Just for a little while, stop thinking about all the problems, crises, tasks. everything that’s pulling and pushing on us. Be in that quiet space. After all these years, some of us still need permission to let go.
Image Credit: Nowandthan
Driving. With Mellencamp.
March 28, 2013 By 21 Comments
Shut down PC.
Stuff my briefcase with weekend reading. I Smile.
Another form of Exercise in futility.
I won’t get to it.
Slump into car. Spent.
4-day week. Felt like six.
Pre Good Friday weekend traffic backed up on 95.
Stealing glances at blackberry.
Flicking through iTunes list.
Land on Mellencamp. John Mellencamp.
Hurts So Good.
When I was a young boy
Said put away those young boy ways
Now that I’m gettin’ older
So much older
I love all those young boy days
Memories flood. Awed.
How? How a mere few bars can take you back.
To a moment. In 1982. A technicolor and edited version. [Read more...]
T.G.I.F.: When my inbox is getting flooded with emails
February 22, 2013 By 25 Comments
I am here on purpose…
January 8, 2013 By 44 Comments
Six days back at work…after a two week vacation.
Tension. Decompression. Recharge. Ramp-up. Escalation. Full engagement. Tension.
Full loop restored.
And, cycle time is compressing year over year.
Meetings. Emails. 2013 Planning. Events. Phone calls. Problems. Opportunities. Running. Faster.
In a momentary gap in my schedule…a mental image of this photo flickers by…a photo tripped into during the recharging phase of vacation. Image darts in and out for days. Pulling me back to a time when life was simpler. When picking sweet, juicy Bing cherries and filling the bucket was the task of the day.
I am here on purpose... [Read more...]
Hump Day: Stress – Can YOU handle it?
November 14, 2012 By 14 Comments
Related Posts:
- Having now reached Hump Day, I can’t tell…
- Hump Day Inspiration: One-Two. One-Two. One-Two!!!!!
- Hump Day Inspiration: True Heroism is…
- Hump Day Inspiration #2: Go, make something happen…
- Hump Day Inspiration #1: Some days, you just can’t run fast enough…
- Hump Day: 2 Signs The Week Is Far From Over…
- Wednesday: Hump Day Exercise…
- Wednesday is Hump Day
Get Up. Get Out. Don’t Sit.
November 3, 2012 By 23 Comments
“…New research this month finds that the more time someone spends sitting, the shorter and less robust his or her life may be. The findings were sobering: Every single hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduces the viewer’s life expectancy by 21.8 minutes. By comparison, smoking a single cigarette reduces life expectancy by about 11 minutes. Looking more broadly, they concluded that an adult who spends an average of six hours a day watching TV over the course of a lifetime can expect to live 4.8 years fewer than a person who does not watch TV. Those results hold true even for people who exercise regularly. It appears a person who does a lot of exercise but watches six hours of TV every night might have a similar mortality risk as someone who does not exercise and watches no TV…” [Read more...]
Sunday Morning: Happy
October 28, 2012 By 11 Comments
I watched a movie on Netflix yesterday called “Happy.” It is a shortish ~70 minute documentary which blends the current research on what makes people happy with heart warming human interest stories. Research has found 50% of our happiness is genetic and that we return to a range of happiness within “our genetic set point.” A mere 10% of happiness is determined by our job, our economic status, our social status and our health. A whopping 40% is determined by intentional activity and behavior that we choose.
This is a Sunday morning “feeling” movie. I’ve shared a short movie trailer below. If you haven’t seen it, I would encourage you to do so. No pun intended, but it puts you in a happy place.
I came upon a post on a widely followed blog I follow called Barking Up The Wrong Tree. The post is titled What Ten Things Should You Do Everyday To Improve Your Life and it summarizes many of the key recommendations in this documentary. I have included key excerpts below: [Read more...]
Stressed? Try Butterflies.
