Providing Insights on Leadership and Success. Coach Bechler is a John Maxwell Leadership Team Member.
Richard A. Johnson, Ed.D., is the director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Booker T. Washington Initiative which examines the effects of public policy on African-American communities.
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I love Mondays!
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Not only is it great to see any day of the week because that means I’m alive, but it’s also a chance to have a fresh start. It’s a chance to set a new tone for the rest of the week. [Read more…]
The story is told of a farmer who grabbed his shotgun to shoot at a flock of pesky crows. Unfortunately, he didn’t see that the family’s sociable pet parrot had joined the flock of crows.
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After firing a few shots, he walked over to the fallen birds and was surprised to find the family parrot had been one of the casualties. The farmer’s children had heard the noise and came running. When they saw the parrot, they asked their father what had happened.
The farmer simply replied, “Bad Company.” [Read more…]
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.
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.
Do you happen to have a case of the Monday’s?
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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.
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.
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.