Tag: self-efficacy
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Physical confidence
By Jay Hiller, September 2, 2023 Photo by sydney Rae on Unsplash When I’d only be doing yoga a few years, I went to a class where I was given this instruction for Warrior I: “You know, mmmmmmmm.” I didn’t know what that was supposed to mean, and when I thought about that instruction, I…
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Exercise and optimism
by Jay Hiller, August 31, 2023 Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash My week included a bunch of dumb worky-work stuff, a Tuesday night with only two hours of sleep and two days of sub-optimal amounts of exercise. When I got home this afternoon, I felt down and lethargic. I didn’t make my way toward…
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Two good podcasts targeted at those of us in our third act
By Jay Hiller, July 21, 2023 I have a long commute during the school year. Podcasts keep that time from being lost. Photo by Melanie Pongratz on Unsplash In the last three weeks I’ve listened to an episode each from two podcasts directed at women who are older. They’re different in that one of them…
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What are regrets for?
By Jay Hiller, July 20, 2023 The sentiment on this bracelet is well-meaning. I don’t find it helpful. Photo by Hailey Moeller on Unsplash A few years ago, in one of those moments when you’re waiting for yoga class to start, I was talking to a student who was more than 20 years older than…
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First kickball game
By Jay Hiller, June 12, 2023 Photo by Valeriia Miller on Unsplash The story of my first kickball game, might be the story of why for a long time, I thought of myself as someone who didn’t like to exercise. My family lived in Bogotá, Colombia for most of my first 4 years of elementary…
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Make it a great day!
By Jay Hiller, June 5, 2023 Photo by Jorge Vasconez on Unsplash On November 1, 2022, discouraged and ticked off, I pulled a notebook out of my purse and wrote “Things that make this a bad day.” Then I listed four things, all of them pretty bad,. They still seem bad looking back at them…
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Finish something
By Jay Hiller, May 24, 2023 Photo by Reid Naaykens on Unsplash There are two unfinished needlepoint projects under my desk. I started one of them in 2002 and the second one in 2006. I know the point where I stopped working on them and every time I glance in their direction it zaps a…
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Yoga works
By Jay Hiller, May 22, 2023 Photo by Richard Jaimes on Unsplash A long time ago, when I was just starting to practice yoga and after taking a yoga class I called my sister and said, “This yoga crap isn’t working. Maybe I should start drinking.” I was joking but it was during a period…
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Everyday is a chance to turn it all around
By Jay Hiller, April 10, 2023 Photo by Masaaki Komori on Unsplash I used to read housekeeping books, because I wanted to be a better home manager. (Reading the books without actually doing housework doesn’t clean the house, by the way, though I kept hoping it would.) In one of them, and I wish I…
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Excess of things
by Jay Hiller, March 18, 2023 Photo by Julia Joppien on Unsplash I’m working steadily but slowly to reduce the amount of stuff in my home and life. Having seen two family members in the last 3 years spend enormous amounts of time and energy dealing with the possessions of family members who have died,…