Providing Insights on Leadership and Success. Coach Bechler is a John Maxwell Leadership Team Member.
After 12 hours of peeling potatoes for KP duty, an Army private returned to his barracks bone-tired and exhausted.
As he collapsed on his bed, he noticed a letter from his girlfriend on his pillow.
The “Success is a Choice” podcasting network has partnered with TeePublic to offer merchandise related to leadership, teamwork, culture, life, and success. The partnership includes the podcasting network, Jamy Bechler’s leadership consulting, and his books.
Once upon a time in a small Italian town, a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable.
She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed like life was one problem after the next.
The next day her father, who was a chef, took her to the kitchen. He boiled three pots of water. He placed potatoes in one, eggs in another, and ground coffee beans in the third.
Of course, the daughter waited impatiently, wondering what he was doing.
Today’s guest on “The Coachable Coach” series is Tom Shaw, the men’s golf coach at Abilene Christian University.
“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.
Do you happen to have a case of the Monday’s?
Click here to listen to the 1-minute version of this article.
Does someone around you have a case of the Mondays?
I hope not.
A lighthouse keeper received a new supply of oil once a month to keep the light burning.
Not being far from shore, he had frequent guests.
While taking hundreds of flights throughout my life only once has my luggage gotten lost and that was on my honeymoon (fortunately, it wasn’t a sign of things to come)!
The second time occurred when traveling to speak at some high schools.
After speaking at a prestigious prep school in the Washington D.C. area, I was traveling to Charlotte, NC to speak at a large high school in that city.
Today’s guest on the “LEADERS GROWING LEADERS” series is Mike McGurk, athletic director at Lee’s Summit North HS in Missouri and President of the NIAAA.
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.
A wise man once faced a group of people who were complaining about the same issues over and over again.
Click here to listen to the 1-minute version of this article.
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.