Almost as soon as President Obama passed a rather diluted version of health care reform, there were claims of it being unconstitutional. With that said, a number of lawsuits were filed. Just this past week, a judge dismissed two of Virginia’s legal challenges to the new health care law. Apparently, at this time, health care reform is within the bounds of the Constitution. I am sure this battle will continue.

What happened when Medicare was put in place? Was it considered unconstitutional as well?

This behavior tends to be apparent when people (and lobbyists) simply don’t agree with policy and legislation. Go ahead, file a lawsuit. Place the blame on a breach of the constitution. Lawsuits have a great way of holding up the process or even preventing the law from ever seeing the light of day.

Is health care reform truly unconstitutional?

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On and off. Black and white. Up and down. Right and left. In and out. Yes and no.

All of these are simple binary statements. They are all fine examples of a series of ones and zeros. There are so many instances of this – in fact, everything in our world can be described with just two numbers.

It is amazing how all of what we do can be reduced to a simple combination of ones and zeros. In many ways, it’s hard to believe, hard to comprehend, hard to imagine how such beautiful patterns and structures in our world exist because of ones and zeros – nothing more, nothing less. This is, without doubt, the definition of “elegance in simplicity”.

And this series of digits brings to mind the fact that life is just a series of simple, straight-forward decisions. It is but a decision made at every fork in the road, a choice in every waking moment, a stimulus and a response – a one, or a zero. On or off. Right or left. Up or down. Yes or no.

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Today, I am presenting the first in a series of RunSmart videos. The series will be on-going and a new video will be released on a monthly basis. These videos will complement the material presented in the book “RunSmart: A Comprehensive Approach To Injury-Free Running”. The full series of videos can be found here.

For those of you that are interested in a more interactive learning environment, consider attending a four hour RunSmart Level One program. You can further your education with the Level Two and Level Three programs which will focus on the application of RunSmart principles to both coaching and training program development and running injury recovery.

A transcription of the video will also be available with each post.

I hope you enjoy the video series. If you would like me to address any specific aspect of the RunSmart approach, drop me an email or add a comment to this article.

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Someone has caused time to speed up. I swear, it’s going by faster today than it ever has before. Or it certainly seems that way.

Life as music. Or music as life. The two have occupied parallel universes for me for many years.

And it is with thoughts of time – and music – and life in general - that I write today. If moments were notes, then we’d be playing a lullaby at birth, progressing to a Metallica song by the time we are 40. And it only gets faster as we go.

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