Category: Inspiration
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If exercise were a pill….tired cliché but also true
by Jay Hiller, December 6, 2022 Photo by Marc Najera on Unsplash I considered being lazy tonight and just posting an “If exercise were a pill…” quote. I tried looking it up and it turns out there were a lot of variations of it. There’s no doubt that exercise is very very good for us.…
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Thirty-second cold showers
by Jay Hiller, November 22, 2022 Photo by Chandler Cruttenden on Unsplash Cold showers are easy to take in the summer, especially in Austin. I started doing them two summers ago, when I read about the benefits. They create a state of temporary stress that turns on your longevity genes. I also got a little…
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Are you just afraid?
Jay Hiller, November 21, 2022 Our biggest obstacles can be our own thoughts. For me anyway, many times this is fear based. If I take a chance I could get hurt. If I try this, it probably won’t work. It’s so easy to build yourself a nice little box that’s comfortable and doesn’t challenge you.…
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The Right Story
by Jay Hiller, November 20, 2022 Photo by Max Saeling on Unsplash A book I’ve been looking forward to reading, Death by Comfort by Paul Taylor, arrived in the mail today. It opens with this quote: “You’re okay the way you are” is not the right story. The right story “You’re way less than you…
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Hard choices make you grow
by Jay Hiller, November 12, 2022 Photo by Ales Maze on Unsplash In January someone asked me to facilitate an electronic course that had been created and taught by a friend who had recently passed away. It was an intimidating suggestion. Agreeing meant spending a significant amount of time making sure I understood the course…
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Busy Day 9 minute workout
by Jay Hiller, October 26, 2022 It has been one busy day. After working my regular job and teaching a yoga class, I finished work on a contract job around 8:30 and realized that I hadn’t really exercised yet. (By the way, I realize on a 1-10 scale of hardship this gets like a 0.25.…
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A good yoga book, ginger tea and monarch butterflies
by Jay Hiller, October 21, 2022 Monarch butterflies and ginger tea Monarch butterflies and ginger tea are my favorite things today. I’m thrilled to see so many monarchs in my yard. And ginger tea is helping me with the congestion that’s been bugging me this week. It’s a complex recipe–take a plug of ginger and…
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Are human beings hard wired to be near water? Wallace J. Nichols thinks so
by Jay Hiller, October 10, 2022 Every Sunday I teach a SUP yoga class on Lake Austin. Teaching the class is fun, for sure, but my favorite part is the 15 minutes or so I have to myself paddling the big float out to the buoy we anchor it too. My boss says it’s the…
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Next little challenge
by Jay Hiller, October 6, 2022 Is it really only Wednesday? You can change your location but you can’t change that there’s always going to be frustrations and personalities. I’m trying to accept that without falling into a state of inaction. Fortunately, work takes a lot of time but it’s not the only part of…
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It was Legs Day and I shoulda had a quitting time
by Jay Hiller, October 4, 2022 Last week, at worky-work I told a younger colleague that he needed to have a quitting time or he was going to burn out. Tonight it took me 90+ minutes to get through an hour work out because I couldn’t leave worky-work alone. I needed a quitting time. Normally,…