Run with Robin

Lifestyle Blog

Living a healthy life can be daunting and overwhelming. Whether you want to start moving, keep moving, eat healthier or improve your lifestyle in a general sense,

I am with you. I am on a journey to live the healthiest life I can and enjoy it at the same time!

Making those healthy changes can be confusing. Sometimes you might feel alone or discouraged. If you do the work, it will be worth it, I promise.

Let me help you by sharing with you what I have learned along the way, as I have made healthy changes in my own life. The journey is not over, in fact, I feel like the more I learn, the more I need to learn!

Join me in the fight to be our best and to live healthy, happy lives. We have been given one body, one self. Let us honor the giver of these gifts with what we do and who we are.

Robin Simpson

Wife, mother, professional organizer, lifestyle coach, trainer, marathoner, follower of Jesus, friend, sister, daughter, Harry Potter nerd, lover of music - most types, especially live, reader, healthy habits geek. Desiring to be my best and help you be yours.

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June

2016

What To Do When You Have Too Much To Do.

Does your to do list ever overwhelm you? Do you ever become frozen and unable to move forward because you don't know where to start? I do. If you've read any of my other blogs or kept up with me on Facebook, you know that I address this ...

June

2016

Falling Off Of The Wagon

I fell off of the challenge wagon. I have not blogged in ONE WEEK! I challenged myself to blog for 30 days. (With Sundays built in for a day off.) I did pretty well for the first 1/2 and then I just didn't. I skipped a couple during the f...

May

2016

Trust the Process

Tonight, as I sat in a meeting for parents of cross country runners, I was reminded of something that we have been telling our participants ever since we started marathon training in 2004. From the very first day, we encourage our MM team ...

May

2016

Beware of Perfection - It's a Trap!

Perfection. It's a trap. The expectation and desire for perfection in any area of your life will breed, fear, overwhelm, anxiety and lack of activity. Fear will make you hide and throw up barriers to your success. Overwhelm will paralyze...

May

2016

How Do You Gain Momentum?

In whatever you do - work, training, family life - when you build momentum, you gain traction and when you keep that momentum going, sooner or later you will succeed. The first question is, "How do I gain momentum?". To gain moment...

May

2016

Has Your Why Lost Its Power?

A Marathon Makeover participant has asked, "How do you motivate yourself when your why has lost its power?". Excellent question and something that all of us face at one time or another. First, let's talk about our "why". When we take peo...