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Tag Archives: Play
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 Also tagged 15 minutes a day, exercise, life expectancy, Office Yoga, Persistence, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, yoga team building 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 Also tagged emotions contagious, Nina Coil, Purpose, Trader Joe's Comments closed
Skaters in Washington National Airport – A Stolen Moment
On my way to security – heading home! – in Washington National Airport, this artwork paused me, brought a smile to my face, a feeling of longing to be on the ice with them and a thankfulness for created beauty in the world. I don’t even know if it was an ad (United maybe?) but [...]
Posted in Happiness, Passion, Persistence, Play, Positive Psychology, Purpose, Put It Together Also tagged corporate team building, corporate team building activities, Happiness, Quixote Consulting, Rob Fletcher, skaters, Stolen Moment, Stolen Moments, Team Building, team building activities, Washington National Airport Comments closed
Stolen Moment: Yellow Irises and Cypress Trees on Theodore Roosevelt Island
Here’s the first in a series of invitations to play and savor the world has presented to me. I call these invitations that I accept ‘stolen moments’. You can read more about stolen moments below. Meanwhile, here’s one from Theodore Roosevelt Island along the Potomac River. It was an early flight. I was up at [...]
Posted in Happiness, Passion, Persistence, Play, Positive Psychology, Purpose, Put It Together Also tagged bald cypress trees, corporate team building, corporate team building activities, Happiness, Passion, Persistence, Positive Psychology, Purpose, Putting It All Together, Quixote Consulting, Rob Fletcher, Stolen Moment, Stolen Moments, Team Building, team building activities, Theodore Roosevelt Island, yellow iris Comments closed
The 300th post! Taking the time to celebrate and have fun
Happy Anniversary At Your Best! This is the 300th blog post. And in the spirit of the last few posts on pausing to celebrate and have fun, I’m doing just that. I wrote this post early and when I get it and read it, just like you are now, I’m committing to pause what I [...]
Happy Dyngus Day! …Okay, now what’s Dyngus Day?
Today is Dyngus Day! This began as a Polish-American holiday and its roots can be traced back over 1000 years ago. Dyngus Day has pre-Christianity rites such as water fertility and pussy willow switching, but it has mainly been celebrated in the last 100 years or so as an end to the restrictions of Lent. [...]
If the President has time for it, so do you
“Mr. and Mrs. Obama both try to exercise for at least an hour every day.” – New York Times article on Cornell McClellan, the White House personal trainer An hour a day? How does the leader of the free world find an hour to himself every day? I’m betting it’s because not only does he [...]
Posted in Passion, Persistence, Play, Purpose, Put It Together Also tagged Carter, Cornell McClellan, exercise, New York Times, Obama, Passion, Paul Winter, presidents age, Thoreau Comments closed
What does hockey goalie Jacques Plante have to say on pressure not to fail?
“Goaltending is a normal job, sure. How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and 15,000 people stood up and yelled at you.” - Hall of Fame goalie Jacques Plante (most famous for being the first to regularly wear [...]
Posted in Persistence, Play, Training Also tagged failure, goalie mask, goaltending, hockey goaltending, Jacques Plante, pressure, Quixote Consulting, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success Comments closed
Traveling rings and the Circus of Life