Archive for February, 2008
How to have energy left at the end of the day
Last week I shared my thoughts about Robert K. Cooper’s book “High Energy Living”, and promised to give examples of some of his tools and techniques. One of them starts at the beginning…of our day that is.
How do you start your day?
The vast majority of us would describe it with one adjective: rushed. That’s how I [...]
Most of us don’t believe that we can feel fully alive
The shockingly sad and true post title is a quote from a book called “High Energy Living” by Robert K. Cooper. Most of us accept this either because we’ve forgotten what it feels like to really feel good, and/or because we don’t know how we can change.
Sure we can reduce stress for a while, go on vacation [...]
How to get more freedom on the job
Most of us feel like we can’t buck the trend in our work cultures. For example, there is no way we could take time for exercise at lunch if everyone else is eating at their desks. We would be labelled as “slackers” and be blackballed when it comes to promotions. So we let our health [...]
Is it possible to act purposefully in the corporate world?
My last two posts were recollections of times when I and another exec. acted a little blindly to further the company’s interests, pushing ourselves or others beyond what should have been expected. At the time, we both thought we were being good corporate warriors worthy of praise, to which we would have replied:”Just doing my job.”
Fact is, most of us didn’t [...]

