In my 30′s and 40′s my passion was running and I accomplished a lot even with some challenging circumstances. That passion carried easily on into my 50′s and then Grace came along and I instantly had two passions – being the best father that I could be and fitting my running in around fatherhood. ...
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Renewing a Sense of Common Purpose
In his weekly radio address, President Elect Barack Obama mentioned “renewing a sense of common purpose”. Earlier this week, I read this story which was from a story told to the annual Pennsylvania Community Bankers Association by Charles “T” Jones and it came to me from Beliefnet.com. “I’ve never written and only rarely tell...
A Thank You Letter to My Team of Coaches
Hi Team, Friday when I drop off the girls, I am pretty tired and feeling a little sad because I won’t see them again until Monday. Although I intended to run, I walked instead and for some reason started thinking about Christmas Day 1981. That day was my last day of living in Guatemala...
The Life Sentence of Diabetes (or is it?)
Meredith Gelfand is a Team Beachbody Coach and she recently shared her story with a group of other coaches in Philadelphia. She was also kind enough to retell her story in an email to Beachbody CEO Carl Daikeler, and it is pasted below. “On May 30, 2006, I weighed 305 pounds and was rushed...
The Challenges and Rewards of Having Two Jobs
A year ago at this time, I was reeling from the fact that the supplier for my e-commerce business was going away from an independent Internet dealer model to an in-house Internet and retail model for selling their products and I was losing my full time job. The additional part time business that I...
Remembering a Great Team Beachbody Coach
Written by Carl Daikeler – http://carldaikeler.blogspot.com/ One day in 1981 I was a senior walking down the halls of North Penn high school, wondering where I would go to college. A poster in the hallway caught my eye. It featured a guy with “Dutch Boy” length hair balancing a trombone, heavy texts, science equipment,...
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