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Lean and mean How I made weight for my race The big story this week is my weight and nutrition. I was whining about being ‘jiggly-fat’ last episode so I did what I do when something is important, I focused on it, came up with a plan and executed. And over the last few weeks …
Address to my 22 year old self This topic is difficult in many ways. First it seems to ask for something definitive, some over-arching summary or distillation of a lifetime’s learnings. This sets the mark too high. That’s an impossible set of advice to distill. Even if we could distill that advice it would not …
Stress on! I’m reading an interesting book on how extreme athletes use their ability to ‘get in the zone’ to be able to do crazy feats. It is becoming clearer in the research that what actually happens is that part of your ‘thinking’ brain shuts down, or is co-opted by the ‘implicit’ brain during times …
Pile o’ Sticks On consistency in action. What if you did one small thing consistently? What would you have a pile of at the end of the season? Living in New England we like to have a wood fire in our houses in the winter. This year I haven’t been able to have a fire …
The 5 Practices of Effective Executives I’m reading (or re-reading) a small book by Peter Drucker called The Effective Executive. It was published in 1966. The edition I have is from 1987. It must have been deemed worthy of some further ink and paper when it was 11 years old, but how does it hold …
