Why did I write this book? Why am I being so open?

For the last 30 years, I have been very open and honest with my friends - especially sitting in the cockpit of my boat in the early mornings in the Caribbean with buddies.

I found as I share and talk about personal stories of my life; they reciprocate and find it a very healing process. With that in mind and wanting to leave a legacy for my children, I decided to take on this project. It has taken me over two years and what began as a legacy project; I believe has developed into a book that may attract a larger audience.

In doing research on other books, we have not found a personal autobiography on feelings especially eating disorders by a male. This one is a first.

I have found that society is changing. We are becoming more open. We are not living a lie. For years families have been keeping secrets -- looking good on the outside, but perhaps not so good on the inside. Secrets keep us sick and secrets keep us unhealthy. I wanted to change that.

I found that writing an autobiography is like climbing a mountain - however, writing a personal autobiography is like climbing the Himalayas.

I'm also working to develop an eating disorder clinic at The Retreat in Wayzata. It is a program I would partially fund through the Burt Nordstrand family foundation and perhaps I can use the launch of this book as a promotion for that project. It also developed into a project that I hope can be helpful to other people. With all of that in mind, I have taken the risk to tell a very personal story."

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Reply #2 on : Tue August 21, 2012, 19:22:00
Stuart: I agree with the apparent dlfticuify of envisioning the Far Future. We operate at such break neck speed matched with a brutal performance mentality that we're sometimes just hoping to survive the next millisecond. But we know in our knowers that this is an unhealthy paradigm.Several years ago, one of my mentors taught me about Cathedral Thinking' a concept named by those who built cathedrals in the Dark / Middle Ages.When breaking ground for a new cathedral, the builders would plant little oak tree saplings around the construction site'. Why? Would they need shade? Gardening practice? Nope. When they completed the temple 75-100 years later, they would need wood for the pews. Having planted these trees a century in advance, the wood supply would not be in danger.The question for us is, how do we make long range cathedral thinking' part of our regular routine? I do mine once per 6 months, and ask a range of probing, satellite view questions. This of course includes a review of the strategic vision of the company.Sharing your insane ideas with a key relationship is a 2nd way to shore up the long term vision.
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Reply #1 on : Thu May 03, 2012, 14:54:58
Today is virtuous indisposed, isn't it?

Burt Nordstrand

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