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Recognize your past failures and prepare for them — Your psychology can tell a lot about why you don’t exercise. Psychology not only impacts your motivation and mood, but it also affects your behaviors toward exercise. Put simply — your psychology influences your decision to exercise or not. Before you try to get healthy, you first need to identify…

Use exercise as a servant to achieve your goals — Fitness is a tool to improve your life. My Mom always told me, “Devin, you can do anything you want in life.” I still listen to that advice, however, I like to add on: “…if you work hard enough.” Anything you want in life is attainable. A healthy body. Your…

Improving your health requires behavior change — If you want to get healthy, stop agonizing about exercise. Before you take one step, lift a dumbbell, or start a single workout, you must be willing to make a change. Getting in better shape requires behavioral change first. If you continue to behave the way you always have, you’ll…

A 5-step Upwork proposal sample to land more gigs — Upwork is a great way to jumpstart your freelance writing business. A couple of months ago, I decided to create an Upwork account and write for clients instead of solely sharing my words on Medium. I dove in head-first and was pleasantly surprised by how exciting, simple, and lucrative Upwork…

The hard truth you need to hear to get in the best shape of your life — The process of change starts with the realization that something isn’t working. That something’s broken. That something needs to change for the better, or you’ll be faced with the worst. If you want to get healthier, get 6-pack abs, or get in the best shape of your life, you have…

Workouts are just temporary play dates with a crappy friend — There’s no way around it. Working out is meant to be painful. It’s supposed to suck. It’s designed to be uncomfortable and difficult. As the saying goes, “if it were easy, everyone would do it.” Everyone would the body of their dreams, 6-pack abs, or be able to run a…

Harsh, uncomfortable truths learned after 25 years — Looking in the rearview mirror can deliver powerful insights. Unfortunately, it usually also brings with it pain and regret. Although uncomfortable, the best way to learn is by enduring the consequences of a bad decision. Without reflecting on the past, we’ll never understand the best way to move forward. Here…

A simple, scientific approach to finally achieve your goal weight — Losing weight is less complicated than you think. If you eat more calories than you burn, you gain weight. This is a calorie surplus. If you eat fewer calories than you burn, you lose weight. This is a calorie deficit. If you eat the same calories that you burn, you…