Category Archives: SIDCHAs

Look who’s doing a sidcha: Mark Zuckerberg, running a mile a day this year

on March 22, 2016 in Fitness, Habits, SIDCHAs

The founder and CEO of Facebook set a goal to run a mile every day of 2016. Sounds like a sidcha to me! Detractors claim he’s not running every day or the whole mile or that it’s too polluted to be safe. At least he stated the intent. I hope he keeps it up. Since he says he’s only doing it for the year, learning the concept of a sidcha[…] Keep reading →

Video: I recorded my burpee sidchas

on March 10, 2016 in Exercises, Fitness, Habits, SIDCHAs, Visualization

I’ve meant to post a video of my burpee sidchas. Someone writing a book on high intensity interval training asked me for a video, so I finally recorded my morning and evening burpee sidchas. Maybe my burpee sidcha will show up in a book. I don’t claim they’re glamorous but I haven’t missed a burpee in over four years. I do them every day. I started with ten burpees a[…] Keep reading →

Video: the first and last word on improving yourself

on February 28, 2016 in Fitness, Habits, SIDCHAs

[This post is part of series on the Self-Imposed Daily Challenging Healthy Activity (SIDCHA), burpees, and cold showers. If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click to view the SIDCHA series, the burpee series, and the cold shower series where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] Yesterday’s webinar, on sidchas, my most comprehensive treatment to date:

My bold next stages

on February 24, 2016 in Entrepreneurship, Leadership, SIDCHAs

Emails to great, long-time friends you don’t see that often give you the chance to reflect on longer stages than normal and to put together thoughts more complex than you think daily. I wrote the following to one such friend, capturing the change my change in focus and direction following my increased confidence in my courses as I’ve seen hundreds of people succeed in them. Some of it feels over[…] Keep reading →

Webinar: Self-Imposed Daily Challenging Activities, Saturday 1pm EST

on February 22, 2016 in Entrepreneurship, Exercises, Fitness, Habits, Leadership, SIDCHAs

After teaching, coaching, studying, and practicing leadership for twenty years, I announced my online leadership course, “Introducing the most effective leadership course available anywhere.” I’m hosting a series of free webinars on the most actionable, useful, effective, and exciting parts of the course. My webinars will always deliver exclusive, valuable lessons you can use that day and how to build for the long term. Attend my third webinar, free, this[…] Keep reading →

70,000 burpees!

on February 20, 2016 in Exercises, Fitness, Habits, SIDCHAs

[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.] I hit my 70,000th burpee today. Well, around today. I sometimes do more but never fewer, so I’m not sure the exact number. 70,000 is a[…] Keep reading →

Discipline doesn’t enable you to do things. Doing things consistently makes you disciplined.

on February 16, 2016 in Exercises, Fitness, Habits, Models, Perception, SIDCHAs, Tips

[This post is part of a series on the Self-Imposed Daily Challenging Healthy Activity (SIDCHA). 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.] People keep getting it backward when they congratulate me on the five years of daily posts, four years of daily burpees, and other disciplined achievements. They say, “You[…] Keep reading →

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