Author: Jason Leenaarts

Shake Weights And Fairy Dust

Remember Shake Weights? I’ll do my very best to keep my inner child from going too far down that rabbit hole, but infomercials did their job, and Shake Weights generated millions upon millions of dollars. All because people believed that a device like that could give them lean, toned arms. And while studies found that […]

Back To Values

Periodically, I’ll have a conversation with clients about values. And two questions to ask: What are your values? How are your behaviors aligned with your values? Values can change over time and depending on what might be happening with family, faith, health, finances, etc., your values might shift in priority. They might also run in […]

Why Your Diet Keeps Falling Apart

It’s common scenario: You put together a meal plan by yourself, or with a coach, and it’s smooth sails for roughly 2-3 weeks (on average). And then, life happens. There’s an unplanned lunch, a dinner with too much booze, a sick kid at home who only wants comfort food and snacks, or the business getaway […]

Pillars Of Health

From time to time, you might find yourself taking inventory of different areas of your life to see what’s in a good place, what’s not, and what you’re in position to change. Maybe that’s financial, social, emotional, etc. But within the frameworks of health, you have a handful of areas that might be worth focusing […]

Could Fat Loss Be This Easy?

Jake (not his real name) wants to lose about twenty pounds. We talked about his lifestyle (mostly sedentary), and his current exercise regimen (little except for a daily 3-4 mile walk), and then I asked for a detailed 24-hour recall where he could walk me through everything he’d had to eat and drink over the […]

Losing Sight Of Yourself?

This business program I’ve been in for the last two weeks is wrecking me (in a good way.) We have about ten weeks left to go, and collectively, our team (6 of a total of 38 scholars) were complete mush after our last module. The program is designed to help business owners take their respective […]

It’s (Almost) All Mental

If you’ve ever been to RevFit on a Saturday morning, you’ve likely seen the competitive nature of Gina and her son and daughter (respectively), Dominic and Julia. It’s all in good fun of course, as Gina likes to remind her kids that she can still run the show if they want to compete against her. […]

What Does Success Look Like?

Recently, I was speaking with my therapist, Charlotte, and it was one of those conversations where I felt as if there was nothing pressing to talk about. There was no major drama happening in work or life, no traumatic events, and no vulnerable areas I needed to work through. Everything felt “good”. With just one […]

Do The Difficult Thing

Last year, I enrolled in a certification course that would expand some of my nutrition knowledge. I knew it would be challenging and that was part of the interest in learning that aspect of how our bodies react to the nutrients we give it. And while it has been an interesting course, it has also […]

75

If cancer had not done the very thing it appears to be so effective at doing, my father would be turning 75 this week. He passed at 59, a mere nine months after he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. As each year ticks along, it’s not only the man that we miss that makes each […]