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I received a call from a friend last night who I hadn’t spoken to in awhile. When I asked him how he was, he said “Good, but BUSY!”  Moments later he asked me the same question, and the most honest answer I could give him was the same, “Good, but BUSY!”

This is a topic that has been on my mind a lot of late, and I have come to believe that being busy is one of the hallmarks of our society today. It also has become a very familiar complaint in my coaching work with individuals. And as a busy person myself, finding the time to exercise is something I have wrestled with as well.

What I have realized is that there are two critical steps each of us must consider if we want to be successful at incorporating exercise into our busy schedules.

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Do you know what you really want? I don’t mean in terms of what car you drive or what kind of home you live in. Sure, homes and cars and toys are a part of life, but they are not what ultimately gives us meaning or happiness. So, when I ask this question, I am not really speaking in material terms at all.

Instead what I mean is do you really know what you want out of life? Do you know who you really want to be in this world?

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Like most of us, I spent last week watching the world tumble into economic turmoil as stock markets worldwide buckled in the wake of enormous bank failures and the US housing market collapse.

The latest reports suggest that retirement accounts of Americans have lost $2 trillion in the past 15 months. In just the past week- the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 18 percent which is the largest drop ever in a week.

Why?

There are many and very complex reasons, but allow me to point out three that are most obvious:

• Wall Street focused on maximizing short-term profits in order to earn record bonuses
• The government, on both sides of the aisle, appears to have been acting out of partisan self-interest rather than looking at was best for America in the long-run
• Many of us on took up loans because we wanted to live in houses and drive cars that were beyond our means, and then housing values fell substantially.

Like most of the world I, too, have a wide range of emotions about this: anxiety about the future and well-being of my family, and anger at the people who got us into this mess.

Yet, as I sit here contemplating all of this, I’m left with one resounding question running through my head:

“Where are the adults?”

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I went for a great run down by the Hudson River yesterday evening.  I met
with a client down at the end of a long pier to have a chat (always
good to get out of the office), and then when we were done, I did a
bunch of calisthenic exercises and then had a great run.

This is around 67th street, down where they
have done a fantastic restoration project.  It’s sort of a prairie
theme, so there are all these tall grasses everywhere, with all sort
of really cool places to sit and watch the river, or joggers and
bikers going by.

There is a great wooden boardwalk running the length
of the area, and some fantastic stone piers stretching a good ways out
over the river.

I happened to be down there around dusk. There was a very light cloud cover, not enough to fully obscure the sun, and so the colors were just dazzling.

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