Personal Development

The Road to Wellness Begins with Awareness

December 15, 2020 by Jon Lanman, RD Leave a Comment

I want to start eating health but don't know where to start

As I start a new business, I’ve been thinking a lot about new beginnings and journeys. For the past several years, I’ve been going through school and gaining the experience I need to help coach people toward their wellness goals. It’s been a journey to where I arrived last week – quitting my job to focus on my business full time.

Our lives are full of these types of journeys. We set our sites on goals far off in the distance, and then we take steps to reach them. Eventually, we arrive.

Wellness is also a journey. And it’s probably one of the most important journeys you will ever take. But, where do you get started?

If you’re saying to yourself, “I want to start eating healthy but I don’t know where to start”, I hope this post provides some insight.

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Why I Became a Dietitian and Exercise Physiologist

August 24, 2020 by Jon Lanman, RD Leave a Comment

About 5 years ago, I set out to change my career. I decided to become a dietitian. Why?

At the time I was doing SEO marketing at a small agency for lawyers. I had been doing marketing for the last several years and I had become pretty good at my career. My salary was on the rise… but something was eating me from the inside.

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Creating a Wellness Vision Statement

January 15, 2020 by Jon Lanman, RD Leave a Comment

Goals, goals, goals. Everyone’s always talking about setting goals. Yes, they’re key to personal growth. But, before you set goals, it’s important to first create a personal wellness vision statement.

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When Perfection Gets in the Way of Performance

November 9, 2019 by Jon Lanman, RD Leave a Comment

When Perfectionism Gets in the Way of Performance

Do your ideals get in your way? Mine do. It happens all the time, and it starts with a well intentioned goal.

I tell myself I’m going to workout three days per week. And, then I feel like a failure when I work out once, and sit in front of a computer for the rest of the time.

Or, in an attempt to write more often, I set a goal to write one blog post per week. Then I stare frustrated into a folder of half finished blog posts, that continues to grow each day.

What did I do wrong?

After all, these aren’t that lofty of ambitions. I’ve scaled them back over time, and tried to make them reasonable for my schedule. Yet, I’ve still struggled. So, where do I go from here?

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Why Get a Life Coach

July 5, 2019 by Jon Lanman, RD Leave a Comment

Several years ago, I found myself in my early thirties, unsatisfied with where I was in life. Sure, life was good according to your standard living metrics. I was healthy, I had a stable job, my incoming cash was positive and accumulating.

Yet, still I felt unsatisfied and bored. I was surviving, but there were so many experiences I still wanted. I wanted to play in a band, I wanted to meet an amazing woman, I wanted to feel more alive. First world problems these may have been, but that did not quell my appetite.

So, what did I do?

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