Today, I woke up thinking about the fact that the past week, I've had a really good week. In the past week, some days I've woken up and I feel good. And because I feel good I'll go for a walk with my mom and all our dogs. Maybe, later on, I'll still feel good, so I'll go and I'll get up on my Peloton and I'll do a bike ride. Obviously. I'm not doing anything hard or performing in any way, but I'm exercising. Exercising lifts my spirits. It makes me feel positive. It makes me feel strong. It make...
Jan 03, 2020•4 min•Ep. 93
Good morning everyone, and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. I was asked yesterday if I always have this positive attitude that I'm going to make it through this and there's no doubt in all of that. Let me tell you that in my whole life, I have learned from the great Tony Robbins, many years ago, that the focus and meaning that we give things and what we choose to do about it create our entire experience of life. Where focus goes, energy flows. In my situation now, if I was focusing on the fac...
Jan 02, 2020•3 min•Ep. 92
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Obviously going through what I'm going through right now, I've been focusing a lot on how I can heal, not only my body, but my mind, my spirit, and my soul. One of the things I wanted to speak with you all about today is the healing power of forgiveness. Think about the people in your life that have either hurt you or disappointed you. Or an experience you had that you feel as hurt you or disappointed you or negatively affected you i...
Dec 29, 2019•4 min•Ep. 91
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to share with you one of my very dear friends who gave me this book "The Dynamic Laws of Healing" by Catherine Ponder. I started reading it last night and I couldn't stop. It was amazing. It all has to do with the thought that dis-ease (or disease) can be caused by an imbalance in your thinking. Thinking negative thoughts or carrying tons of anxiety, worry, fear or guilt can lead to disease in your body because our cell...
Dec 26, 2019•6 min•Ep. 90
Good morning everyone, and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. And Merry Christmas Eve! I feel so incredibly grateful to be home for Christmas. I'm feeling deeply blessed, especially from all the love and support from all of you. I want to share a story with you. I got an email the other day where a person said, "Are you aware of the statistics of your disease and the odds of you surviving this? How are you dealing with that?" I was taken aback by the email because my attitude has always been "I...
Dec 24, 2019•4 min•Ep. 89
Good morning everyone, and welcome to the bed head chronicles. Today, I want to talk about this amazing quote that a dear friend of mine sent to me the other day. It says "Everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for." Let me begin by going back to when I was an athlete. I remember some of the hardest things that happened like getting injured when I was in my prime fitness and ready to go race. I'd get a running injury that would stop me from running. I would think it...
Dec 22, 2019•9 min•Ep. 88
Welcome everyone, and welcome to the bed head chronicles. I've been home for a few days. I was in the hospital for about a week and have been able to be home. During my treatments from home, we drive to the hospital a couple of days a week. It's been amazing being home. Obviously, with a lot of time on my hands, I've been doing a lot of thinking. You all know that my biggest thing is fearless authenticity. Being you. Just like I am right now -- bed head, not making myself made up or anything. I ...
Dec 18, 2019•5 min•Ep. 87
Hi, everybody. Day 7. I got to go home on Friday. So, now we just drive into the hospital to get my treatments. It's early -- 7:30 in the morning. I got my wife up at 5. And it's December 15th. This is her last IV of chemo, for now, for another three weeks! We're so excited. I have to say I was just talking to our amazing nurse here today. The staff at this hospital are amazing at UC Health and Children's hospital. The level of care is just beyond anything I could ever hope for as far as caring ...
Dec 15, 2019•4 min•Ep. 86
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I've obviously been doing a lot of thinking about life and how interesting it can be. We often go through our lives feeling like we are controlling everything we need to in order to get the result that we are hoping for. For example, with me, I've got this great diet and I eat healthily, I exercise, I take care of my mind, body, and spirit -- everything I do with my athletes I do with myself. But there are no guarantees with anyt...
