Providing Insights on Leadership and Success. Coach Bechler is a John Maxwell Leadership Team Member.
A wise man once faced a group of people who were complaining about the same issues over and over again.
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One day, instead of listening to the complaints, he told them a joke, and everyone cracked up laughing.
When the great baseball Hall of Famer and African American icon Jackie Robinson died in 1972, his widow called Boston Celtics player Bill Russell and asked him to be a pallbearer at her husband’s funeral.
When asked why, she responded that Russell had been Jackie Robinson’s favorite athlete.
All of the pallbearers were Jackie’s former teammates with the Brooklyn Dodgers, except for Bill Russell.
It’s likely that Bill Russell was Jackie Robinson’s favorite athlete – not because he was so athletic or talented – but because he was a champion, both on and off the playing court.
Many consider Bill Russell one of the greatest teammates of all time.
My small Michigan high school had a great deal of success on both the gridiron and the hard courts.
Jonesville High School had some really good athletes that played both sports but we also had two great head coaches … Bill Dunn in basketball and Greg Morrison in football.
Because my mother wouldn’t allow me to play football … why mom why?!?😀 … I was one of the few players on my high school basketball team that didn’t also play football.
Many of us know Thomas Edison as the inventor of the lightbulb, but he invented many other things.
In fact, he received more than 1,000 patents during his lifetime. He was quite a prolific inventor.
I must admit that I wasn’t very good at science when I was young and don’t know a lot about technology or electricity. My dad could make anything work but the same couldn’t be said for me.
I’m glad there was someone like Edison to invent all this stuff but I have a hard time relating to his inventing prowess.
However, I can relate to him in one sense…
Today’s guest on the “LEADERS GROWING LEADERS” series is Mike Ellson, athletic ambassador for Christ Presbyterian School in Nashville, Tennessee.
During the “Leaders Growing Leaders” series on the Success is a Choice Podcast Network, Jamy Bechler talks with leaders about how they are growing and developing other leaders.
The series tries to examine how various leaders are making the people around them better and building a stronger, healthier culture.
Amy Morin was a newly married 23-year-old therapist. Suddenly, her mother died due to a brain aneurysm.
On the three-year anniversary of her mother’s death, her husband died of a heart attack.
When she remarried years later, her second husband’s father died of cancer.
Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening to you whenever you’re reading this. Where I’m at it’s a good day … with an emphasis on the GOOD because today we’re announcing our new book.
For years people have been asking us to put together a collection of some of our best thoughts, ideas, insights, and quotes. Well, we’ve finally listened and today are announcing that we’ll be releasing “The Coach’s Bulletin Board” in early September.
Today’s guest on the “LEADERS GROWING LEADERS” series is John Sgromolo, the Coordinator of Athletics for all of Clay County Schools in Florida.
During the “Leaders Growing Leaders” series on the Success is a Choice Podcast Network, Jamy Bechler talks with leaders about how they are growing and developing other leaders.
The series tries to examine how various leaders are making the people around them better and building a stronger, healthier culture.
Former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg used to say “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
Through the years, I have seen this quote posted on social media and referred to quite often. Most of the time, it is used as motivation or justification for fighting for a cause.
Though it is important for us to champion a cause, we also must realize that there are 2️⃣ parts to this quote!
Today’s guest on “The Coachable Coach” series is Dennis Stanton, the athletic director at Souderton HS.
“The Coachable Coach” series on the Success is a Choice Podcast Network goes beyond the X’s and O’s as Jamy Bechler talks with some of the best sports coaches.