Managing multiple priorities when we’d rather be having fun

Managing multiple priorities when we’d rather be having fun. This is a daily battle for most. Two big questions that fluctuate throughout life:

  1. What are our priorities?
  2. Why are they our priorities?

Teaching our children through example… on many intricate levels…

Washington Monument

Heading back to the Fairmont…

Washington Monument at night

One of the best days ever… on so many levels.

a father's teaching

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You have to really want to improve to improve

deep desire
Michael Phelps and this magazine both understand the impact of deep desire

You have to really want to improve to improve. Traveling all day can drain a person. Yesterday, the TSA at Reagan National airport offered the slowest ID check experience in recent memory…

But watching the 2012 USA Olympic trials last night, one of the most positive experiences on the road came flooding back…

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If not you, who?

attitude
impossible? much depends on our answer.

If not you, who? Work life balance is on everyone’s “to do” list. Who’s your role model? Nearly four decades in the workforce and still without one.

So I decided to figure it out – experiment and practice – what made sense and what didn’t. Can’t believe it took so long to own up to my obligation to figure it out for myself. Same with you?

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The road to organizational excellence has no finish line

The road to organizational excellence has no finish line. The Disney Pixar blockbuster movie Cars (the original), is a coming-of-age story. The transformation of a selfish jerk (focused on excellence on the race track) to a selfless hero (on life’s glorious highway).

The main character, Lightning McQueen, reminds me a lot of someone else.

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