Meetings all day? Hopefully one of those is for you and some dumbbells.
Not too busy? What time are you scheduled for the gym?
All clear? Except for your workout, right?
Shouldn’t scheduling exercise be the easy part?
Author Archives: ljgale
Did you hear the news?
Yeah, it’s crazy.
So and so famous person suddenly died? It’s crazy.
Your company was acquired by a bigger one. It’s crazy.
Last night’s madness on Breaking Bad? It’s crazy.
The goings on are crazy, yes. But why? Because of what happened to them or it or the thing? Or is it crazy because of the difficult question it forces us to confront?
New outlook on life? New career path? New standard for entertainment we invest our time in?
Time to reevaluate things. It’d be crazy not to.
ALT Tab all day
Leaving your traveling-consulting job. Or your position as a small business CFO. Or your role as GM of a restaurant.
Leaving a good job is not easy. Nor is it right if you’re doing what you love.
In fact, if your work is what you love, stick with it. You’ll probably live longer. Like Frank Lloyd Wright, 91. George Burns, 100. Grandma Moses, 101.
Selective sample? Science actually suggests that “time can actually expand to contain the work with which you choose to fill it”.
Ready to start doing what you love? Your boss will never know.
Mine didn’t.
Just trying to be positive
Are you positive? Like 100% confident in your opinions? Positive you’re right?
I’m pretty sure you should look at it differently, then. People really seem to like you when you aren’t so positive.
It’s true!
I’m just trying to be positive.
How long til the first checkpoint?
Life is a marathon. Except, this race doesn’t have a clear finish line. Nor are there any predefined check points. The former is defined by diet, exercise, work and relationships. The latter by setting goals.
Your finish line. Your checkpoints.
It’s all you.
First checkpoint is first. What’s it gonna be?
Keepin it 100
Ask any coach, executive, or leader of any kind. It’s crucial to recognize and celebrate milestones.
Just wrapped up Spring Training? Recognize and celebrate.
Just finished your first full year in business? Recognize and celebrate.
Just published your 100th blog post?
Recognize!
Now let’s celebrate 100 blog posts by remembering some of the best:
- Needing Dexter
- Do you?
- 12 eye-openers on Facebook likes and money
- Why does my news feed show that?
- Lenny James Gale
- Your morning news
- 10 ways to enjoy the low-hanging fruit
- Dreaming, Humming, Stacking
- General Kills
- CTRL ALT DEL your brain
- Portion Control: An American Delicacy
Thanks to you for reading. I write ’em for you.
Well, do you?
Towards any good run, it’s easy to forget why you started. To focus on satisfying your needs instead of the needs of your team. Of your congregation. Of your fans.
Maybe the thought is, “I deserve it”? I deserve to be a part of this team still. I deserve to speak about my fears. I deserve to write a TV finale that’s fun for me.
It’s the real legends and leaders and visionaries, though, that refuse the easy choice. That never forget where they came from. Or who got them where they are. Or why they started in the first place.
Towards the end, do you have the courage to do what’s not easy?
Lenny James Gale
Dear Lenny Gale,
Thank you for taking the entire week to criticize celebrities for endorsing products that are marketed as stuff that makes us feel good now. America is a free country. We have the freedoms to buy whatever makes us feel good now. Not in the long run. Now.
So go ahead, you righteous fuck. Juxtapose yourself with Larry the Cable Guy, Beyoncé, Michael Phelps and Erin Andrews. I know what’s coming.
You want to tell us that how great Vitamix is and how it can actually make us feel good. Ugh!
You know what, Lenny Gale? You can take your Vitamix 7500 and shove it up your ass. I don’t care that it helps me reduce heart burn, improve digestive health, stay refreshed and prepare easy, healthy and quick meals.
In America, we’re about feeling good now. Not after a couple weeks of making juices. Or smoothies. Or soup. We want to feel good now. Now!
Just leave America alone.
Disdainfully yours,
America
Erin Jill Andrews
Dear Erin Andrews,
Thank you for being a role model for thousands of young women. You’re hard-working, smart and successful. Not to mention, you were extraordinarily resilient in overcoming a horrifying, very public incident.
You’re a true inspiration.
Good things,
Lenny Gale
P.S. Why do you recommend TruBiotics? When I had an excision of a thrombosed external hemorrhoid, my surgeon, Dr. Isaac Felemovicius, M.D. FACS FASCRS, Adjunct Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Minnesota, gave me some advice. He said I might want to consider a fiber supplement. A powder one, like Metamucil. Not pills. According to Dr. Issac, as he’s known, pills marketed for digestive health do more harm than good and are just another thing drug companies want you to take one-a-day forever. Yes, forever.
Aren’t TruBiotics taken in pill form, Erin?
Michael Fred Phelps II
Dear Michael Phelps,
Thank you for recommending Subway sandwiches. I’ve always wanted to be a swimmer. Just like you. Before eating Subway sandwiches, I’d try to swim but would just sink like a rock. Now, after eating Subway sandwiches like you, I float with ease.
Thanks again,
The Men of Amurica
P.S. Any recommendation for ridding all this belly fat I recently took on?