Category Archives: Exercises

Listen to the results of my online leadership course: the full interview, part 3/9

on January 16, 2015 in Audio, Education, Exercises, Leadership

[Another post superseded this one by posting the full interview and the highlights. I’ll copy that post here: Over the past six months I created an online leadership course, The Fundamentals of Leadership. I interviewed a student who took it. Listen to the interview highlights and full course. If you want to learn to lead yourself or others better, or to improve your life, listen to the interview and see[…] Keep reading →

Listen to the results of my online leadership course: the full interview, part 2/9

on January 15, 2015 in Audio, Education, Exercises, Leadership

[Another post superseded this one by posting the full interview and the highlights. I’ll copy that post here: Over the past six months I created an online leadership course, The Fundamentals of Leadership. I interviewed a student who took it. Listen to the interview highlights and full course. If you want to learn to lead yourself or others better, or to improve your life, listen to the interview and see[…] Keep reading →

Listen to the results of my online leadership course: the full interview, part 1/9

on January 14, 2015 in Audio, Education, Exercises, Leadership

[Another post superseded this one by posting the full interview and the highlights. I’ll copy that post here: Over the past six months I created an online leadership course, The Fundamentals of Leadership. I interviewed a student who took it. Listen to the interview highlights and full course. If you want to learn to lead yourself or others better, or to improve your life, listen to the interview and see[…] Keep reading →

Highlights from interviewing the first student of my new online leadership course

on January 13, 2015 in Audio, Awareness, Education, Exercises, Leadership

[Another post superseded this one by posting the full interview and the highlights. I’ll copy that post here: Over the past six months I created an online leadership course, The Fundamentals of Leadership. I interviewed a student who took it. Listen to the interview highlights and full course. If you want to learn to lead yourself or others better, or to improve your life, listen to the interview and see[…] Keep reading →

New to the public: My Sales course!

on January 12, 2015 in Education, Entrepreneurship, Exercises

If you think of used car salespeople when you think sales, you’re missing out on some of the most important skills and perspectives for life. Not just business, but any interactions with people. Sales also means proposing ideas, job interviews (selling your labor),  hiring great people (selling your organization), fund-raising (selling equity), and more. Approaching sales from a leadership perspective teaches you to influence and persuade to create long-term, productive,[…] Keep reading →

A seminar attendee inspires me back with his TEDx talk

on January 6, 2015 in Exercises

The holiday note I got from one of my seminar attendees, Doug McCullough, described his trips skiing, camping, kayaking, canoeing, driving his high-end convertible, and other outdoor activities. There was a picture of him swimming with dolphins. He also linked to a TEDx talk he gave, which reminded me about one of my major inspirations, Mark Zupan, star of the Oscar-nominated Murderball and author of the book Gimp, and whom I[…] Keep reading →

Some science on where fat goes when you lose it

on January 3, 2015 in Exercises, Fitness, Models, Nature

I love learning about nature! I looked up about what happens to the mass you lose when you lose weight. A paper last month in the peer-reviewed BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal), “When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?” confirmed what I had read casually: you exhale it, or rather you exhale 84% of it. The rest is water, which we excrete “in the urine, faeces, sweat, breath,[…] Keep reading →

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