I had a rough February. First came the vertigo attack on Feb 1. Then I fell on Feb 8 in the gym with Erik and broke my “indestructible” glasses. (Oh yeah? I’ll give you indestructible.) I wrenched my problematic knee on Feb 24, and I had such pain I was not able to dance in […]
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I’m back from Belgium Testing Days. I had a blast. When I was in Belgium, I had a chance to visit with Yves Hanoulle and his delightful family. Lisa Crispin and her husband Bob and I took the train out to see Yves. I’d asked in email how large the gap between the train and
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In Siebert’s model (see The Resiliency Advantage), part 2 of building your emotional resilience is problem-solving. Well, I know a lot about problem-solving. I teach Problem Solving Leadership with Jerry and Esther. Siebert says, on p. 54 of the book: The most resilient people, in contrast, control their emotional reactions in a crisis, engage the
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I had another vertigo attack last week. I had a head cold, possibly a case of the flu, and boom, a vertigo attack. I wrote it up, so you could see what’s it like to be inside a vertigo attack. It’s not fun. My assessment of where I am physically, is that my balance is
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I had a vertigo attack today. I was not expecting it. (No one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition!) I’d gone to the gym, had a great cardio workout, had a good breakfast, drunk all my green tea and was on to my seltzer and was working on my keynote for next week, when I started
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I’m all for being green. We recycle. We moved to the compact florescent light bulbs early—probably too early. Mark grumbled about expensive those first generation light bulbs were. Now when we throw out the garbage, we have a tiny little bag of garbage, and big bins of plastic, newspapers, tin, and cardboard. Our recycling comingles.
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As I work through the training for my vertigo, I keep remembering what my vestibular therapist said last week. Her words were, “This requires mental toughness. It’s like running a marathon 20 minutes, twice a day.” When I use the BrainPort to retrain my brain (using techniques of neuroplasticity) to change how my brain adapts
I’m in Toronto today, experimenting with a new vertigo treatment, called the Brainport. It’s teaching my tongue to learn where I am in space, to relearn my proprioception. Why am I in Canada? Because the FDA hasn’t approved it for use in the US. And, I suspect that the FDA non-approval has a lot to
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When I was in 10th grade, I struggled with my foreign language, French. We were translating The Sword of Roland, “L’Epee D’Roland.” I am pretty sure that when I spoke in class, it sounded like “Leh pee (!) deh roa-land.” The correct pronunciation would be “Leh peh deh roh-land.” My teacher that year told me
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I’m in Albuquerque this week, teaching PSL with Esther and Jerry. The last time I was in Albuquerque was last December, 6 months ago, planning the AYE conference with Esther, Jerry, and Don. At the time, I was able to walk about a half block before I needed to sit for a while, because I
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