Ready to step out on a limb? Explore new horizons to create your dreams or bring desires to fruition? Break conventional molds? Welcome to your next level of focus, clarity, and follow-through. 💚✨ This Manifestation Journal (print + digital) wa...

CONSISTENCY = PROVEN FOUNDATION OF TRAINING/EXERCISE SUCCESS As Mustang would wisely say, there are no shortcuts to giving your fitness top dog status!  And to explain the notion of consistency, I’ll use a sports performance analogy to best arti...

Time for Some Journaling Benefits to Transform the Moment? Writing stuff down helps put things in perspective and offers possible pathways to creating what you want. How to Let the Magic of Fingertip Catharsis Start 🪄 How does ‘Fingertip Catharis’ ...

Not planned but the Gentle Drill Sergeant’s 5th Commandment focuses on the power of 5 minutes to create multiple changes.  5 MINUTE WORKOUT METAMORPHIS Scientifically within the first few minutes, or what I call “getting the lead out”, there i...

🕵️ Capture Clues with this Dream Tracker Journal Are you ready to capture the essence of dreams — the subtle and profound imprints left in our slumber? 👉 This journal ( digital or print ) helps you track your dreams and parse the symbolic clues that...

MINDSET MATTERS FOR FITNESS SUCCESS 👉 Expectation meets Reality = Biggest Workout Deterrent To facilitate your success in achieving your fitness and wellness goals, the 4rth Commandment of the Gentle Drill Sergeant’s Success Protocol conveys a ...

Like watching the chaotic effects of catnip on your feline friend, emotional and/or mental vortexes make seeing things clearly a little difficult🤯 As mighty as a sword, the pen cuts through hubris and the expression of writing down the frenetic, int...

True story!  I was mortified, no matter how much his wife tried to assure me, my face must have been as pale as her husband’s when he puked. Over 20 years ago  I worked for one of the major gym chains and was responsible for fitn...

REASON WHY JOURNALING IS SO IMPORTANT You know that feeling, the one that wells up inside you? Like water slowly getting hotter, bubbles start to form down below, you see a bubble on the bottom of the pot, then another and another. Most of the time ...

One of the ‘OG’s from the original theLOFT FITNESS STUDIO’s House Rules!  And it’s foundational for the new, Gentle Drill Sergeant’s 10 Commandments - this is #2! AA - THE  MINDSET SHIFT FOR SUSTAINABLE WELLNESS SUCCESS 17 years on, you know this H...

Perhaps if you’re a cat, us ‘hoo-mans’ need to make this one the best we can. When something becomes an action you know it’s having a significant effect. Thoughts, well wishes and intents are fine and dandy but actions always speak louder than words...

😳 Love the incredulous expressions from people when you tell them you’re doing a fast.  It intensifies in peculiarity with the corresponding increase in duration of days.   Gotta admit, sometimes I’m impulsive and it’s a vibe that either strengthens...

HOW TO SUCCEED WITH YOUR FITNESS GOALS When I operated my fitness studio I had a set of house rules. 15 years after shutting it down and circling back to fitness coaching that now includes services like reiki and mindfulness instruction, I’ve create...

Meet ‘The Alchemist’. In this case it can be you, if and only if..... In the draft for an upcoming book on how meditation facilitates the awakening process, these 3 elements came to me in a wordplay. When these elements are not in alignment, the wor...

When I’m engrossed in creative pursuits, depending on my mood, I will listen to music.🎶 This too is mood dependent. I enjoy ambient house or melodic house quite often. I remember listening to this compilation and one of the songs had bare minimum ly...