Whether you’ve lost your job recently or are looking to make a career change, the current job market can leave you feeling like tiny minnow in a deep and treacherous sea. The waters are murky, you’re swimming against the current and you’re sure that lots of younger, tastier fish are out there with their eyes on your worm.

I am going into my 10th year as a fitness professional, and each year I seem to improve and evolve my training philosophy. That is one thing that I love about my profession. There are always ways to improve my craft. This year in particular has been a huge epiphany for me in the way I would like to train my members and clients here at State of Fitness in the year 2012.

There isn’t anything funny about cancer but it did change my life and some of the changes, like wearing a wig on a windy day, were surprising. I once thought my wig had blown off and after searching for it under and around the car, I found it in the hood of the jacket I was wearing. A week later, I was filling up the gas tank on a windy day, and mindful of the previous experience, had one hand on the pump and the other on the top of my head. The man at the pump ahead of me commented, “Mighty windy today – good thing you’re not wearing a wig.”

Just this past October there was an outbreak in the Detroit area of a disease that claimed the lives of more than a dozen dogs. The cause of this tragic loss is a bacterium known as Leptospira. It is spread primarily through contact with the victim’s urine. Without prompt, very rigorous treatment, within days due to multiple organ failure, most of those infected succumb. Sadly, if these pets had been properly immunized not one would have gotten ill, let alone died.