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Take Care of Your Mind because it Will Outlast Your Body

There are a lot of reasons I think that we should train both the mind and the body but this is one I have had brought to my attention recently. I’ve been sick for the past few weeks and haven’t been able to train my body as much as I’d like to so instead I’ve been focusing on training my mind. I’ve realized that as I get older my mind will still be there but my body will start to fail. I’ve…

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#body #mental health #mind #Workout

Take a Moment to Think

Critical thinking is something lacking in society as a whole. Examining ideas, thoughts, news and opinions before formulating your own is nearly unheard of. One of the great tragedies of thought is that there is so little of it. People are so quick to jump to a knee-jerk reaction instead of examining the ideas in front of them. We are in a world that allows for some of the easiest…

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#mind #motivation #opinion

Make it Fun or You Will Quit

Make working out enjoyable otherwise it becomes just another job you have to do. Seems pretty simple and non-groundbreaking advice but you would be surprised how often it is not followed. If what you are doing is not fun you will eventually quit. It applies to most things in life that are optional and even to some things that are required. If you don’t enjoy your job chances are that you are…

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#fitness #lifting #motivation #racing #running #Workout

Book Recommendation: A Little Life

If there is one book that I have read this year that I think everyone should read it’s A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. It is a beautiful novel. It is a disturbing novel. It is a novel that showcases millennials and it is a book that really feels like a modern classic. It is one of those rare books where I found myself thinking about it between readings. I was excited to pick it up and…

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#book reviews #books #literature #mental health #mind #reading

10 Ways Reading Builds the Mind

Something I touch on a lot here is my love for reading as well as writing. I talk about how I believe reading to be one of the more important things you can do to build your mind. I talk about reading like mental exercise. Only it’s not as demanding as exercise, it’s what everyone wants exercise to be, something you enjoy but is also good for you. Reading is the mental version of finding the…

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#books #mind #reading

Plan

As part of me spinning my wheels I have decided to come up with a plan. It is not complicated but I think it will be part of my shifting into reverse. The only way to get unstuck is to move, if I sit for too long I won’t get any worse but I won’t get any better either. Part of feeling so stuck is because of this blog and my bookstore. The few people that read what I post here on the regular…

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#mind #personal

Spinning My Wheels

Do you ever feel like no matter how hard you push, how much you keep trying, you still end up getting nowhere? I’m sure everyone has felt this way at some point and that’s how I feel now. I’ve been trying so hard for so long to get out of where I am and I still feel like I’m in the same spot. I feel like a car stuck in the mud, flooring the gas and only getting deeper. I know this is only a…

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#personal

Everything Will Suck Sometimes

I was chatting with a friend the other day and we got on the topic of our jobs. I am not a fan of my job, it’s not that I hate the work it’s that I hate having a job. Having to work where I work and in the type of job I work was never in my life plan. I wanted to join the military and when that fell through (due to failure on a medical exam) I didn’t know what else to do. Sure the dreams of…

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#mental health #mind #opinion

What is a Reset? Why You Might Need One

What is a Reset? Why You Might Need One #motivation

Sometimes in fitness, in reading, in writing, in life, we need to reset. Like a computer that has been running constantly, installing new programs, new updates and upgrades, sometimes we need to shut down for a minute in order to restart stronger than before. A reset is something obvious when explained but is still something that not enough of us practice (until we are forced to). A reset is…

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Dancing Alone

I’m afraid it’s all for nothing. The last words she said to him. Followed him around. Hung in the air behind him, building him a cloud for him to brood under. There she was, dancing alone. So long ago. Looking into the crowd, the empty faces staring, blurring into nothing. There she was, moving in the light, dress shifting and shimmying around her. Scared of rejection, scared of being…

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#reading #Story

Going off Trail

Hiking trails is great. A good trail is designed to take the hiker through the most scenic parts of that particular wilderness while being safe and sticking to a standard of difficulty that allows for proper planning. All of my overnight hikes have been on trails, but there is something to be said for going off trail. I’m sure there is a metaphor in there somewhere about going against the crowd…

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#backpacker #backpacking #camping #hiking

Embrace the Down Times

I don’t know if this is true for everyone but I know it is for me. I’ll be clipping along, doing great, and then things just pile up. I fall into a depressed rut. There is a long list of things for me to grasp onto, things that bring me down, but sometimes you just have one of those days. A day where nothing goes right, and sometimes you have a bunch of these days back to back. Add in a…

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#mental health #mind #motivation

30 Minute Workout

I have been strapped for time lately, with the store, the blog, my books and other miscellaneous projects and hobbies. Time has been at a premium for me lately. Add in working full time and things get harder and harder to balance. I found I was skipping workouts because I had so much to do, something I hate. That was why I decided to try a 30 minute workout plan, at least until things calm…

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#body #fitness #motivation

Triage your Life

In a medical setting you are taught how to triage and what that means. It boils down to treating those who have the highest chance of survival first. It is a matter of assessing patients and bouncing between the ones you can save and leaving the ones who have no chance. Triage can be brutal and is born of necessity, sometimes there just are not enough resources to treat every person. This can…

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Shout Out Sunday – Some Good Reads From Other Blogs

My Friday Blog Always a good read, this is a post by Josh about people reading too much into his fiction. Always good for a laugh and always touching on good topics. Those who write fiction often have to deal with people reading a little too much into what they write, with people thinking stories or characters are about real events. Take a look (the rest of his blog is a good romp too if you…

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#reading

He’s My Brother

I remember when we were kids we would play along the cliff. I remember running along the edge trying to get as close to falling as I could without chickening out. I could never get as close as Dale though, he would run along the razor lip of the cliff daring gravity to pull him down. I guess he didn’t have a fear of death, not even then. The funeral was yesterday. I don’t know what else to…

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#Story #writing

Introduction

The first post, the most important post, the post that sets the tone. So here we go. Let me introduce myself. My name is Craig Hole and I am an author, an avid reader and an athlete constantly striving to be better. I believe that being physically fit is only half the battle to achieving a healthy state, we need to work our minds out as well. I am passionate about reading and writing as well…

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#Intro #racing #reading #writing

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