Well, look who just showed up here–YOU! Thanks for coming, and I hope you enjoy your stay. There are lots of blogs, photos and a forum that might interest you.
Much of this site is about fitness, which is “fitting” so to speak, since fitness athletics is one of my passions!
My other passions are my faith and my family. Leave me a note if you have questions or problems with the site–I’m a judge, not a webmaster! Nothing gets fixed instantly anymore because the webmaster, my son, actually has a real job too!
-Mike Harris
Mike's 20 lastest blogs
Hi gang. I know it’s been a while since I posted a blog and it is all my fault. Not that I couldn’t have done a blog, and not that I haven’t had time to do a blog, just that I didn’t really have anything worthy of blogging about. But, now I do–an update on [...]
I donate blood platelets at the Red Cross every two weeks, as part of my ongoing program of helping those who need it and who have no means to return the favor. In the case of platelets, all I know is that they go to help cancer and other critically ill patients, so it’s perfect [...]
Several people who saw my “time to move on blog” below wrote to ask me what I’m going to do next. Well, if my job doesn’t get any easier soon, I may just quietly go insane, and one day start screaming and never stop…..but I suspect that things will get better in the job front [...]
I just finished a transformation challenge for this year, and the results were predictably “good,” though perhaps not as good as years past. I’m 63 years old now, so nothing is really as easy to do as it was, especially staying fit. So, I’m still proud of the challenge results, but I also think it’s [...]
Perhaps you saw the March 23 2010, Good Morning America health story, a sort of an expose of a growing problem it calls “Orthorexia Nervosa.” If GMA is to be believed, there is a growing list of victims ruled by fear of eating unhealthy things and paralyzed by having to analyze the food content [...]
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THE LADY SUCCESS DOCUMENT (a/k/a “The Eight Week
Miracle!), compiled by Mike Harris, 2006 Men’s BFL Champion
ACTUAL POSTS FROM THE GUESTBOOK OF THE BODY FOR LIFE WEBSITE AND EMAILS
SENT TO ME, LAST EDITED 11/27/09
This is a document that consists of either actual guestbook posts from ladies, or responses from
personal emails (where I requested additional details) These [...]
A rerun of a blog first published on 3/20/2009
If I had to name the four biggest reasons people fail their body for life challenge, other than laziness, I would say they are fear, resentment, self-pity and guilt! What? Not things like failure to plan, or injuries, or “life getting in the way?” No, the truth [...]
When I was at the Ultimate Transformation Camp sponsored by EAS in 2004, we were each given a mental quality and asked to do a brief video that described what it was and how it was or was not critical to the overall transformation process. Mine was mental strength.
I said that mental strength, or [...]
In typical David Letterman fashion, I present for you the top ten ways to improve the life you live. The difference between Letterman’s top tens and mine are that these are serious, not frivolous. And they are particularly applicable to those who are in the process of transforming—physically, mentally, spiritually—or all of them! These are [...]
April 4 Blog on Fear
by: Michael Harris 8/30/2007 The Greatest Enemy to Success!
Ready to start that last challenge of the year? You have 3 days left to get at it! A question: This has derailed more challenges than all the other things put together. It not only derails challenges, it tears up relationships, increases [...]
What’s the one quality you must have to successfully complete a transformation that changes you both on the outside and inside?
Many people would suggest things like perseverance, optimism, work ethic, discipline, high pain threshold, stuff like that. But I believe that the most important quality to success is TRUTH.
By TRUTH, I am talking about more [...]
Many first time challengers in the body for life transformation contest are puzzled by the term “inner transformation.” The scores that the judges use seem to give a great deal of value to a competitor’s inner transformation, so it certainly behooves you to understand exactly what is meant by that term.
Many people think that [...]
According to Bill Phillips, the architect of this fabulous Body for Life system, the contest was designed as a way of giving people motivation to do the challenge and stick with it. But Dave and Amy Sayers are living proof that there are other ways of staying motivated when you can’t enter the contest. [...]
I am a person who found an entire new life in recovery and then in Christianity, and because of how those things impacted my life, three of my great “loves” are slogans that are meaningful, acronyms that are truly memorable, and short passages of wisdom that are life-changing. So, I pay a lot of [...]
It Takes DRIVE to Complete a Good Challenge!
by: Michael Harris 7/14/2007
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Ready for another acronym? I think they’re helpful, really, as a way of checking our own behavior. Yesterday’s was borrowed from 12 step recovery, and is a checklist to be sure you don’t get in trouble as a result of failing to read your [...]
THE LADY SUCCESS DOCUMENT (a/k/a “The Eight Week
Miracle!), compiled by Mike Harris, 2006 Men’s BFL Champion
ACTUAL POSTS FROM THE GUESTBOOK OF THE BODY FOR LIFE WEBSITE AND EMAILS SENT TO ME, LAST EDITED 11/27/09
This is a document that consists of either actual guestbook posts from ladies, or responses from
personal emails (where I requested additional [...]
From here on out, it’s literally a sprint until Christmas and then the end of 2009. How will you remember this year? As a mixture of success and failures? As nothing significant at all? As the biggest year of your life?
Well, how you remember it will largely be determined by how you finish it. Somewhat [...]
This is the first in a series of ten blogs about the elements of a life well-lived. It is not DIRECTLY about Transformation principles, but I promise you that every one of the principles I write about is beneficial for helping you to complete and retain the results of an excellent transformation, and to build [...]
“Most of you people have read enough of my writings on the forums or guestbooks or blogsites to know that I have little patience for people who are just not at all committed to the cause. And my lack of patience is for a good reason–I want to help those people who have not only [...]
When I’m out with George, my newly adopted 7 year old Lab, at 0 dark 30 in the morning, I get to spend a lot of time thinking. Though I technically am walking George, he is actually walking me, since he is always out ahead of me, setting the pace and the course. So, I have [...]
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