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JUNE 6, 2014

Are you someone who travels a lot for business or is headed out on a vacation and you don’t want to abandon your healthy eating habits? Personal Presence diet healthy eating travel food' Or maybe you’re thinking the life of fast food in the airport or at highway exits is your only option and it’s all bad.

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MARCH 9, 2021

How and when should I continue to capture the value of meeting virtually without the added overhead of travel time and expense? For my clients, the virtual approach has reduced the barriers to entry of leadership development like participants’ time out of the office and travel expenses.

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MARCH 23, 2021

Ten years ago, I started taking Lunesta every night to deal with restless sleep caused by my MS and because I was traveling across time zones several times a month for business trips. When the pandemic cancelled all of my travel, I decided it was a good time to wean myself off of Lunesta and asked my doctor for a plan to do so.

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APRIL 12, 2022

The fact that Seth went to them in a time when it wasn’t easy to travel sent a big message about how much he valued them. The point of the dinners was to learn about each other and build a foundation of trust that would enable them to lead well together later.

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MAY 15, 2012

This past weekend I traveled to Cambridge, Mass., for the 25th reunion of my graduating class at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Just writing that makes me feel old.) Click headline to continue.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Last week, I introduced a new short series for Mindful Mondays with a post titled Travel Tips for the Mindful Road Warrior. To be honest, when I started writing that post I realized I had more to share than one blog post could accommodate – hence, this series. Last week’s post focused on the physical routines that I follow when.

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AUGUST 25, 2014

Sometimes, it’s just a happy surprise and other times, I’ll use frequent flyer miles to secure a seat up front at the end of a long week of travel. Last week was one of those long week of travel scenarios. Because I fly a lot for my work, I get upgraded to first class a good bit.

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

She was travelling on her own airline and as her plane from taxiing away from its gate at JFK, a flight attendant gave her macadamia nuts without asking if she wanted any and, (worse!) You don''t have to look very hard in any given week to find examples of leaders behaving badly. This week had a couple of doozies. left them in the package.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A client who frequently travels internationally told me a fascinating story recently. My client is a regular visitor to Africa and told me about a safari tour guide he met in Botswana. This guide is so skilled and experienced at what he does that he can approach an 18,000 pound bull elephant with no fear of being charged.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

If, through some miracle of time travel, the two were able to have had a conversation about the practice of leadership, I think Machiavelli could have learned some things from Mandela. Here’s just one example of what he might have learned.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

All that time reclaimed from not traveling can leave some people feeling a little lost about productive ways to fill their days. What problems are they trying to solve and how can I help them solve their problems? These are the kinds of questions the best virtual sales leaders ask themselves. They wake up every day with a plan.

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JANUARY 20, 2014

One of the good news/bad news aspects of my work is that I travel a lot. The good news part is I love the work and the people I work with. The bad news part is I also love being home and, sometimes, I find myself not paying a lot of attention to what’s out there on the road.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

  In an average year, I'll travel internationally once or twice.  With a six hour time change and 18 hours of travel, it had been a long day but not a stressful one.    Mainly domestic in the US, two or three round trip flights a month for business. 

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AUGUST 1, 2013

While travelling this week, I’ve been reading This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in in America''s Gilded Capital by New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich. It’s a simultaneously entertaining and depressing account of the power elite in Washington, DC.

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JANUARY 3, 2012

Unless, of course, the physicists at CERN figure out time travel this year.) We gave each other a hug hello at class the other night and she said, “Well, here we are.” My response was, “Yeah, 2012, it’s the only year we’ve got.” So, for now, this is the only year you’ve got. What do you want to do with it? Only you do.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

He was a great guy and we talked off and on as we travelled from DC to LA. As I was thinking about it last night, I recalled a conversation I had last weekend on a cross country flight. My seatmate turned out to be a 16 year U.S. Marine named Hector. Click headline to continue.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

I look forward to travelling with you and continuing the conversation. Small steps consistently taken can make a big difference. As I said at the outset, I invite you to join me in taking a series of small steps this year to make it better.