Dec 07, 2019•8 min•Ep. 85
Good morning, everyone. And welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about when somebody in your life -- or you, yourself -- somebody that you love or someone you just hear about is given some really bad news. Just last week, I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. I don't want you to feel sad for me or pity me because I truly believe that God only gives us what he knows we can handle. We are given things that will take us to a whole new level spiritually with the things th...
Dec 05, 2019•8 min•Ep. 84
Today, I want to answer a question that someone asked me on Facebook. They asked, "Siri, what tools and self reminders do you use at the moment to stay the course in telling your truth? Being fearlessly authentic and often choosing discomfort at the moment versus fast, easy and comfortable. Being fearlessly authentic often means choosing discomfort at the moment when one's truth does not line up with the expectations of others. How do you tackle that?" What an amazing question, Karen Burkes! Bas...
Nov 26, 2019•7 min•Ep. 83
Good morning everyone, and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about when we get sick, injured or not feeling our best. How do we support ourselves in those moments? In the past, when I would get an injury as a professional athlete, I would get angry at that body part that got injured. "I can't believe this plantar fascitis is this bad!" I would get angry or upset. Or if we get sick at an inopportune time -- rather than beating up on ourselves in those moments, I think it i...
Nov 22, 2019•3 min•Ep. 82
Good morning everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about the standards that we set for ourselves. Our performance, whether it be in our job, in our sport, our relationships – whatever it is, it depends upon the standards that we set for ourselves. Sometimes we’ll set high standards for our work or sport, and we’ll always do our very best and do everything that we need to do to be the very best we need to be in those things. But then we drop our standards in our r...
Nov 21, 2019•4 min•Ep. 81
Good morning everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about how to be our very best in those most crucial moments. Whether you are racing in a World Championship and you have 200 meters to go to the finish line with just one person in front of you. If you pass them, you’re going to win that World Championship. Or, perhaps, how can hit that goal time coming under 5 hours in a half ironman and you’ve got 30-seconds to go to make it to the finish. Or, perhaps, you’re t...
Nov 20, 2019•4 min•Ep. 80
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about “changing our shoulds in life to musts.” There's a big difference between saying, “I really should start working out and get on a healthy eating plan,” to “I must start eating healthier and start getting fit.” It's a big difference in what that invokes in you. A “should” won't get you moving. It won't call you to action. A “must” makes it absolutely imperative that this gets done. What things in your life ...
Nov 19, 2019•5 min•Ep. 79
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about certain words that we all use a lot to describe tougher moments in our lives. And sometimes when we overuse these words, we start attributing them to tough days that aren't the end of the world. But because we use that word to describe it a word like “devastated.” “I'm just devastated that my package didn't arrive today,” or “I'm devastated that that meeting didn't go the way I wanted it to. Now, the probl...
Nov 18, 2019•6 min•Ep. 78
Good morning, everyone. And welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about certain beliefs that we developed at a very young age that, to this day, could be negatively influencing us. Even sabotaging our efforts to be happy, successful, or thriving in our lives. I woke up thinking about money and the first 4 years of my life. My parents were still together, we lived in a small house listening to Cat Stevens on our old red velvet couch. There was so much love. We didn't have many...
Nov 04, 2019•6 min•Ep. 77
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about how motivated we as humans are by trying to avoid pain. How many times have you said "No" when you really wanted to say "Yes" because you are afraid that it could lead somewhere painful? It could lead to either failure or rejection or pain of some sort. How many times have we backed away from a challenge or said "No" to an incredible opportunity because we were more motivated by avoiding pain than we were ...
Oct 30, 2019•7 min•Ep. 76
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about those things in your life that you may think are constant thorns in your side. Whether it be a situation or relationship or whatever it is. But it's something that causes you constant suffering. I know we all have those things at different points in our lives. But what I want to talk about this morning is that these things that stick around, these thorns in our side -- we get what we tolerate. For as long ...
Oct 29, 2019•5 min•Ep. 75
How did I stay motivated? I was ready to actually retire on that day because I found what I was looking for. But we all know, and you'll find this as you get older, that we are our own harshest critics. The biggest judges of ourselves. I knew that few months down the road, I would start thinking maybe that was a fluke. Did I just get lucky? Was that really me? I didn't want to have to deal with that question. I wanted to prove to me -- I wanted to go out and put together one more year where I pr...
