feeds, so check back frequently to see what we’re up to. I WILL NOT [...]

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Hungry and Foolish

Steve Jobs offered these final words of enlightenment at his commencement speech to the Stanford class of 2005—“Stay hungry and stay foolish”. Thanks for the poignant words to live (and die) by, Steve. And thanks for my gorgeous MacBook Air we’ll be using in remote Bhutan to upload satellite feeds of our journey. We’re on it.

Logistics are in place with our gracious hosts the Bhutan Olympic Committee, our 4-person Film Team is finalizing gear, TEDxThimphu is set for November 14, and we have a full contingent of guest Trekkers who will be joining us for “the inquiry” on the first leg of our journey through the northwest—including Emmy Award winning Imogen Heap. ‘The Lovely Hunger’ has been our driving force for this massive project—let the foolishness begin!

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