Aloha,
It’s Wellness Wednesday, and thanks again to Ashley,
Liz and Tara for letting me stop by this week.
With it being the New Year, I know a lot of readers
have made, like me, the annual commitment to work out more and eat less.
As part of a recent life change, I started working out,
and after two months of sweat, torture and binge watching daily episodes of
HGTV’s Love
It or List It on a 6-inch screen stuck to the elliptic
machine, I’m happy to see my beer keg of a stomach is slowly returning to its
former glory as a six-pack wannabe.
(Gotta say that the best thing of going to the gym
isn’t the physical changes, because honestly, I’m not eating healthier… I mean
come on people, I just worked out for like 14 and-a-half minutes… I need a
beer!)
It’s the mental changes that I’m appreciating. I’m feeling so much better about myself, which
translates into feeling better about my talents, so for that reason alone,
working out means writing more.
Here’s to a happy, healthy 2016.
Cheers!
Mark Koopmans was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. In 1989, he spent the next several years working in Holland, Spain, France and England. In 1994, he won his U.S. "Green Card," and is an American by choice since 2003. Koopmans began his writing career that same year with a feature for a regional magazine in California. Since then, he's worked as a staff writer for newspapers in Florida and Texas. Koopmans is also a proficient blogger and is working on his next book. He lives in Virginia, and is "Papa" to three active boys under the age of nine. He writes at night.
