life lessons Archives - Michele Sodon

5 Lifestyle Hacks

Want an easier way to lose body fat, increase your energy, sleep better, reinforce your immune system and just generally feel better all the way around…? Here are just five Lifestyle Hacks that you could make almost effortlessly to help improve your health. The fact is, everything from losing body-fat to long-term…

The Wonder of Happenstance

Ever put any credence to fate or chance or whatever you want to call that nebulous, circumstantial collision between 2 worlds? My wildly giddy and romantic side would rubber stamp that serendipitous mindset all day long, but my more practical and somewhat jaded intellectual side would scream foul play. The tables have turned, of late,…

Liminal Space – that Space Between

Well, friends — here we are — together inside a capsule of LIMINAL SPACE. What am I talking about? I’m glad you asked and the teacher of language arts in me jumps up, excited to give you the answer. Let me break it down for you. “Liminality” defined by Wikipedia, is the “quality of ambiguity…

Coffee Talk: My Journey – “Is it REALLY necessary?”

“I thought you were a professional personal trainer … “ I am. “But I thought you had been doing this for over 25 years … “ I have. “Wait, don’t you own a successful business that you started by yourself from the ground up … ?” Yes. Yes I do. “Soooo — connect the dots…

Coffee Talk: My Journey – “The 3 Pronged Triad”

REDUNDANCY. “3-Pronged” & “Triad”. Yes. I know. And using redundancy in naming this entry is quite intentional. Why? Because, truly, it takes being redundant moment by moment, day after day, week after week, to establish habits and to eventually see results in WHATEVER IT IS I choose and you choose to tackle. WARNING: …

Coffee Talk: My Journey – “The Decision”

I’VE HESITATED, hemmed, hawed, backpedaled and have had inner debates with Joe, (my cuppa), as to whether or not to discuss this with you. Joe says, “Go for it, girrrlll — I GOTCHU!” And though most days I trust Joe with all my inner musings, his hopped-up-on-caffeine, eager beaver mentality has me doubting. Why do…

The Art of — `K I / N T < S U \ G I , ---

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the King’s horses and All the King’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. Ever feel like poor ol’ Humpty — sitting there looking at the broken pieces of yourself scattered on the ground? Ever feel like you are shattered — with a…

I Use to Fall …

I use to fall … down FACE-FIRST And I stayed there–feeling sorry for myself, contemplating quitting, wondering if I was fooling myself to think I have what it takes, coming up with every excuse to stay there – face-down -, convincing myself I was in over my head and had no business attempting this doomed-from-the-start…

The shadow PROVES the sunshine!

Have you ever …stopped to consider your own shadow? Always dark, like a black ink spill that takes on a distorted shape — sometimes stretched tall and unnaturally thin in structure or exceptionally wide and oblong — often giving the impression that the object of the shadow is much grander than it really is or…

You’ve Schooled Me!

Who ME? You ask. Yes. Yes – YOU! Over the last 25 years I have sat at my proverbial desk, holding my mental notebook in hand and jotting down notes in my mind. And you, my friend, have totally SCHOOLED ME! ———- REWIND First let me back up a bit. I am an educator by…