From KT- Oct. 4, 2017

Yo DaVitans!!

I hope you are well, and I look forward to locking arms and getting some good stuff done for each other during MTM X !!  The healthier we get, the better able we will be to help others – not to mention we will be more fun to be around!

 I am off to a good start.  The 30 minutes of exercise is an easy one for me, as many of you MTM veterans know – as I exercise almost every day all year round.   Even when I travel my assistant knows to figure out when in the day I will exercise, before it gets filled up.  The stretching timeouts will be harder for me – I am used to getting some good stretching in as part of my morning workout, but not as good as doing it later in the day.  MTM is already helping, as I have done better on this front already.

 Last Monday-Tuesday I had a 36 hour journey from Rwanda, Africa to Denver.   I was home for 56 hours, and then had a 26 hour journey from Denver to Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia.  So the body is a bit stressed.  We have had some great meetings with our Malaysian partners, Khazanah … and our Japanese partners, Mitsui.  I have been getting a strong workout each morning, which has really helped me get thru the day.  I have had a business dinner each night, two of them with DaVita teammates which is work but so pleasant it does not feel like hard work.   Not too much, anyway.

 Today we had some important meetings with a potential Chinese partners, that we have been talking to off and on for three years.  It is pretty cool that for years they had used DaVita as a role model for building their company before we ever met them.  They were introduced at a recent large nephrology conference in China as “the DaVita of China,” .. which was a compliment for them, and it is the same for us!

 I am eating too much on this trip – when you are jet lagged and there is food all over the conference, as well as huge buffets with lots of great Asian food, it is a temptation I need to do better with.  After dinner each night is the time to do phone calls back to the states, because it is 14 hours later here than Denver. 

I hope each of you is off to a good start in Match the Mayor !  I wish a healthier life for you …
I was in a small village in Viet Nam, and talked to a Buddhist monk … he said one thing I will never forget …. Namely “one cannot pour from an empty cup”

Take care of yourself!

 Your Mayor, KT