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Craig Harper's Articles in Motivation

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  • A Lesson about Learning
    Memorising a whole bunch of stuff ain't learning; that's memorising. A nice party trick but ain't gonna change your reality for the better. Some people recite motivational crap all day, but they don't actually live it. Therefore, they haven't learned.
  • Be the Change
    Okay, here comes one of those wise old proverbs... it's a little philosophical so pay attention.
    "Stop wasting your life on crap you can't change".
    (Deep I know)
  • Boring Old Farts.
    Lately I feel like I've spent far too much time with, and around, the fun police... those grumpy, judgemental, opinionated old farts who peer down their nose at anyone who isn't like them; mind-numbingly boring, miserable and predictable. They even justify their unpleasant disposition....

    "You wouldn't understand adversity if it hit you on the head... back in my day.."
  • Celebrate the Weirdo.
    While all the other 'normal' kids were ploughing up and down the pool with their skinny ten year-old bodies, I was splashing around in my big-ass T-shirt... to hide my numerous rolls.
    Knowing that they would never realise that I was obese if I was wearing my magic 'fat-hiding T-shirt'.
    Of course.
  • Dear Danny, Please Don't Kill Yourself...
    Two nights ago I had a phone call from a guy who I've known for a while. Not too many years ago he was a lean, athletic, good looking young guy with the world at his feet. Now he is a morbidly obese, unhealthy man who despises his looks, is embarrassed to be seen in public and can't find clothes to fit him.
  • Exploring Life's Most Important Skill.
    While some of us are clever and articulate, we're also crap communicators (at least in some situations and circumstances). Don't assume that a large vocabulary or eloquent speech equates to effective communication.
  • Freak University (part one).
    It's seven forty five Saturday morning and I am doing my best to stay in my current state of being; unconscious, hung-over, stationary, comfortable, horizontal.
    Unfortunately for me, something or as it would turn out, someone, is destroying my tranquility with incessant thumping on my front door.
    Every thump is accompanied by a sharp stabbing pain behind my left eye.

    All of a sudden I'm re-thinking my whole 'anti-gun' stance.
  • Ho, Ho, Ho into those Christmas Calories.
    How dare I suggest that we include some healthier options on our Christmas menu and that maybe we don't continue eating until we explode. What am I thinking? Apparently, the point of Christmas is food. You know that whole 'three wise men, the manger, Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus' thing? Well, turns out that the real meaning of Christmas is to see how much pleasure we can give ourselves via an inordinate amount of calories. Who'da thought?
  • Living the Dream... or Nightmare.
    His career, finances, relationships, education, attitude, goals and dreams were all like the pond at the end of his street; stagnant. Stinky. Unhealthy.
    He knew it. And he hated it. But one day something happened.
  • Managing Our Emotional Energy
    A modern Zombie; going through 'the motions' of life.
    You've seen it; people who seem to have their 'life-force' drained out of them.
    Maybe at times you are that 'people'.
    Er, person.

    Simulated living... looks like living, but isn't.
  • Personal Development - A Dog's Life
    I reckon the Boss should lie in the sun with me.
    And chew his foot for a while.
    It's relaxing.
    It might help with his stress.
    Whatever that is.
  • Pringles for Breakfast.
    Why does someone who weighs one forty kgs (300lbs) and is just over five foot tall choose a can of Pringles and a coke for breakfast?
  • Quick-Fix Delusion
    The irony of the quick fix... is that it fixes nothing.We were gonna go with... 'the fat, dysfunctional, drug-using, alcohol-abusing, responsibility-avoiding, excuse-making, time-wasting, frustrated, pain-in-the-ass generation'... but it was too long and we couldn't fit it on our business cards.
  • Sitting at Life's Train Station.
    You've been given a magic ticket.
    Your magic ticket will take you to the place of your dreams.
    All you've got to do is choose your destination, leave your comfy seat and get on the train of your choice.
    And enjoy.
  • Sure, girls are cool.. but I so don't wanna be one.
    I gotta tell ya girls, I've given it some serious thought and I really think that, as a gender... you're missin' out.
    Being a bloke.... waaaay more fun.
    No doubt.
  • The ancient art of COMPLICATION
    (1) Body-fat is essentially stored energy (calories).
    (2) If you expend more than you put in, you'll be in energy deficit.
    (3) If you're in deficit your body will have to 'find' some energy from somewhere.
    (4) It will find it on your ass (or close by).
    (5) If you are in energy deficit of 500 calories per day (a coke and a cookie), you'll lose about one pound (0.4kg) of fat per week.

    Not complicated at all.
  • The Fat Blogger.
    Ladies and gentleman of the jury, it is my contention that the blogoshpere is in fact a dangerous place to live.
    Bad for one's physical health.
    Nice place to visit... but not to inhabit.
    My daily energy expenditure is now somewhere behind that of the dugong and the hibernating bear.
  • The Mythical 'Slim Zone'
    Over the years I have taken thousands of 'before' photos of people (front, side and rear) before they start their weight-loss/fitness endeavour.

    Invariably they are stunned when they see the pictures.

    Why are they so shocked?

    Because when it comes to their body, they live in some alternative reality;
    The Slim Zone.

    The one where they look forty pounds lighter.
  • The old 'Prized Possession in the Shoe' trick.
    Imagine that you've lost something which is very important to you.
    Very.
    A prized, irreplaceable possession.
  • The Parable of the Fat Kid.
    Once upon a time... there was a kid.
    A kid who loved to eat.
    Not unlike many kids, really.

    But this kid was different.

    He didn't just enjoy the occasional cookie or bowl of ice-cream.
    Or burger and fries.
    No, he lived for food.
    And when he wasn't eating... he was thinking about eating.
  • The Thief of Time.
    As I stand there in my fat body, looking at my broken car, with the words of my angry boss ringing in my ear, I wonder what became of the young enthusiastic man with the dreams, the plans and the talent.
    I wonder where the years have gone.
    I walk back to the mirror.
    I stare some more.
    Humiliated. Devastated. Broken.
    This wasn't my plan.
  • WASTING TIME at the GYM.
    Creating your best body needs to be a strategic, intelligent process... and following some generic training program ripped out of page seventy-two of 'Meatheads R Us' probably ain't gonna do it for you.
    This doesn't mean you need to be obsessive about your training... it's simply means train smart.
  • What is the Meaning of Life
    So in an age when space travel is possible, phones are now mobile computers and Michael Jackson can turn himself into some weird-ass version of Elizabeth Taylor, surely I can figure out the meaning of life.
    Or not.
  • You can't get to the fridge if you don't get off the couch
    Momentum is that irresistible force that keeps us doing what we need to do and moving in the right direction, irrespective of how we're 'feeling' on a given day. The greater the momentum we create... the greater our chance of success.
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