Know When To Speak Up

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! Know when to speak up.” – 8,789 Words of Wisdom One thing I’ve learned via social media is that there’s a time and a place for everything that we say, and the level of appropriateness is often relative to 2 things in particular. One is is the national (or global) community […]

Expect The Best

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! Happy Monday! This weekend, I had the good fortune of getting back out on the basketball court. It’s something I love to do, but rarely have (make) time to do. I’m always looking for perspective and life lessons. Sports and competition tend to provide many of them, and Sunday morning […]

Leaders Set Priorities

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Good morning, ladies, and gentlemen! Happy Friday! From Stan Toler’s, “Minute Motivators for Leaders” Ineffective leaders do the obvious things first. Effective leaders do the important things first. A good leader knows that urgent and vitalare not equivalent terms. Many tasks cry out for attention. But the effective leader decides which of those tasks are truly important to the achievement of […]

Be A Lifelong Learner

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! It’s amazing how much there is in this world that we don’t know. Things that we never think to think about. This morning, I came across an interesting read. A few minutes and few clicks later I found myself engaged in thinking about some things that I’d hadn’t really considered […]

The Rubber Year

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! And happy new year! The team member who spends an inordinate amount of time reflecting on the last play is the one who probably won’t have the courage to execute the next one.” – Stan Toler This, as I have mentioned to some of my friends and family already, is […]

Doing Big Things

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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen! Travel and catching up got the best of me today, so I apologize for the delayed send! We find ourselves in the last few hours of the calendar year. We’ve already begun to make moves on some things, we are prepared to move on some, and we’re still figuring others out. […]

Open To New Traditions

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. And happy Monday! You’ve probably heard of Kwanzaa. But you may or may not know anything about it. The celebration is a week long, commencing December 26th and culminating January 1st. I urge you, in the interest of simply exercising your brain and becoming more informed, to read up on […]

Preparing To Make The Play

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and happy Friday! “When the coach calls your number… You gotta do what the play calls for.” https://www.upworthy.com/a-bus-driver-just-saw-a-terrible-situation-and-hit-the-brakes-to-save-a-womans-life?c=ufb1 The gentleman in this video could easily have kept driving and just made a call to the police. That would have been the non-play. That would have been him relying on somebody else […]

Choosing Emotional Space

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Good day, ladies and gentlemen! I hope this finds you in great health and spirit. It’s usually over the course of these next few days that we are still on our “life is good high.” The presence or family, friends, gifts, the approach of the new year, and days off of work tend to do […]

The Best 9

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Good morning, and happy Monday, ladies and gentlemen! At the beginning of the December, I explained that this month was to the new year, as the last bit of pregame is to game time. It’s during this period that I make sure I am ready to go full speed when the first whistle blows. It’s at […]

Reflecting On Our Inner Dialogue

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! And Happy Friday! Hard to believe it, but we are already on the tail end of this month. 12 days left including today. On a daily basis, we can attribute a large part of our happiness to the internal dialogue we are having. Mary Morrisey explains that, according to scientists, […]

Time To Enrich Our Lives

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! “Your work should enrich your spirit.” – 8,789 Words of Wisdom “[T]oday would be a great day to pause and ask, ‘Deep down inside of me, what really matters? What are one or two or three things that I want to be sure gets fit into the core and center […]