October 16, 2012 By 22 Comments
Fifteen years ago, I would have told you to get out of my office (get out of my face) and stop wasting my time. 10 years ago, I would have called “bulls-” on this malarkey. Today, the image above calms me. And I’ve come to believe that I need this…It’s good for me. It’s good for the team around me. (But let’s not get too excited. I’m a toddler here. I’m on the 3rd step of a 107 step program.) And since it has now been endorsed by the Truth, the Wall Street Journal, I’m in. (:) Lao Tzu (604 BC – 531 BC): “A Journey of a Thousand Miles Takes a Single Step”…Time to take that step… [Read more...]
Reach as high as you can…
October 15, 2012 By 40 Comments
And if they are chocolate chip, you’ve hit gold.
Source: Marc Johns. Marc Johns lives with his wife, two sons, and his drawer full of pens in Victoria, BC, Canada.
Related Marc Johns Post: Sometimes the only thing left to do is…
How much I enjoy air travel…
September 28, 2012 By 33 Comments
I was returning home from Chicago today. Ominous skies were threatening our return. Weather reports from home are gloomy – thunderstorms and heavy rains are pounding the NYC region. The flight is full. The mood among the passengers is surly…no one is up for an extended delay, or worse, a cancelation heading into the weekend. Yet, the flight is off, and on time and largely uneventful. We circle for 15 minutes over NYC as air traffic is backed up. We land. A few minutes late but the relief in the cabin is palpable.
We’re on the tarmac. An elderly lady three rows back is on her cell phone calling a family member. In a voice that is heard 8-10 rows in each direction, she let them know “THAT I’LL BE A BIT LATE AND THERE IS NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.” She carries on her phone conversation on her stay in Chicago and her plans for the weekend. Then, there’s a moment of silence. And, she’s back on the phone. This time with her car service. Her piercing voice is echoing up and down the tube. ”GIVE ME YOUR NUMBER! I’LL NEED TO CALL YOU FROM BAGGAGE CLAIM. NO I NEED YOUR NUMBER. 212-656-. WHAT WAS THAT AGAIN? 212-65X? SPEAK LOUDER.” This goes back and forth several times until she manages to get the number. Then, there’s another moment of silence and she’s back on the phone with another family member. ”I SHOULDN’T BE TOO LATE.” The conversation continues for several minutes at a raised decibel level. There’s another moment of silence and she’s back on the phone again. [Read more...]
21 Swings
September 19, 2012 By 40 Comments
“Every spring, an interactive installation takes over a high-traffic area in Montréal’s Quartier des spectacles and sets a collective ritual. The installation offers a fresh look at the idea of cooperation, the notion that we can achieve more together than separately. The result is a giant instrument made of 21 musical swings; each swing in motion triggers different notes, all the swings together compose a piece, but some sounds only emerge from cooperation. The project stimulates ownership of the public space, bringing together people of all ages and backgrounds, and creating a place for playing and hanging out in the middle of the city centre. A traveling version of the project is currently being made for these collective moments to spread around the world.”
21 Balançoires (21 Swings) from Daily Tous Les Jours on Vimeo.
Failed. 3x. Pathetic. Zen-Man-Do, Where-Are-You?
September 17, 2012 By 55 Comments
Long day. Very long day. I needed this. While my fingers are tapping the mouse (time to go, time to move on, time to go, batta bing, batta bang, go, go, go, GO, GO), I’m thinking Tom Ross. He could do it. 10 minutes without interruption. I was thinking Mimi. She’s chanting Peace. Gentle. Calm. Peace. Gentle. Calm. She’s smiling. She’s framing wonderfully crafted sentences readying herself to drop a comment. Anake’s mind is whirring as he’s watching the waves lap the shoreline. Lori is off in New Zealand while she’s petting her dogs on her ride. Francine’s saying a prayer and staring at the beauty wondering how they captured the shot. Stephen is mentally replaying his cross-country run – this is kid’s play for the Ironman. Keith is chanting his Sutras and Suttas. Ivon has drifted away to the Canadian Rockies. Laurie willed herself to get through. Sandy is mentally drawing and could have run this for 15 minutes. Indira has moved to another peaceful planet. I bet even Michael Brown can manage to get this done. (No offense Michael.)
And me? I’m banging the mouse on my head.
Go ahead.
Hit this link.
Tell me how you did.
Source: utspiro
Running…with Jung.
