As I move through my 83rd year, I often have days where my thoughts are about all the things I haven’t done or done well or didn’t even think about doing. On rare occasions, I have a sense of pride about what I was able to do. The truth is, despite my failures I have [...]
For well over 50 years, I have been working at educating myself and thousands of others. I am clear I have been able to provide most of those others a way to look at life that gives them choices. Then I meet young people who have been educated to be average and ... the real [...]
Talk to the executives of any sports organization and they will tell you they are committed to winning. Bullshit. If this is true why is it that the same teams are always on or near the top? How come certain teams always find that athlete that perfectly fits their need? Or, how does Kevin Durant [...]
In the world of sports and life in general, we seem to be in a great hurry to get on to the next thing. So much so that we are distracted from what is happening right now. You need to live in the now. The “present” is the only place anything is ever happening. Take college [...]
Why is completion important? Our lives are a series of projects; daily, monthly, yearly and, yes, lifetime. The nature of a project is that it has a beginning, middle and end. The project may go through various phases, is naturally ongoing, or needs stepping stones to completion. Ah, completion, the achilles heel for human beings. [...]
The basic values and principles for being human are as viable today as they ever were. Or, are they? Have any new ones been invented? Have we given up on any by convincing ourselves they no longer apply? Have our breakthroughs in technology made any of them no longer applicable to daily living? Maybe, I [...]
Have I failed? These days it seems I feel that way much of the time. Strange that I should feel this way given that for over 50 years I have coached people in a way that has them say that I have made a difference in the quality of their lives. One of the ways, [...]
I have questions. The first question I have is “where are we headed?” We live in a world that basically doesn’t work. We have territorial wars. We have religious wars. We have other ideological conflicts. It sounds like the world in 300 B.C. … so much for technology. We live in a world that is [...]
BLOG #91 APRIL 08, 2010 THE TIGER IS LOOSE Once again Tiger Woods is prowling the fairways at Augusta National. [...]