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Restart Better
Next time you find yourself saying you're going to "restart" something I encourage you to take a minute to think deeply about why you're needing to restart. Why did you stop? Why do you need to do this thing? What is your burning desire to see it through? What are you...
Transforming Chaos to Synergy
I walk through my door after a long day at work hoping for a reprieve from the day's stress. My hope is instantly crushed with wailing from my children causing immediate fight or flight mode. I pull them apart from pummeling each other and as calm and composed as I...
Don’t Pick Your Scabs
Scabs cover wounds to allow healing. When we pick at scabs we slow healing and promote infection and scarring. Wounds are a result of an accident or failure to do something correctly. Scabs and healing allow us to have accidents and do things incorrectly so that we...
Hang Toilet Paper Over or Under?
When you replace the toilet paper are you supposed to have the end of the roll hanging from the front of the roll or back of the roll? And maybe more importantly does it matter? For me, yes. I can't stand when the end of the toilet paper is hanging from the back....
How I Write So Much
When I first started writing a daily (Monday - Friday) email they were just short of terrible (not that they're works of art now either). Further, when I first started I also stopped. My first go didn't last long. Nor did the second go. Like many things in life I...
Ironic, Don’t You Think?
My dad drove me forty-five minutes one-way to wrestling practice Monday through Friday nearly year-round. (thanks dad) We listened to the same radio station as I chowed down some form of sustenance between school and practice for my dinner. (thanks mom for prepping)...
The Long Way and the Short Way
My son, Drake, who is 6, went on a hike with me this weekend. As we were bushwacking our way through thick vegetation two to three times as tall as him he... - Was having fun until I gave him a lesson on watching for wild animals resting in the thicket. - Was walking...
Least Favorite to Most Memorable
I wanted to quit. Playing Division I football is no picnic, let alone as a walk-on, unless of course... ... your picnic is infested with a swarm of African army ants... ...the sky is pelting you with softball-sized hale... ...and you have to trudge through miles and...
More Bells and Whistles
5:45 this morning I get a call from Sarah, one of our coaches... "The computer was not working when I got in this morning. I restarted it and now the video demo is working with one small problem...there's no sound..." As I'm sure you've experienced, technology can be...