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If there’s one best thing I’ve learned from distance running and cycling, it is this. You will encounter pain, setbacks, frustration and lack of desire with any physical activity you take on. Any one of these can be a reason to hang up your shoes or park your bike. Or it can be a catalyst…
Whether you call it a shameless publicity stunt or sincere effort to raise money for cancer research, you are right. I laid down a challenge that I would roller skate 1 mile for every $50 raised in a 2-week period and my generous friends came through with $510!! So I am skating 10 miles today…
I’m too old to get real gifts for my birthday. After a certain age, you start getting “gag” gifts in basic black with an “over the hill” theme, along with Geritol, Depends and AARP subscriptions… and I still have my sense of humor about it. But this year I am going to ask for something…
Presidential election season is fun isn’t it? Our mostly two-sided party system divides our country almost neatly in half. Like medieval armies, both left and right have their absolute diehards who hang out at the edges of the battlefield shooting verbal arrows into the air at the other side. If you are convinced that one…
Someone asked me why I always sit in the front row at company all hands meetings. I also sit in the front row at church, in classes or when I’m listening to a motivational speaker. The main reason is the same for all of these. And no, it’s not because I am a brown-nosing teacher’s…
Do you ever freeze up when you get tough questions from your manager, or just start spitting out words and hope they eventually end up making sense? Once a month Cisco’s CEO John Chambers gets face to face with employees who have birthdays in that month, and takes questions in a town hall format. I…
I had a dead battery epiphany last week on my evening run. My GPS battery went out after 2 miles, but I decided to go ahead and run my 10 miles anyway and figure out my average pace at the end. Usually I’m watching my real time pace and trying to stay at 8:50, which…
Raise your hand if your life is going exactly as you planned. That’s what I thought… no hands going up. It doesn’t mean your life is not wonderful. Many milestones and mountain top experiences are complete surprises. And since no one ever asks for dark, challenging times, I’d say they are outside the plan as…
Thirty cold, wet, white plastic stairs. You’re grasping the shiny chrome handrails, careful to hang on with each step up. As you rise higher in the air you get a whole new perspective on the landscape and your friends on the concrete pool deck below. You’ve seen others go off the public pool high dive,…
I wrote a letter to my future self on New Year’s Eve, 2011, essentially laying out my goals for this year. Since it is half way through 2012, let’s take a look at what I projected and what’s yet to be done. Publishing my goals has been my key to accountability. How am I doing?…