I guess the trick is to make the long term items even more urgent than today's emergencies. Break them into steps and give them deadlines. Measure your people on what they did today in support of where you need to be next month.I would say we are doing very well on the long term goal aspect; we need to align our short term activities - specifically around the April 13th 5K event in JP Park - in line with our long term goals. The daily conference call we are having since yesterday will go a long way in ensuring this alignment between long term vision and short term planning and activities.
Happy Employees, Productive Company, Successful Business.The second real pot-of-gold is the improvement of India's position in the Global Sports Community. To increase the number and frequency of Indian nationals showing up on the Podiums of Olympics and other world sports events.
Find your personal best time for a 5K or a 10KMark the distance in any park or sports stadium. Run and/or jog and/or walk the entire distance. Use a sophisticated timer or an ordinary wrist watch to time yourself. You don't have to break the world record; you just have to complete. And in case you have any aspirations of breaking the world record, you will have to finish the 5K distance in less than 13:00 minutes.
You are going to be running this business a long time. Spend an extra month to figure out what your business model feels like and save yourself some headaches later on.Accepting the wisdom of this statement, I have chosen to reduce my efforts and time investment in my main business venture - in the Trading & Risk Management Software Best Practices Space, most likely around Murex software - for now, till I can get a clear grasp of how I will make money in the business; not just survive, but thrive in the business once I start.
To [define a business model] you need to answer two questions:The business model discussions for RunWalkIndia is still going on in the privacy of email communications. Hoping that the discussion will come to a commonly agreeable decision by Friday 21st March evening IST. That should allow for kicking off the efforts towards the organization of the first event in full earnest.
- Who has your money in their pockets?
- How are you going to get it into your pocket?
http://bangalorebuzz.blogspot.com/2006/03/breathe-easy-jp-park-is-here.html
The expansive 85-acre Jayaprakash Narayan Bio-diversity Park was formally inaugurated on 19.03.2006 and made open to the public by the then Karnataka Chief Minister.
On the occasion, he said: "We have a Cubbon Park which has come down from the British, a Lalbagh that's come from Tipu Sultan. The JP Park, BMP's biggest park to date, must be made as good as Cubbon and Lalbagh."
The park is a breather for the entire city, particularly for those in Mathikere, Jalahalli and Yeshwantpur. The park boasts of two lakes which have already attracted migratory birds, a rock garden, Nakshatra vana (star groove), tennis court, jogging track, etc.
This is north-west Bangalore's answer to Cubbon Park and Lalbagh. Eighty-five acres of sylvan bio-diversity, green belts of landscaped gardens and a groove that has plants that subscribe to your sun sign.
The Jayaprakash Narayan Park (JP Park) that has come up at the junction of Jalahalli and Mathikere after decades of delay, has been fortuitously revamped to beget the title of BMP's largest park.
The park boasts of 20,000 varieties of plant species, 60,000 flowering plants and shrubs and 5,000 medicinal herbs.
There is a rock garden in the park modelled after the one in Almatti. A musical fountain and a Plant Nursery is also proposed inside the park.
The park has three grooves called Pavithra Vana, which will have mini grooves called Nakshatra vana, Rashi Vana and Navagraha Vana. Apparently, each star in the zodiac constellation has a particular plant/tree ascribed to it.
The Park has a 4.5-km jogging track, bamboo garden, palm garden, play area for kids and women's playground with dedicated shuttle and tennicoit courts.
There are also a few acres devoted to a football court, volleyball ground, kabaddi ground and a 1,000-seater amphitheatre. Main attractions in the park are the two water bodies of 15 and nine acres each.
The bigger lake has already attracted migratory birds like pond heron, coot hen, little cormorant, moore hen, pelicans etc. At present, the park is open to the public freely at present.
Check out the following links on Seth Godin's blog - which I unearthed by searching for the term 'how ideas spread' on his blog:
For the team working on organizing the Apr 13th event:
1. Delegate work to others
2. Trust in their ability to do a perfect job
3. Be accountable, and have everyone be accountable.
4. Spend as much time as possible together.
5. Be open to feedback from others, and act on the advice.
6. Know that all lists are incomplete and disposable, including this.
Find ways to make it fun. If it is not fun to do it, it is not worth doing it, and most likely will not get done.
Have fun!
A person could start a marathon in JP Park and most likely end up at the new airport in Devanahalli by the end of it!!
What we are aiming to organize here is a short distance race - as short as 5K or even shorter (depending on the length of the jogging path in JP Park, and how many rounds one can have the race setup for and still be able to manage the event properly). This is a reasonable distance for a total newbie to running.
All my Indian friends - even the well educated ones - have no knowledge of the various racing distances, and the effort, training plan and benefits of each of the race distances. They group together all races under the umbrella term 'MARATHON'!! Makes me want to bang my head against the wall!
This is not a Marathon event. This is a 5K!
Meaning of Persistence.
Seth is indeed God in this world for anyone thinking of starting anything!
The Events are finalised as best feasible at the location according to ease with permissions.
A. 3K+ Run Event for athletes/amateurs/Youngsters/Age 20 and above with experience to run. (Can we call it a Short Marathon).
Path / Track - Starts at JP Park Start Line with one round inside the Park as assigned in clockwise direction and then exit park towards Mathikere Bus Stop and towards Ramaiah College Bus stop, take U-turn and return back to JPPark.
B. 1K Run for Age group 35-45 - Inside the Park
C. 1K Walk for Age group 45 and above - Inside the Park
D. Kids Dash-run of 100m for kids upto 10yrs - Inside the Park
Main objective of the race event on Apr 13th:
With the above objectives in mind, I have the following objection to advertising about this race in the newspapers or newspaper inserts.
The event should encourage community building by fueling and encouraging the interest in fitness - specifically with running and walking. We are not trying to fool anyone into go running and participate in this event. We are not forcing anyone to participate in this event. We want to give an opportunity for people who have an interest in increasing their fitness to participate in this event.
In my view, if there is a need for putting newspaper inserts three days before the event, then the event is a failure!
So everyone: Please inform as many people as you can about this event. Send emails to them. Send SMS messages to them. Talk with them about it.
Talk about it with your neighbor, your barber, the bus conductor, the vegetable vendor, the police constable, the grocery shop owner, the regular runners / joggers / walkers in JP Park, the local politicians, the doctors and the nurses in the Sumathi Nursing home and other hospitals, your parents & family members, your school mates…..
In short, Inform EVERYONE about the race!
The minute you start walking down a path toward a yak shaving party, it's worth making a compromise. Doing it well now is much better than doing it perfectly later.
.... and have fun participating in or watching the following events:
5 KM running race for adults (all ages above 12 years?)
1 KM walk for elders (50 and above?) and handicapped people (Removed later for simplicity sake)
100 M / 200 M dash for kids
