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Yukon River Quest

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….

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Maybe we need to get lazy

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…

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There are strange things done…

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…

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Lessons learned from a road trip with teenagers

I recently returned from a 6,000 km road trip with teenagers from our bucolic hometown of Kelowna to hold-on-to-your-wallet Los Angeles. Yes, the distance was great; surprisingly so were the lessons learnt. The plan for spring break was for myself and our two girls (13 and 16) to spend a week,…

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Once and for all, how to read

I took a speed-reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. –Woody Allen Hi, this is an excerpt from my new book: Give Me a Break: the art of making Time work for You. You can get the whole book here » How do you…

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