In my experience, most ultramarathon athletes, even the elites, find success through a lack of failure on race day. They achieve their goals, win races, and get those coveted belt buckles not because they ran one section very well but because they prevented the negative. They prevented time spent at 0 miles per hour. They […]
Book Update – December 2, 2018
Writing has been slow, steady, and educational. A full summary of what I’ve been up to can be found at http://medium.com/@meaningfulflow
How to Baseline Your Calendar
November 7th turned out to be a great day for me to film that video. I was struggling to focus after a super-productive day the day prior. The Monday before that, I was fighting a migraine and wound up spending the afternoon after my client session sleeping it off. Life happens. Energy fluctuates. Plans go […]
Where to Find Data Scientists
Name a discipline where people are trained to ask questions about cause and effect, make sense of a ridiculous amount of information to help answer those questions, and leverage that information to determine likely scenarios. History. Yes – that class that you took because you had to, or you wouldn’t get your degree. The American […]
Gratitude
The US Thanksgiving holiday is my favorite holiday. It is the one holiday that is solely focused on gratitude, time with loved ones, and food. It is also one of the most stressful times of year for those who don’t have strong support networks, have amazingly dysfunctional families, or are in the throes of early […]
How to Recover from a Poor Start
Heather, my dog Cally, and I stood in the woods. We were 30 minutes into our first Orienteering event and still hadn’t found the first checkpoint. We made the faulty assumption that the trails would be well marked and that we could just follow the trail to the first checkpoint. Because of that assumption, we […]
The Power of the Done List
Many of us are familiar with to-do lists. Over the past couple of years, I’ve become a big fan of the “done” list. The done list contains everything I have finished that day. It may be an actual “to-do” list item. It may be a smaller part of a “to-do” list item. It may be […]
How to Mitigate the Dance of Blind Reflex
Barry Oshry started running the Power Lab back in the 1970s. Using anthropological observation techniques, he identified the system that we find ourselves operating within – and how it becomes dysfunctional. Tops (End) – Burdened by overwhelming complexity and responsibility. They feel unsupported, isolated and out of touch. Conflicts in this area become personalized and […]
How to Use Video Games to See Patterns
Over the past few weeks, I started playing Stardew Valley –a farming life simulator (or what I would fondly call, an errand runner – where I do the tasks I SHOULD be doing in real life). Life simulators, like Stardew Valley and the SIMS, are agreat way to see patterns that you might miss while […]
Lab Update – October and Lessons Learned
Cross-posted to Medium Change Planning The Publishizer campaign ended on October 31. Final stats – 646 views and 50 books pre-sold. I’m thrilled! This is the first time I’ve ever done anything like this and had to slog through a lot of personal fear and resistance to make it here. Even more exciting – I […]
