Year: 2012

The playground of our youth was a training ground The playground of our youth was a training ground. What did you learn? Myriad things. Did you stop playground activities? You can continue what those playground-esque activities did for you when you were a child. Brain growth in fun and easy ways. Playings of your own… Continue reading The playground of our youth was a training ground

Make being healthy one of your hobbies healthy hobbies It certainly will be something that serves you well throughout your life. Make it fun. Study and learn as much as you can about what modern science and research says contributes to living a long healthy life. Devise a plan that is yours; then follow it.… Continue reading Make being healthy one of your hobbies healthy hobbies

If you want to learn something physical learn to play If you want to learn something physical that is difficult; practice often and quit hungry for the experience. Practice for brief periods of time. Do not practice when you are tired and when you begin to make mistakes quit your practice. Imagine a golden thread… Continue reading If you want to learn something physical learn to play

Do not wish for anything I was 16 years old, it was a gloriously beautiful summer day in Sioux City, Iowa. The year was 1957. My buddy Paul Cabney and I were standing in a glass box about 8 feet in the air in the center of Paul’s father’s used car lot. From our vantage… Continue reading Do not wish for anything

It certainly will be something that serves you well throughout your life. Make it fun. Study and learn as much as you can about what modern science and research says contributes to living a long healthy life. Devise a plan that is yours; then follow it. Get excited about living a vibrant healthy life; it… Continue reading Make being healthy one of your hobbies

If you want to learn something” If you want to learn something physical that is difficult; practice often and quit hungry for the experience. Practice for brief periods of time. Do not practice when you are tired and when you begin to make mistakes quit your practice. Imagine a golden thread fastened to the center… Continue reading If you want to learn something

Avoid the magical orientation to life.” What is magic? To me magic is what the magician does–the magician would have us believe that there can be reality without process. There are no scarves up his or her sleeve that they did not put there. No rabbits in hats that the magician did not put there.… Continue reading Avoid the magical orientation to life.

Spend your life on the playground” For me the concept of playground includes the following: physical activity, lots of physical activity, a wide variety of physical activity and movement, my socialization in part, girlfriends, boyfriends, balls of various shapes and sizes, slides, merry go rounds, swings, monkey bars, jump rope, Jacks, hopscotch, gaiety, laughter, Inventing… Continue reading Spend your life on the playground

head> Stephen Jepson says: “quit hungry for the experience” If you want to learn something physical that is difficult; practice often and quit hungry for the experience. Practice for brief periods of time. Do not practice when you are tired and when you begin to make mistakes quit your practice. Imagine a golden thread fastened… Continue reading Stephen Jepson says: “quit hungry for the experience”