Jamy Bechler

Providing Insights on Leadership and Success. Coach Bechler is a John Maxwell Leadership Team Member.

Failing Like Thomas Edison

“Many of life’s failures are people who didn’t realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” (Thomas Edison)

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.

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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…

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13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do

“Tough times don’t last but tough people do.” (Robert Schuller)

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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.

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The Coach’s Bulletin Board

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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.

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Persuading Others

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.”

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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.
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Though it is important for us to champion a cause, we also must realize that there are 2️⃣ parts to this quote!

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Oh?!?

“The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion it has taken place.” (George Bernard Shaw)

A man and his wife had been arguing all night, and as bedtime approached neither was speaking to the other.

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It was not unusual for the pair to continue this war of silence for two or three days. However, on this occasion the man was concerned; he needed to be awake at 4:30am the next morning to catch an important flight and being a very heavy sleeper, he normally relied on his wife to wake him.

Cleverly (so he thought), while his wife was in the bathroom, he wrote on a piece of paper: “Please wake me at 4:30am – I have an important flight to catch.”

He put the note on his wife’s pillow, then turned over and went to sleep.

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Motivational Minute: Burn the Boats

​“Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.” (Jim Rohn)

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After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some far away country, it’s been said that the sixteen-century Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes would immediately burn his own boats.

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The Skinny Mirror

“Your life doesn’t get better by chance, it gets better by change.” (Jim Rohn)

One of my favorite shows is the Emmy Award-winning show “Shark Tank”.

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Aspiring entrepreneurs make presentations to a panel of five rich and successful business people who decide whether to invest in the product.

One memorable episode was when the rich investors were pitched an idea called “The Skinny Mirror”.

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Episode 184: Brandon T. Adams, Emmy Award Winning Producer

Brandon T. Adams is an Emmy® Award-Winning Producer and Host of the TV Series Success in Your City. He is a Podcaster, Speaker, Inventor, Advisor, Crowdfunding Expert, and Media Expert. Brandon is a serial entrepreneur, owning a stake in a number of businesses, including the Accelerant Media Group, Live to Grind, Young Entrepreneur Convention, Success in Your City, and more. He has partnered closely with two former “Success is a Choice” podcast guests, Kevin Harrington (021) and Jeff Hoffman (174).

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In today’s episode, we discuss:
  • Doing a reality show with his fiance
  • What success means
  • Producing an Emmy award-winning show
  • The book “Think and Grow Rich”
  • … and much more!!!

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Episode 183: Pro Golfer Erik Barnes

Today’s guest is Erik Barnes, a professional golfer on the Korn Ferry Tour. At the time of this interview in April 2022, he was ranked 13th and had four top-10 finishes in his last eight events. He gained fame during the pandemic when he took a full-time job working at a Publix grocery store near his home in Bradenton, Florida. He is originally from Marion, Indiana, and attended college at Austin Peay State University.

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From Publix to the PGA Tour? (Forbes Article)

In today’s episode, we discuss:

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Dead Right

One day when I was in high school, I was walking down the sidewalk with my mother. 

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We needed to get to the other side of the street but since I was a punk teenager, I decided to cross sooner because figured I could make it before the next car went by. 

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