1. Product I love… I tend to chew a lot of gum. In an effort to avoid the artificial sweeteners, like aspartame (terrible stuff!), I have tried every natural gum I could find. Some stick to your teeth, most have flavor that disappears within a minute, and not too many taste very good. My favorite…
1. Back in the day… Remember when Sea World had a water ski team? I was fortunate enough to be on that team for five seasons. What an incredible experience! I will write a blog soon that I will call, “Five Life Lessons I Learned as a Professional Water Skier.” One of those lessons is…
1. Inspirational person… Check out this quick interview I did with a patient and friend of mine, Beth Dowell. She has amazed me. She’s been a patient of mine for over 15 years. For ten of those years, she weighed over 240 pounds. She had finally had enough and decided she was going to…
Word I love… One word I love is authentic. It is defined as “not false or copied; genuine; real.” Another definition… “representing one’s true nature or beliefs; true to oneself or to the person identified.” In a world where everyone seems to want to look like, dress like, and act like everyone else, it’s refreshing…
Documentary I watched… I recently watched the documentary, Free Solo, about professional rock climber Alex Hannold’s attempt to be the first to free solo climb El Capitan’s vertical rock face (900-meter) at Yosemite National Park. To explain a little more… free soloing is where a climber climbs ALONE… WITHOUT the use of any ropes, harnesses,…
Inspiring people… Tiger Woods…. Winning The Masters… again… 14 years after his last win there! Wow! It’s so inspiring to see something as remarkable as that. He makes it look easy, but what most can never realize is how much effort, sacrifice, and mental toughness goes into a comeback like that. To overcome the odds,…
1. Inspirational person… I LOVE this quick video from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. He talks about his lifelong dream of playing in the NFL getting shattered when he gets cut from the Canadian Football League. But… had that not happened, he wouldn’t be where he is today. My favorite line from this one minute video……
1. Quote… “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.” ― Mother Teresa Years ago, I remember someone asking me in a sarcastic tone if I thought I was going to change the world. I was young and almost embarrassingly said “no.”…
1. Cool Experience… Spending spring break in the Dominican Republic. Chartered a boat yesterday and went scuba diving. As my family swam along the coral reef, seeing stingray, squid, lobster, and thousands of amazingly colorful fish, I could not help but think how cool it is that we have the ability to go underwater, be…
1. What’s Wrong With That… Not sure if you saw this article in April of 2018, but you have to read this! Many people believe there is a suppression of a cure for many diseases so that the pharmaceutical companies and medical system can continue to profit. It is easy to see why, as there have…