Better Than I Was Yesterday

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! I’m not sure whether it’s all grandmothers or just some. But the Rev. Clara Woodson has a knack for dropping wisdom without any intent to do so at all. I spoke with her yesterday and she just happened to start explaining the things that she needed to do to get […]

5 Easy Changes

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GREAT Monday morning, ladies and gentlemen! From time to time, it’s worth our while to take inventory of our lives. What do we have stored up? What do we still need in order to get accomplish what we want to accomplish? What’s holding us back? What no longer serves a purpose in our lives? In […]

Committing and Avoiding

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Happy Friday, ladies and gentlemen! Since the start of the month, I’ve been talking about preparing for the new year and setting the wheels in motion now so that we have some momentum heading into the into. It would be rather hypocritical of me to send these messages out each day without putting them into […]

Time Best Used For Preparation

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! It’s not uncommon, moving into the new year for many of us to make resolutions and to decide to change our ways and our habits. A while back, I realized that attempting to change habits, though, is relatively futile. They are habits because we often have years of repetition built […]

Start Your Day Successfully

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! As we prepare for the new year, realize that we don’t have to wait until January 1st to start making changes and building habits that will set us up to accomplish what we want to accomplish in 2014. We can begin that process over the course of the next 20 […]

Two Easy Lists

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and happy Tuesday! 11 Little Signs You’re Doing Just Fine You have food available to eat. There is a nearby faucet with clean water. You take a warm shower at least once a day. You have your own comfortable bed. There’s a roof over your head and walls around you. […]

Physically Commit

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Good morning ladies and gentlemen! As we move into the new year, let’s keep in mind that there’s a balance that should be upheld between physical and mental fitness. While it’s not the case for everyone, and it certainly holds true for some people prior to, I’ve found that once people enter the professional/working world, […]

Execute the Game Plan

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! In the last moments before pre game concludes, part of the focus is on execution. By this point, I’ve already evaluated the last game. I’ve watched film, and in my head I’ve replayed my own performance over and over throughout the week. We’ve had practice, so we’ve already addressed concerns […]

Envisioning Greatness

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Good morning, ladies and gentleman! I’ve had the opportunity to begin a weekly blog for The Giving Athlete, and last night I posted a blog that was essentially the same as yesterday’s Words of Wisdom. I think I did better job of writing and explaining myself, however. If you care to read that version, you may do so here! […]

Four Steps to the Pre-game

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Great Monday morning, ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to December. Hard to believe that we are about to close 2013 out already. When I think of December I compare it to the last few minutes of pregame before kickoff, tipoff, or faceoff. In that last little bit of pregame, I’m not concerned with our team’s record. I’m not […]

Don’t Let It Fade

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Happy Friday, ladies and gentlemen! “None of us can exist in isolation. Our lives and existence are supported by others in seen and unseen ways, be it by parents, mentors or society at large. To be aware of these connections, to feel appreciation for them, and to strive to give something back to society in a […]

If We Have, We Can Give

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and happy Thanksgiving! An idea that has stuck with me for quite some time now, is to give when you can least afford to. I had the opportunity last night to follow through on this principle. And while, admittedly, my first instinct was to say “Not tonight, I cannot afford to […]