P90X | Week 8
Wed: P90X Back & Biceps
Thu: P90X Yoga X (Truncated)
Fri: One on One with Tony Horton PlyoLegs (ROCKED)
Nutrition/Eating Log

Wed. = Excellent workout, lots of pull-ups and bicep work, used the 30's for most moves, downshifted to 20's near the end... Arms shaking. Solid breakfast. Then my usual mid-morning snack = Shakeology. A must-have mini-meal, amazing feeling after eating it, excellent nutrition to fill in the cracks, and my weight has been sticking to my goal. I feel it helping, and it can help you too.

On to more ProQuest video production -- working my way through the 44 pages of the all new eLibrary -- then SIRS... Great to be busy!

Thu.: Happy anniversary Deb -- my wife, my lover, my friend, 15 years... Too great!

Bill Shatner Reads Sarah Palin's Tweets



Afghanistan: War #2
Source: NPR

Companies: Avoid the Death Spiral

From Seth Godin -- genius...

Death spiral!

You've probably seen it. The fish monger sees a decline in business, so they have less money to spend on upkeep and inventory, so they keep the fish a bit longer and don't clean up as often, so of course, business declines and then they have even less money... Eventually, you have an empty, smelly fish store that's out of business.

The doctor has fewer patients so he doesn't invest as much in training or staff and so some other patients choose to leave which means that there are even fewer patients...

The newspaper has fewer advertisers, so they can't invest as much in running stories, so people stop reading it, which means advertisers have less reason to advertise which leaves less money for stories...

As Tom Peters says, "You can't shrink your way to greatness," and yet that's what so many dying businesses try to do. They hunker down and wait for things to get better, but they don't. This isn't a dip, it's a cul de sac. It's over.

Right this minute, you still have some cash, some customers, some momentum... Instead of squandering it in a long, slow, death spiral, do something else. Buy a new platform. Move. Find new products for the customers that still trust you.

Change is a bear, but it's better than death.