Thinking impossible thoughts ought to be like filling our lungs with oxygen

New York Post Lance Armstrong confession
Playing it safe is lying to ourselves

 

Impossible is the air we breathe. Thinking impossible thoughts ought to be like filling our lungs with oxygen. Easy.

But we cuddle with mediocrity. And our excuses find solace in impossible.

And then there are the wrong motives – say Lance Armstrong – who in pushing to become better, took the risk that eventually things might get worse, and lost.

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Six career observations from watching SuperBowl 47

Super Dome from hotel room
Super Dome from hotel room

 

Six career observations from watching SuperBowl 47:

1. Team work is under rated

2. Expect the unexpected

3. Virtually everything’s a risk

4. Goals drive extraordinary behavior

5. The loser is still the second best overall, and no one cares

6. Winner takes all

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Career fitness is tied to career dissatisfaction

Gravestone with profound life goal, At Peace
Are we at peace with our work life?

 

As long as we live in a parent child relationship with our boss, we will never feel like the captain of our own ship.

Our fitness will require pain. No pain, no gain.

And remember the physical equivalent. We can endure the pain and inconvenience of exercise, or the pain and inconvenience of poor health.

Can we endure the pain of always being the child at work?

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We are all acutely aware of the paradox of truth

Old, neglected garage in winter
Personal neglect is the slowest of teachers

 

The truth hurts and the truth can set us free.

We gravitate to the hurts part. We rarely tell the truth because… “I don’t want to hurt his feelings”.

Right?

In an honest man there is always something of a child.  – Plato

Kids don’t have that problem. They’re not worried about their reputation, or losing their job. Yet.

Shame they we ever have to.

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We are not judging him when this happens, instead we wonder

Allentown cemetery
Something about death that’s significant, right?

 

We are not judging him when this happens, instead we wonder.

The first victory in leadership is over self.

This is so frightening, we run from it.

The avoidance and fear lasts until we die, then it gets worse.

We can speculate that there is no air conditioning in hell.

Hell is a place filled with regrets.

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