1. Congratulations
2013 CISB Graduates!

2. Four Lessons from the Road
1. Solve their problems.
– Make them glad you met.
2. Be humble.
– Listen and learn.
3. Be interesting.
– Your passion makes you real.
4. Find your natural power…

3. “Life can only be understood backwards
but it must be lived forwards.”
- Søren Kierkegaard

4. Glamorous Life?
• Away from family and friends
• Sleep disruption
• Broken routines
• Productivity gaps
• Perpetual
entertaining

5. Therefore, you need to be
stronger than the average human.

6. Sustainability
• Making it personal.

7. Happiness is our reward
for living in harmony with nature.

8. Consider…
• Or a bioluminescent
deep sea shrimp
• A hawk in the forest
canopy
Each is perfectly adapted to its own habitat

9. But…
• remove them from their natural habitat and
they are in trouble

10. Human Ecology
• We no longer live in the
ecosystem into which
we evolved
• Today, we buy our
lifestyle from businesses

11. 21st Century Living
• The pace of change for
evolution is slow
• But for our lifestyle,
change is exponential
World Wide Web
Personal
Computer
Model A
Printing Press
Writing
Symbols
Homo Sapiens
Evolve Speech
Man on the
Moon

12. “I am two with nature.”
- Woody Allen

14. Elements of Natural Happiness
(PERSONAL SUSTAINABILITY)
A Strong BODY
A Mighty SPIRIT
Powerful RELATIONSHIPS
Pursuit of MASTERY

15. What Can I Do?
• Learn every day…
– about food and fitness, character and courage,
listening and giving, willpower and productivity.
• Quantify yourself.
• Reconnect with nature, neighbors, and self.
• Create nano-goals, build powerful habits,
automate tasks, simplify and focus.
• Kaizen your life.

16. “We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act
but a habit.”
- Aristotle