September 3, 2012 By 27 Comments
6:17am: I’m up and out the door. It’s a beautiful morning for running. Wisps of cool air cutting through the early September humidity. Streaks of clouds cover the sunrise. A splash of color on a few trees getting a head start on autumn. It’s September 3rd. And a great day to be alive. (Hello September. Where did the year go? Love, LOVE, the fall season. The pulsating picture above feels like my heart does now. Ba Boom. Ba Boom. Ba Boom. Ba Boom. Keep tickin’ baby. Keep tickin’.)
6:23am: Pace is good. Both jets feel good. No one is out and about. Pesky squirrels are sleeping. Even the birds are quiet. (Yep, it’s just me and my head. And that can get crowded. Managed to contain the food intake yesterday. Miracle. Determined to get this weight down before the hibernation period. As Brenna would say, Thanksgiving is the time of the year “when I feel like I’ve eaten a gallon of mashed potatoes and a gravy-injected turkey and washed it down with six or seven espressos.”)
You need 4 Positives to offset 1 Negative
August 29, 2012 By 23 Comments
Source: WSJ - Self-Help For Skeptics.
- Self-compassionate people are happier…(it) helps people overcome life’s little, and not-so-little stressors
- You can train your brain to focus on the positive – even if you’re wired to see the glass as half empty
- To enjoy life and feel good, people need roughly four positive emotions to counteract the effect of one negative emotion
- Instead of “pushing through” a bad day, look for ways to actively improve it. Take a small break. Get an ice-cream cone. Invite a friend out to dinner.
- Resist the urge to make your problems worse. “Ask yourself, How much of my distress is the real problem, and how much is stuff I am heaping on myself unnecessarily?”
- Boost your daily ratio of positive-to-negative emotions…What do you enjoy doing? Seeing your best buddy, watching a funny movie, walking in the park? Make a list and do one a day.
- Then list things you really don’t enjoy. Are there people who bring you down? Hobbies that no longer interest you? Errands you can delegate? Some of this stuff can be avoided.
- If you don’t feel happy, fake it. You wouldn’t constantly burden a friend with your bad mood, so don’t burden yourself. Try holding a pencil horizontally in your mouth. “This activates the same muscles that create a smile, and our brain interprets this as happiness,”…
See full article @ WSJ – Self-Help For Skeptics. Train Your Brain to Be Positive, and Feel Happier Every Day: It Only Sounds Corny
Image Source: carnetimaginaire via showslow
Katharine Hepburn: Grind it out…
August 20, 2012 By 19 Comments
“The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.”
~ Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003)
Source: areaofinterest via marcdesa
Read to lead.
August 17, 2012 By 33 Comments
From HBR Blog Network: For Those Who Want to Lead, Read. (DK: I believe all of this to be true.)
“…For the first time in American history, “less than half of the U.S. adult American population is reading literature.”
“…This is terrible for leadership, where trends are even more pronounced. Business people seem to be reading less — particularly material unrelated to business. But deep, broad reading habits are often a defining characteristic of our greatest leaders and can catalyze insight, innovation, empathy, and personal effectiveness.”
“…And history is littered not only with great leaders who were avid readers and writers (remember, Winston Churchill won his Nobel prize in Literature, not Peace), but with business leaders who believed that deep, broad reading cultivated in them the knowledge, habits, and talents to improve their organizations.”
“…Evidence suggests reading can improve intelligence and lead to innovation and insight…reading makes you smarter through “a larger vocabulary and more world knowledge in addition to the abstract reasoning skills.” Reading…is one of the quickest ways to acquire and assimilate new information.” [Read more...]
Guest Post: The Final Act of Love
August 14, 2012 By 16 Comments
I asked Mimi, my blogger friend, to write a guest post for my blog while I was on vacation. I have come to value her friendship, her thoughtful comments and her inspiration – as if she was a member of my family. And now, those of you who don’t follow her, will see why. Her post below is so beautiful. So inspiring. So touching. Bless you Mimi…you moved me this morning.
