Running is a sport of discipline. For anyone looking to run seriously—anyone who plans on running any marathons or plans to incorporate running as their regular means of exercise—you can expect to form a lot of habits.These are eight bad habits every runner needs to kill if they want to be at their best.
In the working world, we’re more than likely to come across people who are difficult to deal with. It’s just bound to happen. Maybe personalities don’t mesh, maybe there’s an attitude problem, maybe you just don’t like them. It happens. You find them difficult. As a professional and someone who tries to be a gentleman in all situations, how do you handle someone who grinds your gears?
If there’s one thing people hate, it’s stress. No one likes that feeling of being crunched, especially when it comes to work. We want to feel like we’ve got it all under control, 100% of the time, or we’re failing. But the truth of the matter is that stress can be a valuable tool at every level of employment: whether we’re at the top, working our way up, or striking it out on our own.
What makes a leader truly great? Everyone has a different answer, but we know that there are some qualities that we can all agree on! Whatever you do—whatever field, whatever company, big, small, startup, solo—if you are in a position of leadership the only thing you absolutely cannot do without is passion.
While you don’t need to be rich to invest in real estate, we all need to mindful of our capital when looking to invest. There’s a lot of strategy involved! When you need more capital than what is available to you, raising that capital can be challenging—particularly for new, less experienced investors.
Have you ever met someone who just oozes charm and charisma? Too often we think of charisma as being wound up in a person’s looks, or voice, or even their position of power and experience. But in all honesty, anyone and everyone can learn how to be charismatic. All it takes is learning how to be a great communicator.
If I started making a list of what makes a good leader, I could go on for awhile. There are superficial characteristics like a strong, commanding presence, a good speaking voice, and being a snappy dresser. Or more important meat-and-potatoes things: having follow-through, integrity, courage, insight, initiative, etc. But there’s a quality to leadership that often gets overlooked.
Training for a marathon can take anywhere from 16 to 20 weeks—sometimes more—and that process brings with it a lot of changes: your body, your schedule, your diet. Your perspective just might get an overhaul, too. It’s hard—especially that first time. But for me, these are the most eye-opening, incredible, and “worth it” changes about training for a marathon.
Any runner knows just how devastating a running injury can be. When you run, and love running, not being able to run, or even not being able to run at full capacity is really, really difficult. For your average runner, avoiding a running injury should be relatively simple, but you would be surprised how easily it happens without even knowing it! Here’s how to run, train, and go the distance while, as much as possible, avoiding injury.
Every guy, at some point in his life, has been told to “be a man.” Now, there are some implications about what that actually means, but the point is that it inherently carried with it a command to grow into someone that we weren’t yet. However, I think we need to aim a little higher. It’s time to be better men.
What’s the point of etiquette anyway? For us — those of us who strive to be gentleman, who want to be successful in work and in life — etiquette is not only about doing the right thing, it’s about elevating your game. Good etiquette, whether professional or personal, is what puts you a cut above the rest.
You may have noticed that there are a few things I really like to talk about on my blog. One is business, and the other is running. At first glance, it doesn’t really seems like there’s all that much in common between the two. But I honestly believe in that running, in many ways, has helped me be a better professional. And I think it can make you a better professional, too.
Runners (particularly endurance runners) have a special relationship with our fuel—ahem, our food. It can be a balancing act of portions and timing, not to mention actual substance. You eat the wrong thing at the wrong time, or have too much of it—even something as innocent as water—and you could be paying for it dearly on your run.
Instead of recommending specific snacks, I’ve got a few general pieces of advice regarding snacks and nutrition for runnings. Most of it has been gleaned from experience and research.
