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Go for a Walk
It is Sunday where I live and the sun is shining. I don’t really need a reason or an excuse to go for a walk. Since the 10,000 step craze started we usually add 10 to 20k to the counter. It isn’t just...
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Lotto Mentality
I admit that I have dreamed of winning the lottery and bought PowerBall tickets when it was over $500 Million. I buy Lotto649 and Home lotteries and imagine winning. But I don’t obsess with the long...
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The Gift of Fear
Years ago I read Gavin DeBeccker’s ” The Gift of Fear” and then bought numerous copies for all my team and talked about the thesis every week for a couple of years. Yesterday I was at a screening of...
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Yesterday was Remarkable
And I am sure today will be likewise. I was in meetings yesterday morning with folks from foundations, financial institutions, and innovative entrepreneurs discussing ‘capital for a cause’. It was...
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Kindness
From “Random Acts of Kindness” “Imagine a world. Where people look out for each other. Where we all pay it forward. Where success is measured in selfless acts. Where kindness is the philosophy of...
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Clear Your Head
The idiom “clear your head” usually means relax so you can think clearly. This morning on my run, I realized that my head was crammed with schedules, appointments, problems, worries, opportunities,...
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We are all in the Boat
Whether I can smile, or you can sing,or she can lift, or he will row -we are all in the same boat. Any success we have is a result of smiling when I can, pulling where we are able, resting when we...
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Balancing the Books
Where I live, we just had the government present a budget with a $10Biliion deficit and a forecast that we won’t be back to balancing the accounts until 2024. I have been thinking about the...
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Are Being the Best You?
I find that when I am at my best, I am taking care of my health; mental and physical and taking care of those in proximity to me; my family and my community. The tasks I am undertaking aren’t nearly as...
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Giving up a Bit of Control
As always, I think I have most stuff under control. I plow ahead as if I am on the right track and mostly because I believe I am right. I am not always. Yesterday, I had a couple of reminders that i...
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Ready, Fire, Aim and Fire Again
Planning can be helpful, planning perfection can be paralyzing. I am reading Next City’s The Future of Street Design and am amazed at the pilots that are described that bypassed red tape in favor of...
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Anticipation
Is there something lurking around a corner? Is there a niggling nudging your noggin? Is your heart a twitter with excitement of the unknown moment ahead? I have been carrying an edge of not quite...
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Moral Compass
As a society, we seem to be driven or at least conditioned to head towards an economic north. The magnetism revolves around an as yet to be disproved theory about markets, capital and people. We are...
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Is Enough ever Enough?
How much stuff do we need to fill our lives? How much stuff do we need to maintain our homes, yards, or toys? Does everyone need a lawnmower or can two/three neighbours share? You would save money,...
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POST #21: The Choice Paradox’s Paradox
Isabel Thanks for the post. Singing In The Rain The Choice Paradox is an interesting theory, first named as such by the economist Barry Schwartz, in his 2004 book of the same name, subtitled ‘Why More...
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Opportunity
The expected and unexpected is ripe with opportunity, it is a matter of observation and perspective. Even if you are starting today with a same-old habitual activity (doing Saturday morning laundry)...
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Learning
I try to learn something new every day. In my areas of interest; religion, urbanization, community development, coaching, running, and sociology I receive blasts, books and blogs from the best and the...
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This Could be My Last Race
From yesterday’s “Smart Running Workshop” – strengthening over stretching, rolling might provide relief but does very little else, runs greater that 3 hours cause damage that accumulates and have fun...
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Personal Best
The idea of a personal best is motivating (or it can be). We should be striving for improvement every day but seeing a project done to a higher standard, an art piece reflecting your growing skill, a...
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