By Mimi @ Waiting For The Karma Truck
I’m a sky-gazer. It makes for some very dramatic tumbles and some slapstick recoveries to a standing position (degree of difficulty depends upon the severity of my clumsiness – but some could qualify as Olympic-level gymnastic floor routines). This need to look up and out is not folly, it’s my dad. I’ve been aiming my perspective upwards for nine years.
There’s so much written about father/daughter relationships that I hesitate to even tiptoe around this topic. I fret that my words will sound cliched and not really offer much to a potentially tired topic. But, there was nothing tired or trite about the man – and the insistent tapping of rain on the skylights in my kitchen suggests to me that he feels quite confident that there is more to say. [Read more...]
One word.
August 14, 2012 By 23 Comments
Running…Away.
August 13, 2012 By 27 Comments
5:35am: I’m up and out the door. The rest of the gang is sound asleep (Day 3 of vacation. Day 1 of running after a week sabbatical. I needed to rest the jet. Have to say the condition of my knee spooked me. 30 years ago, I could fall from pine trees, slip head long on slimy river rocks fishing with cousins, get chopped on ankle by a nasty Trail Smoke Eater – - and spring back like a slinky. No more. Dark thoughts encroach – - will I heal or will this knee-thing be biting me the rest of the ride?)
5:40am: I find the sign for the Mountain Trail. (There are 3 trails. Walking. Intermediate. Mountain. I’m a Man, right? Mountain it is. ‘Throw caution to the wind.’ Knee be damned.) [Read more...]
Running. With a bad jet.
August 5, 2012 By 24 Comments
6:15am. 77°F and 89% relative humidity. I walk out the door and air is thick and soupy. (Hmmmm. Maybe this sauna will accelerate the decomposition of the Oreo cookie intake yesterday. Count: 16. Yep. Strapped on the feedbag and ravenously wolfed ‘em down. But lets be balanced here. This was spread over lunch and dinner – not so bad when looking at it this way – a modest amount actually. I don’t think this even adds up to a full row.)
0.5 miles: I feel a pinch in my right knee. The pinch advances to bite. I grimace. (D*mn weekend warrior. I slow the pace but don’t stop. “Run through it.” I recall the 2007 NY Times article – ‘We want you to keep moving…injured tissue heals quicker if it’s under stress…moderate exercise aids the healing.’ 5 year old article and its stuck with me.)
1 mile: It’s not going away. Limp-running now. Slow pace further. (So, where’s the d*mn moderate exercise will heal part. Healing can show up anytime now. I’m almost walking know. Sweat is raining down…and tastes a bit creamy. (Oreos?) You would think this humidity would be lubing my knee. Odd, my right shoulder is stiff now. Oh, yea. Re-started my push-up routine yesterday. Man, my entire carriage is coming apart! Another 1/2 mile and we’ll need to call 911. As long as I don’t keel over into all of this Goose dung and avoid rolling into the cove…I should be ok.)
This is your brain on drugs. This is your brain on…
July 24, 2012 By 24 Comments
Losing a step?
July 12, 2012 By 21 Comments
So. What. Is. Eating. At. You.
Restless nights. And sleeping in. (No.)
Work load doubling down. (Nope.)
Aching muscles after work-out with longer recovery times. (Not at all.)
Need higher volume to hear music. To watch tube. (Illusion. No way.)
Breathless after walking up the stairs. (Not really. Annoying though.)
The extra pounds. (Contributing but not core. Not buying new pants.)
Receding hair line. (Be lying if it didn’t tug at me a wee bit.)
Eyesight deteriorating. (Thank God I can still read. But no.)
Pending Empty Nester drag. (Maybe.)
Forgetting peoples’ names. Often. (Hmmmm. Sign of…)
“It’s not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.”
~ C.S. Lewis
“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”
~ Neil Gaiman
Image Source: Marcdesa. Quote Sources: seabois & French Touch X
Related Posts:
Mission for today…
July 12, 2012 By 13 Comments
“The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it,” says bestselling author Jonah Lehrer. Examining recent research into what drives creative insights, Lehrer breaks down how and why we have “aha!” moments, using examples that range from Bob Dylan writing “Like A Rolling Stone” to a Tibetan monk’s zen puzzle-solving powers. But insight isn’t everything. Those who achieve great things in the long-term also have another important quality: Grit, a single-minded persistence that helps them keep their eye on the prize and pushing ever-forward even when the “aha!” moments aren’t around.
