Want to watch time management in action? Watch Olympic sports especially snowboarding cross and speedskating – timing can mean the difference between a gold and a silver medal – winning or losing –

What do the Olympics teach us about goal setting and goal achievement? Have we been living too much in an idealized version of goal setting?

How many of us would work hard for 4 years, spend a ton of money, and discipline ourselves to get going under the worst weather conditions . . . all for a 23-second opportunity to win Gold?
It wasn’t a sure thing – many of his competitors were also talented, also had worked hard, also had envisioned [...]

This was the scene this morning waiting for the Olympics 2010 Vancouver flame to arrive at one of its many destinations today, the last day of the Olympic Flame run.  

It was right outside my apartment block.  It was early.  We heard the helicopter at around 5:30 am as the flame  started it’s last journey. 
The flame [...]

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in Bloom!  Yes, that’s right – Vancouver has cherry blossoms on the trees, daffodils blooming and tulips in advanced stages of sprouting.  Would you ever connect the Winter Olympics with a City where it seldom snows and often finds itself in Spring before much of the rest of the country?  Most [...]