Health

To the health and safety pros out there, I salute you

March 10, 2011

I often use the top step of a ladder. I’ve never worried about falling when using a wheeled chair as a step stool. I’ve painted the ceiling of an enclosed space with little more than a surgeon’s mask and helped re-roof a house without bothering to ensure I wouldn’t fall two stories to the ground. [...]

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Lemonade at Gangplank

April 25, 2010

The country is fighting a war it can’t win. The economy still hasn’t recovered. Arizona has passed three controversial bills recently, the LEAST crazy of which allows non-trained citizens to carry concealed weapons. But life is good. Life has hope. The Lemonade Movie is proof that there are good things happening to people. Proof that [...]

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Food, whole only: cleansing my palate

April 5, 2010

We all eat food that’s bad for us. From fast to processed food and high-caloric, low-fat stuff wrapped in shiny plastic, it’s becoming easier and cheaper to eat NON-healthy items. And the more of this crap we eat, the less we notice it. Our energy levels decrease, but we don’t care. One energy drink or [...]

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Spread your gospel

February 23, 2010

We know you want to be heard. It’s tough to stand out. You have to be really loud, really good or really controversial. Some people, the rarest of us, are all three. We are not. We have to work to spread our message. We have to target, we have to impress and we have to [...]

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The Little Things

February 17, 2010

It’s always the little things. Small tasks left undone, chinks in our armor or additives we in what we eat. They add up. Looked at a food label lately? The prevalence of high-fructose corn syrup and its derivatives slowly add up. There’s nothing nutritional about it, but it makes processed food taste better and last [...]

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Show your mistakes

February 16, 2010

We all want to look good. We want to bring our best work, display our best talents and show our best side. And that’s great. It’s good that we want those around us to see us at our best. People can learn and be inspired. But we’re selling everyone short. People can learn from our [...]

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Accept, Change, Ignore

February 15, 2010

No matter what happens, we are always faced with the same three choices. We can accept, we can change or we can ignore. Accept is an easy one and often chosen, but it seldom does much good. If someone calls you an asshole, you can either take it or fight it. If you ARE an [...]

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Being your best

February 12, 2010

We only run our fastest when we quit worrying about how to stop. We do our best when we quit worrying about how not to. We’ll never do our best if we keep ourselves under control, if we never compete against those greater than us, or we’re never in over our head. Doing our best [...]

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The “InsertNameHere” Problem

February 10, 2010

Every company, group or team has one. It’s usually a person, but sometimes a process, but the issue is the same. They cause problems. Not normal problems, like breaking machinery or poor work, but problems like challenging authority, refusal to follow arcane rules and a general unwillingness to participate in inefficient or pointless work. But [...]

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The Problem with Dependence

February 6, 2010

As someone who has lost more nights to alcohol than he cares to remember, Craig Ferguson‘s monologue from last November really nails it. Whether you’re dependent on drugs, food or anything not in moderate amounts to get through your day, get help. Ask for it. Don’t spend the rest of your life trying to remember [...]

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