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“Happiness and the J Curve” became obvious to me as an article that I ought to post here after I read about the J curve in the book Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well. (Aside: This excellent book teaches you as the receiver of feedback how to recognize different …
Congratulations to SpryFeet.com Readers Club member Tracey Braun for winning the birthday-month drawing for July, 2014. Tracey won an autographed paperback of Gratitude Power for Runners and Walkers. You could be a future winner.
Congratulations to SpryFeet.com Readers Club member Ken Clay of Clearwater, Kansas, for winning the birthday-month drawing for April, 2014! Ken won his choice of one of two autographed paperbacks: Gratitude Power for Runners and Walkers Mental Tricks for Endurance Runners and Walkers You could be a future winner.
Stop Pleasing All Marathoners (SPAM) — besides being good advice for greater happiness as an endurance runner or walker — is the new system that I had put in place to begin using today, April 1, 2014, to email everyone who visits this site. Yes, that’s right. Now that you are looking at this website, …
Happiness and a perception of no progress when it comes to marathons and half-marathons do not go together, but this perception can easily occur. Let’s look at how to overcome this perception. I ran my fifteenth marathon last month. It was the 2014 Chevron Houston Marathon. My first marathon was eleven years earlier – also …
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I hope that your 2014 is off to a happy start. I’ve been working over the Christmas holidays on finishing the first draft of a new book for runners and walkers, and I hope to share news about it with you soon. In the meantime, I’m taking a moment today to share some other happy …
Happiness and missing tiles might not seem to have anything to do with one another, but bear with me. Dennis Prager described “The Missing-Tile Syndrome” in his book Happiness Is a Serious Problem. The syndrome refers to anyone who will look at a ceiling and focus on a missing tile instead of on how the …
“SBQs are a great reason to subscribe?” “What,” you may ask, “are SBQs?” An SBQ is a “Single Biggest Question”, which is something that you may pose to me about your running or walking when you become a SpryFeet.com subscriber. You have the opportunity as a subscriber to tell me:
10,000 steps to happiness? Yes! Beyond the slow-but-sure weight loss that you can achieve by taking 10,000 steps a day, my latest book Weight Loss in 10,000 Steps a Day covers several other benefits of this level of physical activity. Celebrity trainer Bob Harper — of The Biggest Loser TV-show fame — said in a …
Social running beats solo running. “Social running” happens when family members, friends, business associates, or even all of the above get together to run. You might want to include races in those get-togethers, but let me focus on training runs for the purpose of this article. After all, even solo runners participate in races! I …