by Brett Blumenthal
A few weeks ago, I wrote about getting a jump start on your New Year’s Resolution.  I asked you to share what your goals are for the upcoming year and hoped to start a dialogue around how to reach those goals.  Whether or not you read the entry, you may have been thinking [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
I don’t watch much reality TV.  That said, I am absolutely addicted to Dancing with the Stars (DWTS).  In my mind, DWTS is not really a Reality TV show as much as it is a talent show. And what makes it really interesting is that it is a talent show with contestants who [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
Most years, I come up with my New Year’s resolutions on…well…New Year’s Eve.  This year, I’ve changed my ways and am getting a jump start!  No more last minute ideas!  I have lots o’ planning to do!
Generally, my New Year’s resolutions run the gamut of addressing various aspects of my life:  health, career,  self-improvement,  relationships, community and the environment.  [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
The other day, a friend of mine told me about a recent visit to an acupuncturist.  He felt that the experience was completely life changing: the excruciating back pain he had been experiencing, somehow vanished for a full three days.  He became a true believer and was in the midst of seriously considering [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
Yesterday, my friend Lindsay and I discussed her new found love of Kettlebell classes. Her love for these classes are rooted in the mere fact that they ‘kick her butt.’  Kettlebells are traditional Russian cast iron weights that look like cannonballs with handles and they are used for total body conditioning workouts. [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
This morning, as my husband Dave and I were driving to work, we heard a radio commercial for an internet company that promised consumers, none other, than an affair.  No…honestly.  Ashleymadison.com is a website that is much like ‘Match.com’ or ‘eHarmony.com’, except for married people.  The title of this blog: ‘Life is Short. [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
No, seriously…I really do.  I have an overwhelming need to take a break from life in an exotic place, where all my cares melt away…pina colada in hand…surf lapping up on the sand…sun beating down on my worn out body.  Mmmm…I can imagine it now.  This isn’t the normal ‘I need a vacation’ feeling, this [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
Growing up, I always found something to not like about myself.  I still do.  For instance, I have always had what my mother lovingly refers to as a ‘regal’ profile.  Regal, in my mind, was always a nice way of saying big.  I’m not going to run out and chop off my nose, but it is [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
Usually when I go to the gym, I stay in my own world during my workout.  I tend to tune out those around me and focus on what I’m trying to accomplish.  Today, however, the gym was relatively empty, except for a woman and her personal trainer.  It was particularly difficult to tune [...]

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by Brett Blumenthal
Depending on where you live, you may not have had much of a summer.  In the Northeast, we have had so much rain and dreary, cold days, that many of us feel robbed and can’t believe we are in the throws of honest to goodness Fall.  It just doesn’t feel right that the leaves [...]

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