Freedomizing

 I turn 40 this year, and I always said I wanted to do an Ironman in my 40s. Well, why not when I'm 40?! This has been inspired by my cousin sending a random text "I am doing an iron man ... Do you have any tips, recommend any training strategy, diet, anything that helped you? ... " Things happen for a reason, I think, divine sometimes. Therefore, I thought about it and deferred to a conversation we should have later. As this clearly was not on the front of my mind, but certainly should be!  I've been thinking about this for the last couple of weeks, and I've come to a conclusion, based on a study of one, me, that an iron man slides perfectly in line with the age-old 80/20 rule. 80% mental and 20% physical. Keep in mind I am a passive triathlete; in other words, I compete with no one but myself, and I consider it an absolute win if I finish and a super win if I enjoy it! Therefore my "recommendations" are for those individuals looking to "complete,...

 Management/coaching, a fantastic appreciation of failure. In the Epilogue of the book, Daniel Coyle references the Toyota management style, the example he gives in so many words a manager who came into a meeting bragging about all of the great things he'd accomplished. The response of the rest of the group was we hired you because you are a good manager; now, what's going wrong so we can fix it. In corporate America, schools in just about every aspect of life could learn from this. I specifically recall in my annual reviews that I didn't do a good enough job "tooting my horn." I struggled with these annual reviews, and I mean, I loathed them! Didn't matter what company or what job; even when I had a manager that I really respected, the annual reviews were a "check the box" made everyone feel uncomfortable, lie a little, shift a little, and everyone saw through it all, at least I did, and I assumed they did too! Granted, society has turned these annu...

 Reading the one thing currently, thus far, I really like the book, it is helping me get back to the basics, and it's reminding me of things I need to do. The 80/20 rule, which is essentially a physics fact on human behavior, is fascinating. Kaplan found out that it's 87/13 on behavioral effects of a portfolio; I bet if they got more data from a larger pool, they'd find it go closer to the vastly studied 80/20, that's splitting hairs, though.  Back to the point, the one thing, and I really pondered that statement, instead of trying to accomplish xy and or z by the end of the day/year/decade the point I believe of the entire book is what's the ONE thing you will accomplish. Before starting the book, I wrote yesterday about purpose and intention, and the book is just another way of stating (much more elegantly than I am capable of) the same thing. Funny how worlds collide.  Focus and intention have continued to follow me through the holidays, however, my focus was on ...