The scale does not define you

Photograph of Isla Verde Beach.

  “Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.” ~Lord Chesterfield The past two months I have gotten a better at staying away from the bad habit of weighing myself every day. I have scale in my bathroom and when I started my latest fitness transformation, I got…

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It’s ok to not be Normal…

Isabela Beach

Post originally published as part of Sunday Newsletter feel free to sign up here. “I can try to define “being normal” as (consciously or unconsciously) not being yourself in attempts to act under more socially-accepted means. ” – Marcella Chamorro Over 20 years ago, on June 6, 1992, my family and I where on a plane moving…

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Change & Fear

Picture Taken at Austin Convention Center During SXSWi 2013

Post originally published as part of Sunday Newsletter feel free to sign up here. “Slowness to change usually means fear of the new” Philip Crosby A little over two years ago, a few days after Christmas, in my hometown of Ponce, I realized how an unexpected change in our lives was going to become a…

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