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I work in Milan, Italy. At frog.

Posted by admin in Beef on 16/11/2011

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A week in a bchallenge

Posted by admin in Beef on 11/10/2011

I got promoted… by my self. I was able to spend a full working week going to bed early, waking up at 6 and having a run before my usual day started. Phew.

Despite what friends and colleagues told me (a week is too short as a timeframe; you’re not really changing your behavior; why don’t you continue; etc.) my only aim was to prove my self I was able to do it. And I succeeded.

I also learned some good lessons that might be valuable in the future:

  1. if you want to wake up early, go to bed early;
  2. have a clear agenda; you have to plan in advance how to organize your evening, if you want to go to bed early;
  3. make your effort public; your ego will be a fierce allied in supporting your effort (and to me, having my President aware of this challenge was quite helpful :-) ;
  4. choose your rhythm; always go to bed at the same hour, always wake up at the same hour. This will help your body in assess the change.
  5. communicate your results; daily. Blogging and tweeting every night and morning really helped me in keeping the pace (see also point 3)
  6. resist. eh.
All in all, I enjoyed this week. It helped keeping me focused. And even busier.

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The behaviour cha(lle)nge

Posted by admin in Beef on 04/10/2011

AKA changing (some of) my habits for a week and tracking the results. but first things first.

I’m really happy when the alarmclock is not ringing thus I’m able to wake up early enough to have a whooole day in front of me. I love to sleep, even if I was not able to wake up after 10 am, during vacation days, since I was 23.

Yesterday I had a nice lunch with the global innovation firm frog President Doreen Lorenzo (caveat: I’m Technology Director at frog Milan studio) and I was curious about her standard day: she wakes up at 4am (yes, 4, four, quattro) she dedicates one hour to emails and then two hours to physical activity; it might be a run on the street or a gym session depending on where she is. And the she goes back, has a shower and prepare for the office.

I told her I would die with such a regimen; but she definitely inspired me. Once I was a runner. But it’s now a year I haven’t run a single mile, shame on me. And the inspiration is: I can do that; I can wake up early in the morning (not at 4, at 6 am:-) ) can run for ~one hour and then prepare for my day.

And the good thing is that I’ll blog the outcomes. This will last for a week. Are you ready? I definitely am!

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