Marathon Training Comes Early

My colleague reminded us, we have 20 weeks to KLIM 2008 (KL International Marathon).

It is time to be bold and take the marathon challenge.

My target? Finish by 6hrs. My other target? Get 10 people from my company's running club to join. One goal is easier than the other. Guess which... :-)

Pay it Forward

Today, I was fortunate to be gifted an act of kindness. At almost 1045pm when I was heading home through the Jalan Damansara toll booth, I realised I had entered in the Plus gate with insufficient funds. The guard seated there had no idea to reset the gate and take my money and I was caught sweating it waving my hand whilst 3-4 cars started piling up behind me.

Guess what?

The car at the back of me, the driver got off the car, came to swipe the toll with her Plus card and told me to go ahead and ran back to her car. I was stumped and actually went ahead and drove on, quite surprised by this super kind $1 act!!! Instead of swearing at me, someone actually paid for me! (And I left without saying thank you or paying her, as she had ran back to her car).

Dear kind stranger, thank you. Even if virtually done. You made my day.

Living the Extreme Life

I'd like to think I live the extreme life.

When I was in school, I imagined living in an igloo and how boring it would be to spend the day in an ice white round dome. Then I thought about the interconnecting igloos and how I could crawl to other's igloos and then I watched TV and saw the eskimos cooking in an igloo, how can the smoke escape when all the igloos are connected, how to crawl out if you are fat... well it goes on...

In fact, the above is a true story. I did have those kind of abstract imagination when I was younger, as the blog goes, I'd like to think I am a processor able to see things in a movie-like fashion.

Similarly too, I've found that since I joined the corporate world many years ago, I've had fewer opportunities to really explore and live the extreme life.

I'd like to tell people I am the exception to the rule. This is my first job. There are ups and downs but spending at least 12 hours in a work-like environment everyday sometimes drains our creativity and mind.

Meeting people and learning things has enabled me to be fascinated with a different kind of extreme - the actions of an extreme leader - one who inspires but yet is individual.

I'd like to think I will always aspire to be the extreme leader in both life and work. With that, I'd like to welcome all to my new blog - http://www.extremeleadership.blogspot.com/

Always experimenting ... :-)