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Well, I did it! After a wonderful pre-Thanksgiving dinner with parents in Long Beach, I woke up on Thursday morning and we drove over to Belmont Shores.
(One of these pictures shows me getting ready at the start of the race!)
Jodi drove (as we've found I generally get into "race mode" about 2 hours before each event!), and as I'd registered the day before we were able to walk around and peruse the event prior to me running.
Mastering Work and Life Balance & Having More Fun
Do you need some advice to balance your work and your life? Well, here are several tips for balancing life, work, kids, inspirational quotes, and more.
Top Five Signs Your Work/Life Balance Needs Adjustment
Mastering Work and Life Balance & Having More Fun Here
Wanted: Intimate Marketing Relationship.
Why is it, then, that so few organizations dedicate the time and resources to actually building those all-important relationships? A corporation will spend millions on broadcasting to a huge pool of prospects. It'll busy itself with building some amazing customer database or tracking software.
I had the great fortune to meet with Lisa Snider on Friday (11/17/2006) for an interview for her site Radio Ojai.
We had originally planned to talk about this site (Fit and Effective), and I'd say the interview did follow a common theme: As busy as we all are, how do we manage things to have time for the "little things."
I had no idea, when I started to write here about the little things we can do to stay healthy, focused and fit, that it would be such a popular piece of the site. But, looking over the statistics, it's the most oft-visited section of fitandeffective.com.
As a result of that interview as well as a lot of other ideas I've collected, I'm going to be adding to that area much more often!
Link: The White Space.
I think our life is just like a Chinese painting. In order to have balance and inner peace, you need sufficient "white space". Look at your own life now, how much "white space" do you have? Is your "life painting" overly cluttered and there's no breathing room left?
Earlier this month, I attended a great weekend course, all on fitness, health, nutrition and balance. I was very impressed by the course and the instructor, JK Taylor.
Many things stand out to me about the two days of information, I'm sure I'll write about them here over time. The one I'd like to look at here: Eating less...more often.
Well, for readers of my blog, you know that I've committed to racing in New York next summer. Actually, this will be my second race in The Big Apple. I have already competed in the Fitness Games 4-miler, so I'm really looking forward to racing a full triathlon there in '07.
I'd love to build a team of "accountability buddies," so who'd like to join this mini-club? You've got just about 9 months to train! If you've been thinking of getting ready for a triathlon, here is a great one to commit to! (Oh, if you do sign up, let me know!)
Link: Working Smarter.
If the person worked smarter, he could achieve his goal in a less time-consuming manner and in a more efficient way.
Coming from a freshman in high school...boy, I wish I would have been thinkin' this way 20 years ago!
Planning a trip? Here is a bit of advice from one of the books I've read on the life of another road warrior:
Journal Gazette | 09/26/2006 | Out of the office.
“There’s usually very little room for error if you take a morning flight. You don’t want to go to an 11 a.m. meeting with a 10 a.m. arrival time,” says Rob Jolles, author of “The Way of the Road Warrior.”
“If you screw up, it’s perceived as a lack of etiquette even though you’ll have a wonderful story about the piece that broke on the plane or the weather, it doesn’t matter. There’s a group waiting for you.”
Jolles also cautions against scheduling your departure flight too close to the end of your business meeting.
“Hang around, answer all the questions, do not appear to be in a hurry to run out of the room,” Jolles said.
For a long time now, I've been interested in watching, tracking and re-thinking "sleep." How much do I need? When is it best? What happens during that time?
These and other questions are ones I find answers to every now and then. For a great book on the topic, check out this one. And, if you know of any research on the topic, and are willing to share, please pass it along...
There is an incredible article in a recent issue of Harvard Business Review, focusing on the topic of sleep deprivation on performance. Here is an abstract:
"Companies today glorify the executive who logs 100-hour workweeks, the road warrior who lives out of a suitcase in multiple time zones, and the negotiator who takes a red-eye to make an 8 a.m. meeting. But to Dr. Charles A. Czeisler, the Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, this kind of corporate behavior is the antithesis of high performance.
