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Slow row progress not perfection wins the Holiday Challenge
I flaked that the 2020 Concept2 Fall Challenge started ON Thanksgiving Day so I started on the 27th and have already missed December 1st. As a result, in order to reach my goal of 200,000 meters by midnight of 24 December—Christmas Eve.
A day late and 6,897 meters short for the Concept2 Holiday Challenge
It turns out that the first day of the 29-day Concept2 Holiday Challenge started yesterday. So, instead of 6,897 meter-per-day to make 200,000 meters by December 24, I'll need to row an average of 7,142 meters-per-day. Wish me luck and join me. It's an individual challenge so you can just do it.
Happy thanksgiving!
I wish the very best to you and your family and friends during this time of year as we all celebrate our own personal version of thanksgiving, each in our own way in our own family in our own country.
Two red clay-colored PAC Designs courier bags soon on their way
I was pretty sure that Pat from PAC Designs had retired from the messenger bag-making game but the only good thing about the global Coronavirus pandemic is that she got cabin fever and decided to make some bags. I have been conspiring with her for months and even ordered 2 yards of 1000D clay red CORDURA and mailed it to her so that she could make my handmade, bespoke, courier bags. Here are some photos you can enjoy of the bags in the process of being made. Can you pick out my bags?
Five Ways To Look After Your Employees
Employees are extremely important to your business. They are the ones that, if motivated, can help increase productivity and positively promote your business. If not motivated or happy, you may find you have a high staff turnover as people don’t want to work for you. From showing them you care by offering bonuses, there are many ways to show your workforce you value them.
Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish Recipe from Susan Stamberg and NPR
Maybe only a handful of you have ever shared Thanksgiving with me. It's no big whoops. For a few years there, I rocked the meal, making the perfect brined and butter-basted turkey.
What To Do When Your Business Is Suffering In COVID
Use our tips to help your business rise from the ashes this year and be successful in 2021 and beyond post-COVID.
Shakshouka recipe
Shakshouka is a dish of eggs poached in a sauce of tomatoes, olive oil, peppers, onion and garlic, and commonly spiced with cumin, paprika, cayenne pepper, and nutmeg. The dish has existed in Mediterranean cultures for centuries.
If You Want Real Customer Loyalty, You Have To Give A Little More
There’s no guarantee you will win the loyalty of the customers even with the tips below. Alongside it all, you have to deliver the quality of service that you promise. Without that, you won’t get anywhere with them.
Eight Easy Tips For Starting A Business
There are simple steps that you can take to ensure that you start your business and keep it as successful as you mean to go on. You need to know how to get this right, and we’ve put together eight steps to start your business now.
Final Numbers for my 2020 Concept2 Fall Team Challenge
While I started slowly, I committed to the entire challenge. I ended up being 13th in my boat and 2,573rd overall.
Forging a Strong Business? It’s About Employees’ Well-Being
Everything in terms of mental health and well-being is about finding the right balance. It is something that affects every organization and every business has a responsibility to support its staff. It may not be about incorporating massive changes. But by adding small components that don’t just help our employees feel more confident, but also encourages an environment where everybody feels happy to speak up if they are struggling means a stronger business in every aspect.
Managing the Problems Related to Freelance Life
Anything worth having rarely comes easy. This is most definitely the case when it comes to freelance life. A lot of people would like the freedom of working when they want and charging more money, but there’s a good reason why not everybody takes this approach: it can be challenging.
The reports of their death are greatly exaggerated
The assumption that gets predictions every time is that every generation believes that the current, upcoming, youth generation will be more enlightened or more liberal or more progressive than the last.
Here’s how You Could Protect Your Business Online- Starting Today
If you are a small business owner, then you can’t sit by and hope that cyber attacks don’t happen to you.
When I said I was slow rowing I wasn't joking
I did an hour yesterday while watching Spies in Disguise. And I did it slowly. When I talk about slow-rowing, I am not kidding.
This is starting rowing every day for the rest of my life looks like
I don't want to jinx myself—though that's exactly what I am doing—but I feel like I have gotten past the hump and I have prioritized rowing every day, really slowly, but really daily. Yes, I know it's extremely slow, but I reckon it'll speed up this week or next.
Progress not perfection for the Fall Team Challenge
I have been on the sliding seat at least once every day since the Concept2 Fall Team Challenge that started on September 15 and continues until midnight, October 15.
My bad joke, CSB’s brilliant comic, inspired by Phoneboy
My bad joke, CSB’s brilliant comic via Comic Strip Blogger! Inspired by Phoneboy.
Slow steady extended exercise is actually a type of breathing therapy
I have always been a terrible breather. I am a breath holder. I blame growing up in Hawaii and spending all my extra time freediving. That said, I have been thinking about oxygenation since the age of Coronavirus and since I started using a home ventilator, called a CPAP, and I think slow, steady, aerobic, exercise is another form of therapeutic breathing.
Motion is Lotion; Moving is Lubing
There are those who believe that a life of athletics ruin knees and elbows and there are others who believe that keeping active through functional fitness is the path towards a lifetime of easy mobility: motion is lotion. I'll gladly add, cheekily, moving is lubing.
I am working towards sixty-minutes of slow rowing every day for the rest of my life
I am finally doing it. After I burnt out my knees by going from zero to forty-five minutes of spin class in a day and then every day, I allowed myself to recover and now I am slowly building myself back up to committing sixty-minutes every evening to Maffetone rowing on my Concept2 indoor rower.
The Media that Cried Trump
A bored Media tending Sheep cried “Trump!” to get attention. They did it again and people came. A third time and the Media was ignored. Goodbye flock. A liar will not be believed, even when telling the truth.
Why do most gun owners own more than one gun?
Why do most American gun owners own so many guns? Why not just one pistol, maybe for home defense; or, just one bolt-action rifle for hunting? Or a shotgun for sport shooting? Isn't one gun enough? Why so many guns?
Closing Down: How to Efficiently Wind Up Your Business
Closing down your business can take some time, but it's better to go slowly than to rush it and make mistakes.
What To Expect: Content Marketing In A Post-COVID World
It's imperative that your content is heavily influenced by these new post-COVID strategies. Treat customers as individuals, use their real experiences and improve your social media linking.
An erging a day keeps the orthos away
The only thing that soothes my sore, stiff, and sometimes painful knees is at least ten minutes of easy rowing on my Model C Concept2 indoor rower—my erg.
Slow rowing is the best medicine for your knees
Neither bicycling nor running give your knees the sort of full range-of-motion they need to warm up and lubricate. Only rowing—either indoor erging or rowing on the water—offers a combination of the aerobic load of the a bike and the therapeutic strengthening offered by leg presses, leg extensions, and squats.
Mistakes New eCommerce Brands Are Making in 2020
History will look back on 2020 as a landmark year for business. It’s the year in which businesses of all shapes and sizes learned one of the oldest lessons in business in the harshest possible way… adapt or die!
Is It The Right Time To Go International?
Building your business on an international scale will always come with risks. You need to determine whether your company is in the right position to take these risks on.
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