Image Source: abirdeyeview via graff14
Related Posts:
- Worried about your job? Hope is not a strategy…
- The Best Job Is The One You Have…
- We’re are a society of NOW, NOW, NOW. Yet, The easy money is gone. Overnight success is impossible. Grab the shovel and start digging…
- 10,000 hours of concerted practice to become an expert. How much time are you investing in your own development?
- Feeling Blah about work?
- Chasing Yet Another Brass Ring…
- The Thought-Patterns of Success…
- 25% of job success is predicted by I.Q. 75% is predicted by your optimism levels…
- Whining Is Not An Exit Strategy
Achieving Mastery in Mind Control With Repetition (Lots of it…)
July 6, 2012 By 20 Comments
I came across this image last night and for some reason, I couldn’t shake it.
So, here’s a short list of HIGH volume REPETITIVE activities where I have achieved advanced Mind Control:
- Waking up by 4am (mastery level)
- Dessert (sweet @ every meal)
- Reading (anything, anytime)
- Showing up on time (every time)
- Goal pursuit (dog-on-bone)
- Electronic Gadgets (man-thing)
- Getting lost (with GPS)
How do you breathe?
July 5, 2012 By 18 Comments
Whether you love, hate or are indifferent about fly fishing, I’ll bet this clip takes your pulse up and then quickly down to a calm, peaceful state in less than two minutes…
Related Posts:
- Symmetry…
- Walk in Nature
- Soak in San Francisco
- Tap. Tap. Tap. On the heart…
- Of Souls & Water…
- Africa in Black & White
- Beauty in Motion
- Sunday Morning: We are all connected…
- I watch. I can’t break my stare. And, calm settles in…
- Life is Color (and 250,000 Bouncy Balls)
- Everything In Its Right Place
- What If It Rained. We Didn’t Care
- If Your Heart Is Bleeding, Make the Best of It.
- It Gets Better
- Friday Night Mesmerized
Worried about your job? Hope is not a strategy…
July 3, 2012 By 15 Comments
HBR Blog Network: “…It would take something like 1,000 hours — and maybe a lot longer — to recover from a forced career change…
…If disaster were to hit, you’d like to believe that you could find another job. Well, as the cliché goes, hope is not a strategy. Especially in this job market.
…It certainly seems we are running harder and harder to keep up with the required knowledge in our specialized fields. What would you actually have to invest in order to stay in this race? In this race, information is the tiger and there doesn’t seem to be an end to how fast the tiger can run. But remember, the good news is that you don’t have to outrun the tiger. You simply have to outrun your competitors, people like you who are going to be looking for a job, once their industry becomes obsolete…”
Stop. Watch. Feel your pulse rate slow…
June 28, 2012 By 19 Comments
A mixture of coloured water and milk shot at 5000 frames per second.
Image Source: Explore
Related Posts:
- I watch. I can’t break my stare. And, calm settles in…
- Life is Color (and 250,000 Bouncy Balls)
- Painting With Sound (and Colors!)
- Beauty in Motion
- A Highly Condensed Happiness Espresso
- Human Kaleidoscope…
- Everything In Its Right Place
- What If It Rained. We Didn’t Care
- If Your Heart Is Bleeding, Make the Best of It.
- It Gets Better
- Friday Night Mesmerized
Why you and Calvin may have had a tough day…
June 26, 2012 By 18 Comments
Source: This Isn’t Happiness
Related Posts:
- How do YOU see the Glass?
- Should I have a cookie?
- Time Management (not)…
- Scared of the dark?
- Your working habits before a deadline?
- Induced Anxiety v. Time Until Deadline…
- Cheetos and the cycle of self improvement…
- Sanity and Tweets…
- Things to do when the internet is down…
- “How much you know” vs. “How much you believe you know”…
- 2 Signs The Week Is Far From Over…
- Hump Day Exercise…
The “Boredom” Test…
June 19, 2012 By 19 Comments
Brainpickings.com shared a post on the Anatomy of Boredom. I’m drawn to personality self-tests like a moth to flame. This test boosted the ole’ psyche this morning: My Score – 79. (Naturally that led me to think that there is something wrong with me if I’m such an outlier with my great score.) Check out the entire post to find what researchers say a high or medium boredom score means for you.