Oct 27, 2019•4 min•Ep. 74
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about the beauty of fall -- of autumn -- and how the incredible leaves, no matter where you are, it's just so beautiful. But then, suddenly, the trees know it's time to let go. They shed their leaves and become bare. But, what they're doing is letting go to open up space and availability to have a rebirth in the spring -- to develop new and different leaves that are more beautiful than before. We often forget to...
Oct 26, 2019•3 min•Ep. 73
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want you to think about how many times -- during the day, during the week, during the month -- that we have the opportunity to be great through small acts of kindness. I think we often underestimate the power of a kind touch, smile, honest compliment, or providing just a caring, listening ear to someone. The power of these small gestures -- these small acts of kindness -- that can truly turn someone's life around. We have an...
Oct 24, 2019•4 min•Ep. 72
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about how we so often acknowledged, appreciate and celebrate the successes or achievements of others so much more than we give our own selves credit for. For example, a friend of yours who hasn't been working out very much goes out has a week where she works out every single day and she's feeling great and she's loving it. You would probably be celebrating them and saying "wow, that's so amazing" My God, that's ...
Oct 23, 2019•5 min•Ep. 71
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about owning your mistakes. Owning it when things don't turn out the way that you hope them to. You all have heard my story of the Olympic trials and where I had prepared for 365 days. I had visualized the perfect race from start to the finish with me crossing the line, Siri Lindley going to the Olympics. What happened was because I had only visualized everything going right, in the first 30 seconds of that race...
Oct 16, 2019•8 min•Ep. 70
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, especially, I have some bed head that puts all my other big heads to shame. Last week, as you know -- just a couple days ago -- was the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii -- the biggest race of the year. This beautiful island is a place where thousands of dreams have come true just by being on that start line and having the opportunity to race on the grandest stage in this sport of swim, bike and run. My athlete, Miri...
Oct 14, 2019•8 min•Ep. 69
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about a book I read recently by Abby Wambach, "Wolfpack." As we all know, Abby Wamback is a legendary soccer player. She led the US women's national team to two Olympic gold medals and scored something like 184 career goals. She's incredible, and this book is an awesome read. One of the things I want to talk about today, which I love and is so important to me, is when she talks about pointing to the people that ...
Oct 09, 2019•4 min•Ep. 68
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about going first -- taking the initiative. If you ever think to yourself, 'I wish people were more grateful. I wish people were more appreciative. I wish people would follow through with their promises,' let's start with ourselves. It's up to us to go first. If you want more love in your life, love first. If you want more appreciation, be appreciative. If you want more gratitude, show more gratitude. If you wan...
Oct 08, 2019•2 min•Ep. 67
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Have you ever thought that you're broken? I know I have many times in my life, and what I realize now is that none of us have broken. We're all just human living the human experience. I believe, at least, when I look back in my own life, that those times when I felt the most broken were the times just preceding a major breakthrough my life that led to something beautiful. Maybe when we feel most broken, it's that we're waking up. Tha...
Oct 06, 2019•4 min•Ep. 66
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles Today. I want you to think of that one decision that you made in your life that turn your entire life around, whether that means -- took you from a really bad place to a good place or a decision that truly took your life to a whole new level. And when I think that the answer to this question for myself, it's the day I consciously decided I will always, always be my own biggest supporter and believe in myself. That, if there's somethin...
Oct 03, 2019•4 min•Ep. 65
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. I woke up this morning thinking about the fact that in any relationship, whether it be your husband or wife, boyfriend girlfriend, your parents, your friends, your co-workers, that I feel happiest is when I feel seen. When I feel heard. When I feel appreciated. And when I feel understood. When I'm getting all these things, I truly feel like I can achieve anything. I can be my very best self every minute because you feel full. You fee...
Sep 28, 2019•3 min•Ep. 64
