7 Lessons Learned from a Level-Up 2025 Triathlon Season
There’s an old saying: “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” Well… I may be an old-ish dog, but triathlon keeps proving that there’s always more to learn. What I love most about this sport is that the lessons are endless — sometimes painful, often humbling, always valuable. This year delivered some of my […]
Read MoreIn This Challenging Ski Racing Season, a Time for Gratitude
It has certainly been a challenging 2020 for our ski racing community. In mid-March, Covid-19 through a wrench in the machinery of our sport’s plans, cancelling races and ending the season prematurely. The disruption continued through the summer as opportunities for on-snow training dwindled; in the U.S., only Mount Hood was able to accommodate racers. […]
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Saturday Evening Post column: Gratitude: Get What You Get and Don’t Get Upset
The Saturday Evening Post published my most recent column, “Gratitude: Get What You Get and Don’t Get Upset.” Gratitude is such a simple, yet powerful emotion. In fact, one of the most surprising and robust findings in research on happiness is the effect that expressing gratitude has on one’s basic level of happiness. In a […]
Read More5 Ways to Weave Gratitude into Your Family’s Life
To ensure that your children embrace the value of gratitude, you must immerse them in a culture of gratitude. You can do this by weaving gratitude into the very fabric of your family life. Our family has a “Mo’ Grat” ritual every evening when we sit down for dinner. In this case, it means “Moment […]
Read More5 Words of Kindness to Teach Your Children Gratitude
In my last post, I described five messages that parents can send to their children to instill the value and practice of gratitude. In this post, I’ll discuss how kind words can be another means through which you can convey the importance of gratitude to your children. My family’s ‘catchphrase’ for gratitude is “Mo’ Grat,” […]
Read More5 Messages of Gratitude You Can Send Your Children
In my last post, I introduced you to power of gratitude in the lives of children and families. In this post, I will show you how gratitude can be communicated to your children through many conduits. That’ s a good thing because, maybe more than any other message, you’re going to have to send the […]
Read MoreGratitude Fuels Your Child’s Heart (and Your Own)
One of the most important—and often neglected—messages that you want your children to get early and often is the power of gratitude. Consider a simple “thank you.” Those two words offer a win-win for the sender and the receiver of the message. A surprising and robust finding in the growing body of research that has […]
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