Personal Excellence
The Secret to Success from Mexican Outback Runners
I got this book from a friend for Christmas and I started reading it late last week. It’s turned out to be one of those books you just can’t put down. Written by Christopher McDougall, a former war correspondent for the AP and now a contributing editor for Men’s Health, the story is primarily about [...]
How to be successful AND stay married
I’m a huge fan of Inc. Magazine. I love two things about it. First, it just works – the magazine is laid out intelligently, offers great content and just looks good. More importantly, and the real reason I’m such a fan, is the real-world context that permeates almost all of the articles, whether written by [...]
Just in Time – Destressing the holidays
One of the “rules” I always read relevant to professional blogging is to subscribe to lots of blogs that stretch you in different directions, or you just find interesting. I follow that rule, and one of the blogs I follow is called Simple Mom. Her blog’s tagline (I assume “her”, but these days who knows) [...]
If we did it for them…
There are many ways to learn, and part of the path to personal and professional excellence is not only making the commitment and focusing on self-development, but also discovering and creating learning opportunities. While we can create many of our learning opportunities on our own, I also believe that learning opportunities perfectly suited for where [...]
More advice from dogs
I love those “all I ever needed to know in life I learned from my dog” posters. Driving home from work the other night, I noticed a small sticker on the side of a car I was passing, that I thought was a great summary of all that dog wisdom: Wag more. Bark less.
Training to be excellent
Out for a run today, it occured to me that my approach to training translates well to personal excellence: Push UP the hills, recover DOWN the hills, and SPRINT to the finish
Own your room
If you are not reading Chris Guillebeau’s blog The Art of Nonconformity, you should be. Chris regularly writes on three topics: life, work and travel. His view on work, and life, is that you don’t have to live your life the way people expect you to and if you don’t decide what you want to [...]
low tech
DCO reader and friend Lauren, recently sent me a Harvard Business Publishing’s Management “tip of the day” she found interesting. The teaser title in the E-mail was The Simple Way to Capture Big Ideas. Clicking through, the actual article’s heading was The Next Big Idea in Management. There must have been something pretty special in [...]
Thought for the day
Figuring out who you are is the easy part; being who you are is the challenge.
1440
Reminiscent of the biblical parable, what would you do with $1,440 if I gave it to you today? Invest it, spend it, or stick it in the bank? What would you do if I gave you $1,440 every day? Well my friends, you do get 1,440 every day – not in dollars but in minutes. [...]
