Blog entries posted in Mandy Beard

Starting Fresh

Mandy Beard — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:00:00 +0100

How about this for a New Year's Resolution: Ditch New Year's Resolutions. Why? They rarely stick. It can be beneficial to reflect on what changes we want to make in our lives and to identify habits that we want to leave with the previous calendar year. The overindulgence that comes with the holiday season leaves us primed for extreme and overly ideal desires for changing certain things. Before we know it, we declare that we will join the gym and lose 25 pounds as a way to start fresh. This is eaRead More...

Lucky

Mandy Beard — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

I am just plain lucky. I work with such a positive and can-do group of people. It is very refreshing to be surrounded by people who are positive, solution oriented, willing to span the loose boundaries we have between job responsibilities and to work hard. Not to mention their contributions to the actual work environment and all the good laughs we have!

These same people lead thoughtful, balanced lives, are dedicated to their families, care abRead More...

Perspective Gaining at the Gas Pump

Mandy Beard — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Gaining and keeping perspective on "what is really important in life" is a skill that I am learning needs to continually be cultivated; gaining this perspective on occasion doesn't ensure its permanence. In fact, nothing is permanent. There are so many opportunities for getting micro in our lives - shaving seconds off our time for a PR; Budgeting to the dollar; Pretzel sticks or pretzel rods in lunches this week?; Shorts or running pants for my run this morning?; I said thiRead More...

The Triathlete Rebel

Mandy Beard — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

I have always been a rule-follower and as a child I worked hard to keep the peace in a household of 4 kids and many pets. So how come now, at age 35, is my own form of rebellion surfacing? And it comes out in such an interested disguise --as a triathlete rebel!

I love to run and my routine runs feed my soul. A few months ago I decided that it would be fun to expand my horizons and push myself to participate in Endurance Magazines three Ramblin'Read More...

Cutting Checks.

Mandy Beard — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Cutting checks for our SPORToften.com customers who process online registration for events may not sound like a very meaningful work task; I can't say that it always is. But, I had an awesome awareness recently that shifted this mundane task into a new category for me. I was clicking away on the data entry for these checks when I came upon the regsitration report for Girls on the Run of the Triangle. This organization is near and dear to my heart (I used to work for GOTR Read More...

Just Enough...

Mandy Beard — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:00:00 +0100

I was recently privileged to a conversation with a group of women about our ever growing mentality of "not enough:"

...There is not enough time in the day, my house is never clean enough, I don't dress stylish enough, I can't seem to get on top of things at work, I don'tRead More...

Early Morning Webs

Mandy Beard — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:00:00 +0100
It's not very often that I get to do an early morning run anymore. But WOW -- when I get to, it is amazing! Not only was it 60 degrees and slighly crisp this morning, it was quiet, the trails were clean, my body felt rested and my stride was easy. I recently abandoned using my ipod for the daily runs and started focusing on my breath. This morning, I was on about my tenth deep inhale when my face was Read More...