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MAY 4, 2017

The conclusion you would draw is that commercial air travel always sucks. His attitude changed, however, when Katherine was called to first class to administer CPR for 45 minutes to a passenger in 2B who had a heart attack while traveling with his eight-year-old daughter. And sometimes it’s ok. Sadly, he didn’t make it.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

" The traveller then asked the second man what he was doing.  "  Finally, the traveler asked the third man the question.  She has allowed me to travel with her and introduced me to many stakeholders in the industry we serve. " It's all about perspective and intent. 

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For other connection conversation starters, the ninja level guides at Museum Hack offer these ideas: What’s your favorite place of all the places you’ve travelled? Gratitude is a great place to start and return to from time to time. If you were immortal, what age would you choose to stop aging at and why? What was the worst job you ever had?

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JUNE 24, 2020

Get out – There are some upsides to working from home, but one of the downsides is you’ve lost the variety of mental input you get when you travel back and forth to your office. Better yet, get a standing desk and a headset so you can walk around during your calls.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

One that stuck with me was from a CNN reporter who was riding along with a crew of civilians in an airboat that had traveled from three hours away to come rescue people from the flooding. (You can help Houston and the Gulf Coast by donating to any of these organizations.). The stories are remarkable.

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MARCH 24, 2020

So, that would have triggered a lot of things on my part – prepping for the sessions, making travel arrangements, final base-touch calls with the client, etc. For instance, the calendar reminded me that I had two day-long leadership development sessions to deliver in St. Louis the first week of April.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

With thanks to the Museum Hack website , here are ten questions that can help you find the person behind the professional: What’s your favorite place of all the places you’ve travelled? If you were immortal, what age would you choose to stop aging at and why? What was the worst job you ever had?

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

  As an article in the New York Times points out, they’re on the front line of this change and have to deal with a lot of frustrated and skeptical travelers.    For example, he recently called air travel a “privilege”.  .  Prep and equip the front line:   You have to feel for the average TSA staffer. 

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Last week I flew from Los Angeles to Baltimore and back and, like just about every other American who flies, was so grateful for the professionalism of the TSA agents and air traffic controllers whose job it is to keep travelers safe and alive.

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JANUARY 25, 2016

I benefitted from her changes too because when I’m not on business travel I eat what she eats. Last Fall, Diane recognized that she was addicted to added sugar and decided to eliminate it from her diet. Since then, she’s experienced all of the positive outcomes I listed at the beginning of this post.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

It lets us travel the way a child travels, around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved. It's a time machine. It goes backwards. It takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called The Wheel. It's called The Carousel.

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

I have a friend who likes to visit twice a month, I also have family a couple hours away, and then work travel. Sometimes for a mood lift I look at the before and after photos. I also realized not to feel guilty about needing time to myself. I would feel guilty about saying no to family or friends.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

Much like the GPS you use when travelling, the Life GPS® helps to get you where you want to go by clarifying the desired destination and outlining the steps you’ll need to take to get there. .  We use a planning tool we created together early in our marriage that we call the Life GPS®. 

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JULY 13, 2010

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

  In the meantime, here are some of the leadership lessons Feld has learned that stuck with me: Know Yourself:  Feld learned the circus by traveling around the world with his father searching for acts.  The interview itself is worth five minutes of your time. 

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JULY 16, 2010

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JULY 23, 2010

Main | Business Travel Divas Turn Themselves In » July 23, 2010 Fear Kills In case you didnt see it, a report in the New York Times earlier this week offers a stark example of what can happen when the culture of an organization discourages open and honest dialogue. Thats Not Leadership.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Reid travelled around the world twice – once on his publisher’s dime and again to film a documentary for PBS – to learn about how health care is delivered in different countries. I had a stark reminder of this last Friday when I went to hear journalist T.R.

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JULY 29, 2010

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Another is that he was spending most for his days off traveling from New York to California to take care of his mom who is dying from cancer. (Do I can’t stop reading about this story – there are so many layers to it. One is that, until this week, Slater had an exemplary career with Jet Blue.

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