Situation Number One: Planet Fitness, today. I'm waiting for a guy to finish hogging the pull-up machine so I can do my one set and move on to the next exercise. I'm standing 10 feet from the machine, trying to make it obvious that I'm waiting to use the machine. But the guy is oblivious, … Continue reading Situational Awareness, My Lack of
We were driving to a family reunion yesterday, and along the way we passed the building (shown above) where I used to work 37 years ago, Prudential Insurance. It was my first "real" job, working as a dividend analyst in the group insurance division. I was part of a management development program that would have … Continue reading What If???
My first foray into blogging was with a site named The WSJ Blogger, which I started in August, 2012. The purpose of the site, as evidenced by its tagline, was to provide daily highlights from The Wall Street Journal along with other great articles and videos, all designed to inform, educate, and entertain. I kept that blog … Continue reading Fun Facts and Figures
Harvard Business Review recently published an article, "How Self-Care Became So Much Work", by Charlotte Lieberman. Lieberman notes that while Americans have focused on self-improvement for decades, today our focus is shifting away from the actual self — our bodies, minds, and spirits — and toward data about the self. With iEverythings around us at all times, we expect … Continue reading Guilty as Charged – From Fitness to Blogging
A couple of years ago I wrote about how prevalent a fear of falling is among the elderly, since the consequences of a fall can be devastating. Data shows that about 40 percent of those aged 65 and older fall at least once a year; one in 40 of them ends up in the hospital, … Continue reading Teaching the Elderly How to Fall
This is the 75th, and final, in a collection of newspaper ads written by Harry Gray, then CEO of United Technologies, that appeared in the Wall Street Journal from the late 1970s through the early 1980s. Here is the text from that ad. If you're putting off something you've been meaning to do, what are … Continue reading Do It Now
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