Time of Renewal
Great morning, ladies and gentlemen! Happy Good Friday! If your mind was a physical place into which people could walk, would you want them there? Would they want to be there? Would they be safe there? Would it even be a place that you would want to walk into or spend time in? If your mind was your home, […]
Case Of The Buts
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! Happy Friday! The word “but.” A tricky little word, It was in my persuasive communications course in college that I learned how damaging a word it can be. Simply put, the word but negates everything that came before it. When you use the word in discussion, people tend to remember […]
Writing A Legacy
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! One of the most profound statements I’ve heard in 2014 (and probably in my adult life), was from Eric Thomas. He said, “When you become successful, you don’t ask what is wrong with something. You ask what’s right with it.” That is something that swirls through my head on a […]
Spring Has Sprung
GREAT Monday morning, ladies and gentlemen! The past has passed. And unless it’s name is, Michael Jordan or Brett Favre, it’s not coming back. ** Yes. Just like retro Nikes, the flatop and box fade, tight clothes, and Marvel comics, both Jordan and Favre will come back… again…. again, a[nother]gain(?)** After a meeting of the minds, Jordan contemplates […]
Be A Better Someone
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! I read a quote this morning from Coco Chanel. “How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.” There’s an ironic truth to this. All of our lives we are “taught” to become something. We practice to become better athletes; basketball, football, lacrosse, […]
Where You Are Now
GREAT Monday morning, ladies and gentlemen!! Just for a minute, pause. Be as quiet and still as you possibly can. Look around you, and recognize all that is right. You’re at a computer, or on a smart-phone. You’re at a desk, or in a car. You’re at work or school. You’re healthy. And even if […]
Live Like It
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! Happy Friday! From, Kid President’s Letter To A Person on Their First Day Here “There’s plenty of reasons to dance. You just gotta look for them. Don’t worry. You won’t be doing this alone.” “Just treat everyone like it’s their birthday, even if they don’t deserve it. Because we all […]
Willing To Prepare
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! “God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but He expects us to do the baking.” – William Arthur Ward Every day we wake up, we have ingredients to make of the day what we want. And depending on what it is that we want, that task could be […]
Demand Of Yourself
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! There’s a reason that I address my students as ladies and gentlemen. I believe that there’s real power in words, and as an educator – and as a man – I feel a responsibility to impress upon young people that they are, in fact, more than boys and girls. They’re […]
Not Just When You’re Knocked Down
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! And happy Friday! Any athlete, or socialete (as I call them) knows that as we age, our recovery time gets longer and longer. We know (fool ourselves into believing?) that we can play the same way we used to. But we also know that our bodies will not handle the next day the same way they handled […]
Too Legit To Quit
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! It’s (throwback) Thursday. The majority of the work/school/business week is behind us, and some of us are already looking toward the weekend. Heck, some of us may feel like the weekend is staring at us – smiling and taunting! We’re ready to forget about the tests, tough practices, annoying co-workers, […]
The Soundtrack for Life
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! This morning, I woke up with music on the brain. Song after song after song, bouncing through my head. That led me to YouTube to watch the some of the videos that were attached to these songs. And after watching a few classic music videos, a question came to mind. […]