Be A Better Someone

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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

Chazz Woodson - Words of Wisdom

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

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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

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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

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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

Chazz Woodson - Words of Wisdom

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

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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

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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. […]

Don’t Limit Opportunity

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! This morning, I spent time looking at a math problem that someone posted on Facebook. It was a “new” method of solving what was a very simple equation for probably most people above 3rd grade. As I looked at this method, I couldn’t help but think, “OK, I’ve seen some […]

Just A Flesh Wound

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GREAT Monday morning, ladies and gentlemen! One of my favorite characters of all time is the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. “Why” you ask? Because he’s unbelievably confident and unrelenting. In an effort to deny King Arthur access to the bridge he needs to cross, the knight ends up in a sword fight in which he […]

Having Something Special

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! Happy Friday! If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.” – Jim Valvano There are a lot of days that exhaust us. But how often do we seek […]

Keep Running

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! I overslept. And there was nobody on the planet that could have been as angry at the moment as I was. I had nobody to blame but myself. It wasn’t the first time I’d overslept. But it was the morning we were flying from Providence to DC, to scrimmage Georgetown and Johns […]