It was ~6:45 this morning (cold and wintry). I was parked, doing some work in the car before participating in an early-morning business event. I was evidently on high-ground. I looked-up for a moment and saw the most beautiful, unobstructed "moon set" in the west. I turned the other direction out of curiousity and took-in the beginning of the energizing sunrise in the east.
The watchmaker of the universe never ceases to create wonderment and awe...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
The Speed of Sudden Confidence
As recent as yesterday, people I spoke with lamented that while we're past the "bottoming-out" point in our economy, it looks like a long road back...
Suddenly, today, the headlines read "20% jump in home starts in 2011," "U.S. expects higher than predicted GDP growth in each quarter of 2011" and "Intel reported its best quarterly and yearly results ever."
It's almost too late to make the strategic business investments firms must make to position themselves to take advantage the recovery. Investments in marketing, hiring/upgrading talent and client relationships, etc...
Suddenly, today, the headlines read "20% jump in home starts in 2011," "U.S. expects higher than predicted GDP growth in each quarter of 2011" and "Intel reported its best quarterly and yearly results ever."
It's almost too late to make the strategic business investments firms must make to position themselves to take advantage the recovery. Investments in marketing, hiring/upgrading talent and client relationships, etc...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Off the Deep End. Again.
When is the last time you stretched out of your comfort zone and went off the deep end? Although a life-long exerciser, I never swam. Today I followed-through on a promise to myself to add swimming to my exercise regimen. A straight-hour of swimming...
I have alot of confidence as a weightlifter, runner, soccer player, etc..., but I floundered in the water until today.
As with other things in life there was uncertainty about how I would do and embarrassment was possible.
As everyone should strive to do in life, go for it. I did. I went off the deep end and aside from taking-in a gallon of water or so until I learned how to breathe properly while swimming free-style, swimming, as exercise was enjoyable.
I'm hooked.
I have alot of confidence as a weightlifter, runner, soccer player, etc..., but I floundered in the water until today.
As with other things in life there was uncertainty about how I would do and embarrassment was possible.
As everyone should strive to do in life, go for it. I did. I went off the deep end and aside from taking-in a gallon of water or so until I learned how to breathe properly while swimming free-style, swimming, as exercise was enjoyable.
I'm hooked.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
New Year's Experiment
I was at the local YMCA today just a few blocks from our house and it was packed to the rafters with motivated weightlifters, treadmill patrons, cyclers and zumba dancers like it is every January. Just a month ago you could have rolled a medicine ball down the middle of the building and not have hit a jazzerciser (is that a word?).
What if we picked one thing and stuck with it for a year? If we are honest with ourselves, how many times have we done just that? What would we learn about ourselves?
What if we picked one thing and stuck with it for a year? If we are honest with ourselves, how many times have we done just that? What would we learn about ourselves?
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