My Workout Fail

It's so funny to me how things happen and I've stopped trying to figure out how and why but here's the latest.

I recently acquired a personal trainer. I went out for a run on Sunday and it was hard. My legs were tired, the heat was rising and my new orthotics are waking up long sleeping muscles. I ran 3 miles and my time was much slower than my glory days last spring . . . yada, yada, yada.

Anyway, I get home, open Google Reader and see Jason Sieden's latest, Workout Fail . . . ? Jason started on a fitness journey and he's sharing it with his readers.

Did I hear a challenge?

I always hear a challenge in Jason's writing. A challenge for me to take a look at how I am doing things from a different perspective - and that's a good thing.

So, here goes nothing . . . I am no longer looking back and beating myself up for the food I ate, the exercise I didn't do and the shape I am in now. Like Jason, I am embarking on a fitness journey. Unlike Jason, I am not posting a picture of my abs but I am signing up for Livestrong to geek out along the way.

My goal - go from zero to hero and run the Earth Day Half-Marathon in April with a 10 min/mi pace. Either I run and finish at that pace or - in the words of Jason - I fail, spectacularly, trying.

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My Kind Of HR

Trench HR, especially employee relations, is a complex, hand slapping, no-you-can't-do-that kind of a profession.

It's all about the rules and as HR pros, we need to make sure supervisors maintain a healthy respect for the system, do what we tell them to do, don't give employees an inch because they will take a mile and above all, be afraid . . . be very afraid.

Right?

Wrong.

That's not my kind of HR.

Taking what we know as HR pros (with our junior lawyer cards tucked safely away) to educate supervisors, make HR understandable and accessible, work with managers to address employee issues and concerns, and to teach, train, mentor, and advise . . .now, that's my kind of HR. 

Actually, that's my kind of anything.