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The morning habit of highly effective people - wake up for yourself

April 17th, 2008 · Comments

Early Sunrise in Valley Forge - 2003
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In Stephen R. Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, shared traits and behaviors of effective people are described (at the strategic level). I’ve found one habit, at the functional level, which seems to span every effective person I’ve met. I do it too.
It’s waking up and doing [...]

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Tags: Managing · Nike+ · Running

Back in my routine - daily running, RSS+flow, and dev

April 11th, 2008 · Comments

Latest run results… Almost to my goal of < 7:00 pace…
Today is special… It marks the first day of getting back in to my preferred routine. Here it is:

Get up early and hit a good run.
Read RSS (and now some flow) over breakfast.
Drive to the office (while continuing to read RSS).
Have a productive day of [...]

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Tags: Nike+ · Running · iofy

Back to running - Nike+ to track progress

April 6th, 2008 · Comments

After a long time off I’m finally back to running. My wife gave me a Nike+ at Christmas and it’s been gathering dust for the most part.
Why? We’ve been remodeling and we’re finally wrapping things up (photo stream on Flickr). I can feel the all-our-spare-time-sucked-out-of-us-and-put-in-to-construction-duties coming back like the warmth of Spring. Now there will [...]

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Tags: Nike+ · Real Estate · Remodeling · Running