The statements to follow can be answered using a 7-point scale — from ’1′ (highly disagree), to ’4′ (neutral), to ’7′ (highly agree).
To find out your own proneness to boredom, add up the total of the scores you gave each question and see results below:
Appreciate that our civilization has not as yet been evaporated by a supernova…
June 18, 2012 By 21 Comments
Here are some excerpts from Sal Khan’s 2012 commencement address at MIT. Go to Explore for an excellent post and the video of his remarks:
“Remember that real success is maximizing your internally derived happiness. It will not come from external status or money or praise. It will come from a feeling of contribution. A feeling that you are using your gifts in the best way possible.”
“…Start every morning with a smile — even a forced one — it will make you happier. Replace the words “I have to” with “I get to” in your vocabulary. Smile with your mouth, your eyes, your ears, your face, your body at every living thing you see. Be a source of energy and optimism. Surround yourself with people that make you better. Realize or even rationalize that the grass is truly greener on your side of the fence. Just the belief that it is becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy…
The moment you realize that you are currently happy…
June 13, 2012 By 12 Comments
kairosclerosis
n. the moment you realize that you’re currently happy—consciously trying to savor the feeling—which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it’s little more than an aftertaste.
Sources: Quote – Thank you crashinglybeautiful via larmoyante. Artist: Danny O’Conner via seattleinspired (thanks again)
Related Posts:
- Sometimes everything…
- Most of us stand poised of brilliance, but…
- Day, you have gone…
- Before you know kindness…
- Burn down that house…
- To arrive at the unshakeable…
- Boom, boom, boom, boom…
- Nothing more beautiful than…
- You are a never-ending, always unfolding Being…
- The law of life is this: All things both good and evil are constructed from an image held in mind
Chasing Yet Another Brass Ring…
June 12, 2012 By 13 Comments
“Sometimes we refuse to believe that the brass rings have lost their luster–we just need higher-quality rings! We’ll get another degree at an even better school, and a more demanding job at an even more competitive firm with an even bigger compensation package! And sometimes this works, for a while. But never forever. At some point we realize that we may have amassed a truly impressive collection of brass rings, but A) we’re making ourselves miserable in the process, and/or B) brass rings don’t provide meaning or purpose or love, and/or C) we really are mortal, and at some point in the rapidly approaching future all the brass rings in the world won’t be worth a goddamn thing.”
– Ed Batista
I encourage you to read Ed’s entire post at: Brass Rings & Railroad Tracks
Image Source: The Novac
Related Posts:
- The Rat Race (Iulian Novac @ TheNovac.Wordpress.com)
- “The Rhythm Of Life” (Waiting for the Karma Truck)
- Lessons From My Reinvention (Great Moments)
- The Thought-Patterns of Success…
- Stress Test…
- Imperfection is not our personal problem…
- Gnawing sense of anxiety about un-captured work…
EOW Wrap…Friday Five.
June 8, 2012 By 14 Comments
Feeling like the big guy here after the end of a long week. Here’s my Friday Five Recap for the week:
T.G.I.F.: How hard can this be?
June 1, 2012 By 31 Comments
…Apparently very hard. A polar bear smells a seal under the ice. Unfortunately for the bear, the ice is too thick.
Source: headlikeanorange via Planet Earth Live – BBC
Related Posts:
- T.G.I.F.: “How much more can a man take?”
- T.G.I.F. (5/18/12)
- Pictorial Week in Review
- T.G.I.F. 5/4/12
- T.G.I.F. 4/27/12
- T.G.I.F. 4/20/12
- T.G.I.F. 4/13/12
- T.G.I.F. 3/30/12
- T.G.I.F. 3/23/12
Weekend Roundup…(including The Denali Climb by 5 Wounded Warriors with 4 Good Legs Between Them…)
May 26, 2012 By 6 Comments
Here’s some noteworthy leading, learning & living articles that I came across this week …
Forbes: Intelligence Is Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed. “Albert Einstein’s was estimated at 160, Madonna’s is 140, and John F. Kennedy’s was only 119, but as it turns out, your IQ score pales in comparison with your EQ, MQ, and BQ scores when it comes to predicting your success and professional achievement.”
