North America enjoyed an unseasonably warm April. Our Easter weekend weather was more like summer than spring. It was perfect timing for me to get my soft top roadster out of winter hibernation and let the wind blow through my few remaining hairs while welcoming back the warm sunshine on the open road.
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We heard many inspiring stories and saw numerous examples of personal and team excellence during the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
“The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.”
- Vince Lombardi, American football coach
“At the [...]
By February, many people who resolved to make positive changes this year are floundering. It’s easy to get pulled down by a few slips off our intended path.
Pick up a cup of water or coffee and estimate how heavy it is. Now hold it straight out sideways at shoulder height. How much heavier does [...]
A recent report on crowd control techniques provides a powerful learning reminder for us as we rush into 2010. A major – and sometimes deadly – problem at many large venues with huge crowds such as stadiums or concerts is everyone jamming the exits when it’s time to leave. Engineers in Japan have found a [...]
A New Year’s resolution is too often a good intention that goes in one year and out the other. To change habits we need inspiration and action – or “inspir-action.” Here are action steps to build habits that continually move us out of wallowing, beyond following, to leading:
• This is the perfect time of year to [...]
One evening I was slowly eating my dinner with Heather. She waited and waited for me to finish and finally asked me to hurry up. I told her I was mindfully eating by savoring every bite of the delicious meal she had prepared. She told me to "savor faster."
"Fast savoring" is an apt oxymoron for [...]
“A room without books is as a body without a soul.
Cicero, Roman statesman, orator, and writer
“He was going to write a book… but then he found out you can buy them for $19.95
Unknown
“Your library is your portrait.”
George Holbrook Jackson, British journalist, writer and publisher
“I have sometimes dreamt that when the Day of Judgment dawns and [...]
As I was finishing the finalediting stages of Growing @ the Speed of Change, I was running into huge number of speaking and workshop Clients wrestling with massive personal and organizational change. It certainly was a powerful reaffirmation of the focus and message of the book. And I don’t think it’s just a case [...]
I recently sat through a high energy presentation given by a leading expert on knowledge management. He poured out a numbing array of statistics showing that the world’s knowledge was growing at mind blowing exponential rates. The gist of his presentation was that we needed to re-train our brains to absorb more and more information [...]
“The road to success is always under construction”
Author Unknown
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility
(Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt, American diplomat, writer, US First Lady
“Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He [...]