Overcoming Unnecessary Guilt

There are two main types of guilt that I know of:

Guilt where we have done something wrong.
Guilt where we feel like we have done something wrong but haven’t.

When I see it written like this I feel like it is so obvious, but I know that as humans we hardly ever get the balance right.  Even on […]

LifeGoalAction birthday contest update

Today is my birthday and so, as promised, I am upping the stakes if you choose to enter our little competition here today.  If you submit your comment or send me a message by my contact page before the 5:00 Thursday morning my time (that is 24 hours after this post is published, whatever time […]

Today is LifeGoalAction’s Birthday and you are all invited

Today is one month since LifeGoalAction was first published.  Thanks to you all, it has been a great month.  I am amazed at the number of readers who have found the site so quickly.  This shows me that there are a lot of capable people out there, hunting for the best tools to help them achieve their […]

Kanji - An intellectual Problem with a Creative Solution

Anyone who has ever tried learning Japanese will tell you that the toughest part is learning the Kanji.  Kanji is the largest of the 3 character sets that Japanese uses.  Hiragana and katakana are lightweight problems because they only contain about 46 characters each.  While Kanji is the heavyweight champion, weighing in at several thousand […]

Worlds worst phrases - Killing Time

I can think of very few common phrases that are more destructive than “Killing Time”.  Why would we ever want to kill time? 
When I was growing up I loved an Australian band called “Killing Time” and I think that one of the reasons was that I found the name strangely exciting.  The concept of wasting a precious resource, seemed […]

Find Your Motivation Switch

If you were to look at my life as I worked on two different activities, you might be tempted to believe that you are looking at two different people.  If you saw me dragging myself dejectedly through paperwork, scratching my head as I try to submit my annual tax return, you would have trouble believing that this […]

Reducing Drag

The Tour de France has just finished for another year and despite the drug scandals it remains the most spectacular display of cycling achievement that our world sees.  This year saw 144 riders covering 3554 kilometres in 21 days.  On a flat road, at the speed these guys ride, up to 90 % of the effort demanded of […]

Work and Rest

Tomorrow is another race day for me.  It is the Tsukuba 6 hour enduro cycling race and we have entered 2 teams of four riders.  The basic concept is that each team has one rider on the track at a time, riding flat out.   When they are exhausted, they ride into the pit and the […]