This past weekend I attended the 35th reunion of my senior year’s college football team, then drove across the state to play golf with my brothers on the 20th anniversary of our Dad’s passing at the too early age of 57. Two events the same weekend driven by the same force, yet from two opposite […]
When we look at what’s wrong first, we start from a negative perspective, a negative mindset of what went awry, what expectations we didn’t meet, who caused this failure. The first act is often to determine blame. Focusing on the negative is the path of least resistance. What if, instead, we build on what is
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A new football coaching staff has arrived at my alma mater, Lafayette College, and with a new staff comes a new mindset, new ideas and a new motto. The Head Coach is using the phrase “It’s a privilege, not a right, to play and coach for the Lafayette Leopards”. He is building off the rich
I started this blog after hearing a talk by Dr. Barry Corey, President of Biola University, a private Evangelical Christian university located in La Mirada, CA. He has a book titled Love Kindness: Discover the Power of a Forgotten Christian Virtue. Kindness is not niceness. The word nice/niceness is not in the bible, but kind/kindness
Most golfers, myself included, look to hit the biggest shot every time. When we step up to the tee, we pull out a driver. We whack the ball, hopefully we whack it harder and farther than those playing in our foursome and then we proudly stride up the fairway, planning the next big shot. We
Today’s world is full of labels with the intent to clash one side against another. Everyone needs to be pigeonholed into a box so we can create sides, generate controversy and friction. This simplifies things, especially for the media who use it to drive ratings. Their argument is that it creates a common reference point
When we first taught tackling to high school football players we started off using the phrase “break down” as the expression for the player to get into a tackling position. Coaches of all ages and across the country use that expression. However, we came to realize that command made the player come to a
We have a sign in the football locker room, “Discipline is not what we do to you, it is what we do for you”. As a high school football coach, an unexpected requirement of the job is to convince young men that discipline is not a bad word. Until that point in their life for
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“To follow” – go or come after (a person or thing proceeding ahead); to accept as a guide or leader; accept the authority of or give allegiance to; to conform to, comply with, or act in accordance with; obey. “To Join” – to connect, or bring or put together; to come into union with; to
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When someone says “have a nice day” or my wife tells me “safe travels”, over the years my answer has become “I’ll do my part” which can often get me weird looks (no longer from my wife, she chose to marry me). None of us have complete control over our circumstances so how can we possibly
