What a month!!! It was a fun challenge but also pretty horrible. Definitely worth doing again! (TL;DR – I did a bunch of burpees.) Although I’m not very competitive against other people, I’m insanely competitive with myself. So, I like to set challenges for myself—physical/fitness challenges, work-related challenges, etc. ; moreover, these challenges often end […]
Category Archives: From the desk of Aaron Hoos
Here Are 4 VERY Simple Changes That Helped Me Lose 50 Pounds
I lost 50 pounds in a year. It’s weird to write that! For most of my childhood I was always super-skinny and had a crazy-fast metabolism. But my job is sedentary and I like to cook and my metabolism noticeably slowed down as I progressed through my 30’s. By 40 or 41 I’d hit 215. […]
How I Leapt Off A 22-Storey Building And Lived To Tell About It
Would you leap off of a 22-storey building? I did. Specifically, the building in the center of this picture… Here’s How It Happened… A few years ago, when I lived in Winnipeg Manitoba, I heard about an event where people raised funds for charity and, as part of the fundraising, they could rappel down one […]
“You become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration”
James Allen said that. Allen was the author if the inspirational essay/book As A Man Thinketh. This quotation is powerful and meaningful to me so it’s one that I review every day. It reminds me that there are two opposing forces at work in our lives everyday: There’s the “me” who doesn’t want to change, […]
6 ways to measure success that have nothing to do with money
I think we almost always measure success with money: Either we define success as having a certain amount of money in the bank or we define it as having a certain level of passive income or we define it as having a certain net worth. Using these financial metrics, we can easily identify who is […]