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Positive Actfirmations: Why Action, Not Words Alone, Creates Real Change
Introduction Positive affirmations have become a popular tool in self-development, therapy-adjacent spaces, and the health and fitness world. You are often encouraged to stand in front of a mirror and repeat phrases such as “ I love my body ,” “ I am confident ,” or “ I am disciplined ,” with the promise that saying these words often enough will eventually make them true. For some people, this approach feels uplifting. For others, it feels hollow, frustrating, contradictory o
Coach Alan
Dec 30, 20256 min read


Why Am I So Pessimistic About Everything?
T’was the early hours of this morning, and I rose up out of my bed, slowly, like a Zombie rising out of the grave to ‘trick and treat’. I’d an early morning online session, but the spirits of Halloween began to cause tech issues for me, and I couldn’t get into the session. ‘Great start to the day’.. .. I said. ‘Here's to crappy’. Luckily I snapped myself out of that way of thinking…and demanded myself to be more optimistic. Anyhoo, I had another session at 8.45 am, and flew d
Coach Alan
Oct 31, 20232 min read


A Mind Exercise for Fitness (and other areas of life)
A mind exercise to help you improve your mental health, and relationship with exercise and nutrition. Yesterday while on a call with a...
Coach Alan
Oct 11, 20222 min read


Is anxiety a bad thing?
As I write this, to my left, there is a bottle of ice-cold water. Easily accessible. Now if I happened to be born 1,000 years ago,.....
Coach Alan
Jul 6, 20221 min read
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