I posted recently about my preparation for the Yukon River Quest (http://www.yukonriverquest.com), which starts June 29th in Whitehorse. This is an epic 740km race following the 1897 Klondike gold rush route ending some two and a half days later (did I mention you paddle through the night) in Dawson City….
I’m really enjoying Tony Hsieh’s book Delivering Happiness about his meteoric build of Zappos.com (www.zappos.com) to a $1B+ company in just 10 years and eventual sale to Amazon in 2010. Not only is this a wild ride of a young entrepreneur putting it all on the line to build the…
I was invited to share some thoughts about the theme of Give Me a Break for my friends at CoreHealth this past week (who are literally across the hall from my office). The folks at CoreHealth are an inspired team that help bring wellness programs to some of the biggest…
Maybe this has happened to you. It’s May, kids are already thinking of the holidays, you know you should get something on the calendar, but you’re so busy with work commitments that it doesn’t happen. July rolls around you make an obligatory trip to the local campground, spend half the…
There are strange things done in the midnight sun… In two weeks I will be pushing off from shore on the Yukon River for the longest endurance event of my life (OK, that sounded dramatic, but it is long!). Last September an article describing the Yukon River Quest (www.yukonriverquest.com) in…