Monthly Archives: August 2010

What does Shaquille O’Neal have to say about passion?

“People see me as touchable and real. I make them feel like I know that guy. You’ve got to be yourself. A lot of athletes make the mistake of trying to build their brand. I built my brand just by playing and being myself. People who have the most successful image live by what I [...]
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Listen to the small moments for big clues

“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.” -Frederick [...]
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Two letters that touch on the heart of why I do what I do

After a recent Collaborative Charity Bike Build charity bicycle team building event and Team Quest collaborative team building with a client in the energy industry, I received two letters that really nailed two reasons why I do what I do. The first is from one of the participants: “Thanks, the time we spent on the two [...]
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Introducing the Collaborative Charity Bike Build!

Welcome to the world’s first and only Collaborative Charity Bike Build! From the creative mind of Quixote Consulting founder Rob Fletcher, the Collaborative Charity Bike Build combines the powerful experience of our most popular charity team building event the Charity Bike Build and Quixote Consulting’s collaborative team building programs designed to link fully with how business is most effectively [...]
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What do you need to say no to in order to say yes to what you really want?

There are 1440 minutes in a day. That doesn’t change, as much as we’d like to. Whatever we say yes to inevitably means we are saying no to something else that we could be doing in that finite time. This gets me curious about what am I consciously saying yes to, and also what I’m [...]
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Does using persistence make you smarter?

Last Saturday I ran the Bridge of Flowers 10k in Shelburne, MA. It was the first 10k I had run since I was in High School in the mid-1980s. That’s a long time ago! I haven’t run that far since on an impulse I ran the first half of the Boston Marathon in 2001 (long [...]
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Can your passion and play help natural persistence?

Last week I talked about old school (mechanical) persistence vs. natural persistence. You can think of it as persistence from the head versus persistence from the heart. Let’s look at what effect that has on your experience of the present. If you only employ old school persistence in your life, you’re in danger of what [...]
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Is persistence fun or not fun for you?

I’ve noticed two different styles of persistence in my life lately. The first I’ll call old school persistence. This kind of persistence is the grit-your-teeth and knuckle down, get things done style. In the words of Mary Poppins, “life’s a looming battle to be won and fought”. This is the kind of persistence you’d imagine [...]
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What’s YOUR game and are you playing it today? Call a time out and check.

Professional basketball is a game of runs and rhythm. When a team gets even a little out of sync with their core identity the other team exploits this quickly. When coaches call time outs when their team is in trouble, it’s usually to do one simple thing – remind them of who they are, what [...]
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Pat Metheny, the Orchestrion and Innovating Using Limits

As the instruments started to trickle in from the various inventors, the experience of writing for them and figuring out what might be possible with them provided a self-imposed challenge that proved to be difficult and time-consuming, but absolutely exhilarating. -Pat Metheny I recently wrote a post about innovating by limiting yourself. Here’s another great [...]
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