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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Just 15 minutes a day = 3 more years alive: exercise and passion
A study of over 400,000 people found something amazing: If you moderately exercise just 15 minutes a day you gain 3 more years of life expectancy. Having a daily ritual like this leverages the power of persistence. Each day I’ll look at the how combining one of the other paths to being at your best [...]
Posted in Passion, Purpose, Put It Together Tagged 15 minutes a day, exercise, life expectancy, Office Yoga, Passion, Persistence, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, yoga team building Comments closed
Just 15 minutes a day = 3 more years alive: exercise and purpose
A study of over 400,000 people found something amazing: If you moderately exercise just 15 minutes a day you gain 3 more years of life expectancy. Having a daily ritual like this leverages the power of persistence. Each day I’ll look at the how combining one of the other paths to being at your best [...]
Posted in Persistence, Purpose, Put It Together Tagged 15 minutes a day, exercise, life expectancy, Office Yoga, Persistence, Purpose, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, yoga team building Comments closed
Just 15 minutes a day = 3 more years alive: exercise and play
A study of over 400,000 people found something amazing: If you moderately exercise just 15 minutes a day you gain 3 more years of life expectancy. Having a daily ritual like this leverages the power of persistence. Each day I’ll look at the how combining one of the other paths to being at your best [...]
Posted in Play, Purpose, Put It Together Tagged 15 minutes a day, exercise, life expectancy, Office Yoga, Persistence, Play, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, yoga team building Comments closed
Just 15 minutes a day = 3 more years alive: exercise and persistence
A study of over 400,000 people by researchers from Taiwan published in the Lancet found something amazing: If you moderately exercise just 15 minutes a day you reduce your risk of mortality by 14% and you have 3 more years of life expectancy. Three more years! That’s the power of persistence – by investing just [...]
Posted in Persistence Tagged 15 minutes a day, exercise, life expectancy, Office Yoga, Persistence, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, The Lancet Comments closed
Why Trader Joe’s is different – a reader’s reply
Nina Coil is a colleague whom I admire. She’s also a reader of this blog. She wrote a reply to my Trader Joe’s post that I felt should be shared – excellent help for anyone trying to upgrade the customer experience, employee morale and bring the element of play into the work. Here’s Nina… Your [...]
Posted in Play, Purpose Tagged emotions contagious, Nina Coil, Play, Purpose, Trader Joe's Comments closed
An empathy exercise – what it’s like to work the cash register at Trader Joe’s
Purpose connects us with the larger world. Empathy is one path to using the power of purpose. I read a story recently told by a Trader Joe’s employee about what it’s like to work there. As Trader Joe’s is the only supermarket I find myself in (albeit only once every few months) I was interested. [...]
Posted in Purpose Tagged cashier, effective influencing, Emotional Intelligence Works, empathy, Influence, influence:the power of persuasion, influencing, Influencing skills, Purpose, Trader Joe's Comments closed
“Live Your life big” – 61 year old Diana Nyad on trying to swim from Cuba to the U.S.
Diana Nyad was a long-distance swimmer who broke world records in her 20s. 40 years later she came back, trying to fulfill one of her dreams – to swim from Cuba to the U.S. – 103 miles through shark-infested waters. Why? Why now, in her sixties – her body can’t be anywhere in the shape [...]
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Six Lessons of Persistence and Ritual from William Stafford
Do it daily Let delight guide you Lower your standards Keep it short No preparing is wasted Let your ritual inspire others I’ve recently written about William Stafford’s ritual of writing a poem every early morning. And I’ve covered most of the above lessons – except for two parts. First ‘keep it short’ – Your [...]
Posted in Persistence, Purpose Tagged 40 Days to Change For Good, Morning Poems, ritual, Robert Bly, William Stafford Comments closed
The 5-Minute Workout