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Those of you who have followed Tom Peters over the years know how much he’s contributed to the growth of excellence in businesses worldwide.    His book In Search of Excellence he co-authored with Robert Waterman is considered “the greatest business book of all time” by many and indispensable by most.

Well, Tom has a new book called The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue EXCELLENCE.  I am thrilled and honored Mr. Peters included of my essays as one of the ways to pursue excellence!   Mine is pursuit #50 starting on page 136 about how you have to show up to move up.  You can read my contribution by downloading the Acrobat pdf of it here (posted with permission):  Show Up! (It’s a Start.)

The Little Big Things (163 Ways to Pursue EXCELLENCE)

My copy of Little BIG Things arrived last week and it is indeed a BIG book – a whopping 576 pages in all.  But it isn’t the type of book you read cover-to-cover in one sitting.  All of the 163 pursuits are condensed nuggets of excellence building tips and strategies.  Pick one, read it, think about it and digest it.

There is a lot you can take out of just one of the tips.  If you employ all 163 you’ll be unstoppable!

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How to manage your goals online

by Brad Isaac on March 2, 2010

reaching your goals

This past week, I announced to my newsletter subscribers a new tool that will help both new and experienced goal setters add more impact to their goal plans.  Appropriately enough titled Achieve-IT! Online it is an online web-app version of my goal setting strategies.  These are the same strategies I’ve used for decades and the same my clients use to get what they want out of life.

You can read more about the history of this project here.

But where Achieve-IT! Desktop is currently bound to Windows machines, Achieve-IT! online is open to just about anyone with a browser.  So I encourage you to give this new goal setting system a try and let me know your thoughts.

There are several levels of accounts.  But for signing up, everyone gets the professional level for free for 30 days. At that point you can choose to keep the pro features or stick with a free or student account.

Cheers! :)

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Couch to 5k week 3 and 4

by Brad IsaacFebruary 16, 2010

I’m behind on my running posts. Why? Just swamped.
Anyway, here is the latest.
Week 3 of the program (like prior weeks) took us longer. Part of the reason was due to ice storms in NC which made jogging and driving to the gym hazordous. One day, we shoveled snow and [...]

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Couch to 5k Week 2

by Brad IsaacJanuary 24, 2010

My journal about my week 2 with the couch to 5k program – a training schedule designed to help you work up gradually to running a 5k marathon. You can read my notes on week 1 here. These are my two week results including feeling more energetic and how I am keeping motivated.
You can read [...]

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Stepping up your walking habit

by Brad IsaacJanuary 18, 2010

Think you are walking enough to keep fit? Recent studies may surprise you. They certainly raised my eyebrows.
It’s a great time to be alive.
With technology advances things as simple as counting steps can become automatic and give you instant feedback.
My son showed me his latest Nintendo DS toy called Nintendo Personal trainer walking. [...]

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Ask Brad: Help me reach my goal to be a web guru

by Brad IsaacJanuary 15, 2010

Dear Brad,
My name is Dusan and I am living in Serbia.
My dream is to become IT professional in the field of network and web.
I am in college and I learn computer science.
My problem is that I learn only the basic of the programs, nothing advanced.
And when I read the blogs of IT I can not [...]

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Ongoing Couch to 5K running review

by Brad IsaacJanuary 13, 2010

Over the past holiday, my wife and I both felt the Spirit though we ate a little bit too much and exercised a little bit to little.
So we decided something had to be done.
Together we talked about doing the couch to 5K running plan. Which is a “get up and go” start running plan for [...]

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