Providing Insights on Leadership and Success. Coach Bechler is a John Maxwell Leadership Team Member.
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.
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…
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.
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!
A man and his wife had been arguing all night, and as bedtime approached neither was speaking to the other.
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.
“Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.” (Jim Rohn)
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.
One of my favorite shows is the Emmy Award-winning show “Shark Tank”.
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”.