Monthly Archives: December 2012

The irony of my last two posts

on December 24, 2012 in Blog

I didn’t notice it until a few people wrote and called me about the awesome Vince Lombardi quote and I looked at the post on my front page followed by the previous day’s post on karaoke. So I wanted people to know that the irony, if that’s the right word, is not lost on me that I had back to back posts on one of the greatest coaches of all[…] Keep reading →

Vince Lombardi: What It Takes to be Number One

on December 23, 2012 in Blog, Fitness, Leadership

After a couple posts on sports, I’m putting up one of the great sports coaching quotes, by Vince Lombardi. According to Wikipedia Vincent Thomas “Vince” Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was an American football coach. He is best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s, where he led the team to three straight league championships and five in seven years, including winning[…] Keep reading →

Public speaking and karaoke success

on December 22, 2012 in Blog

I don’t know about you, but I grew up scared to speak in public. I was mortified to sing in public. Karaoke was one of the scariest things for me to do. I enjoyed it when I got drunk enough, but that meant I’d have to deal with horrible hangovers. As a result, I didn’t sing much karaoke — maybe a few times in my whole life. Of course, I[…] Keep reading →

Burpees — the one year review

on December 21, 2012 in Blog, Fitness

[This post is part of a series on my daily exercise and starting and keeping challenging habits. If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] Today, December 21, 2012, marks the 365th day of my exercise regiment of daily burpees. They began with me talking to a friend about exercise, then[…] Keep reading →

Nature versus Corporate (slideshow)

on December 20, 2012 in Blog, Nature

Here are the same pictures as from the previous post in a slide show, randomly ordered. Funny, I was thinking about the questions I asked. They feel like leading questions, but reading them, they seem open-ended. I guess you can tell my values. I could have asked questions about market share, returns on investment, competitive strategy, and so forth to get different pictures to rank higher. Things have different values[…] Keep reading →

Nature versus Corporate

on December 20, 2012 in Nature

My post on Variety, choice, the manufactured illusion of it, and creating more yourself prompted more people emailing me about the images than most others. The way all the corporate stuff trying to catch your eye glosses over. I decided to contrast the corporate image with images from nature. I just did three images searches, on “fruit,” “vegetable,” and “forest,” and posted a couple of the images from the first[…] Keep reading →

Petty pathetic censorship

on December 19, 2012 in Blog, Leadership

For Want of a Nail For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the message was lost. For want of a message the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail. A nail[…] Keep reading →

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