(((Note to Tom Hood: Thanks for sharing. Thank goodness Intelligence research is moving in my direction. 
)))
WSJ: Mom Was Right: Go Outside. “Children spend more than 4 hours a day with technology and there’s no longer time for nature…latest research – untamed landscapes have a restorative effect, calming our frazzled nerves…after a brief exposure to the outdoors, people are more creative, happier and better able to focus.”
(((Note: And here I sit, inside, banging away on keyboard. Hmmmmm.)))
Missed your work out yesterday? (this week? this month?) Forgetaboutit…
May 26, 2012 By 20 Comments
Nick Crocker, a personal coach who helps people lead more active lives, had an excellent post in the HBR Blog Network called Find Exercise in Life’s Margins. Here’s a few excerpts:
“You consider yourself a fit, active person. But, like most busy professionals, you want to exercise more…And then time and again, life just gets in the way. You’re too busy. You work too late…You book a breakfast meeting. You have work and social commitments that you just can’t miss. And in all the chaos, exercise gets squeezed out. This, in reality, is most people’s experience of exercise.
The reality is, those spare hours in the week are not going to materialize. We need to come up with a different solution. The key is to find exercise in the daily flow of your life. Doing so will boost your productivity, performance and job satisfaction.”
T.G.I.F.: “How much more can a man take?”
May 25, 2012 By 12 Comments
fairy-wren: grey heron hitching a ride
Related Posts:
- T.G.I.F. (5/18/12)
- Pictorial Week in Review
- T.G.I.F. 5/4/12
- T.G.I.F. 4/27/12
- T.G.I.F. 4/20/12
- T.G.I.F. 4/13/12
- T.G.I.F. 3/30/12
- T.G.I.F. 3/23/12
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call. Take 2 (“The Beast”)
May 21, 2012 By 18 Comments
We had roosters…but nothing like this!
Source: Excessive Rooster – Jest Video via Mme Scherzo. Thank you Todd Lohenry for posting assistance.
Related Posts:
- Monday Morning Wake-up Call (5/14/12)
- Monday Morning Wake-Up Call (5/7/12)
- Monday Morning Wake-Up Call (4/30/12)
- Monday Morning Wake-Up Call (4/23/12)
- Monday Morning Wake-Up Call (4/16/12)
- Monday Morning Wake-Up Call (4/9/12)
- Monday Morning Wake-Up Call (4/2/12)
- Monday Morning Wake-Up Call (3/26/12)
- Monday Morning Wake-up Call (3/19/12)
T.G.I.F.
May 18, 2012 By 16 Comments
Source: Adapted from Themetapicture
Related Posts:
- Pictorial Week in Review
- T.G.I.F. 5/4/12
- T.G.I.F. 4/27/12
- T.G.I.F. 4/20/12
- T.G.I.F. 4/13/12
- T.G.I.F. 3/30/12
- T.G.I.F. 3/23/12
(Very) little things, but maddening…
May 12, 2012 By 26 Comments
Opening ketchup top. Finding dried sludgy all over the top from prior user. (Yuckkkkkkk!) - Putting on wrong color socks. (What exactly is the rush?)
- Morning weigh-in: 2 lbs up (Weak man)
- Waiting. For anything. For anyone. (7 minute limit before hyperventilation sets in)
- 1 hour of work. PC crashes. No back-up. (How many times has this happened? When…when will you learn?)
- Deep scuff on toe cap of dress shoes trying to extricate myself from cab. (Can cabbies push front seat any further back?)
- Road trip. Forgetting toiletry case at home. (Or belt. Or tie. Or shirt.)
- Splash salad dressing on new tie. And then proceed to smudge spot larger with napkin. (2x maddening. Blood pressure surges.) [Read more...]
Your existence…
Sorry, can’t stop laughing.
Source: creatingaquietmind