Starting walking meetings

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or fluorescent-lit conference room meetings,

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I ask people to go on a walking meeting,

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to the tune of 20 to 30 miles a week.

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It's changed my life.

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But before that, what actually happened was,

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I used to think about it as,

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you could take care of your health,

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or you could take care of obligations,

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and one always came at the cost of the other.

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So now, several hundred of these walking meetings later,

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I've learned a few things.

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First, there's this amazing thing

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about actually getting out of the box

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that leads to out-of-the-box thinking.

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Whether it's nature or the exercise itself, it certainly works.

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And second, and probably the more reflective one,

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is just about how much each of us

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can hold problems in opposition

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when they're really not that way.

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And if we're going to solve problems

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and look at the world really differently,