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Oct 30 2022

Motivational Minute: The Wolves

 

An old Cherokee Indian chief sat down to teach his grandson about life.

🔊 Please click here to listen to the 1-minute audio version of this article from the Success is a Choice podcast network.

“There’s a fight going on inside me,” he tells the young boy, “a fight between two wolves.”

“One wolf is evil. It’s full of malice, anger, greed, self-pity, and false pride. The other is good. It’s full of peace, love, joy, kindness, and humility.”

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast Episodes · Tagged: Charles Swindoll, Cherokee Indian, Fail Forward, Feed the dog, Feed the good wolf, Good attitude, Habits, Life Lesson, Little Things, Make your bed, Monday, Monday Motivation, Motivation, Motivational Minute, Overcoming Adversity, Positive leadership, positivity, Success is a Choice, Win the Day, wolves, Yogi Berra

Oct 26 2022

Episode 174: Jeff Hoffman (Global CEO, Entrepreneur, and Philanthropist)

Jeff Hoffman is an award-winning global entrepreneur, proven CEO, worldwide motivational speaker, bestselling author, Hollywood film producer, producer of a Grammy Award-winning jazz album, and executive producer of an Emmy Award-winning television show. Jeff has been part of a number of well-known successful startups, including Priceline.com, Booking.com, uBid.com, and more. Jeff is the CEO of Driving Force Enterprises, a strategic consulting firm that teaches exponential growth to business owners and entrepreneurs, as well as teaching innovation strategies to corporations and governments worldwide.

Click here for Jeff’s complete bio

In today’s episode, we discuss:
  • William Shatner becoming the face of Priceline
  • How to build a strong team
  • Making the world better – with or without money
  • Using a whiteboard to build culture
  • … and much more!!!

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Business, Leadership, Podcast Episodes · Tagged: Brad Lea, Brandon T. Adams, Culture Matters, Culture of Good, Dropping Bombs, entrepreneur, Giving, Hiring, Hiring Process, Jeff Hoffman, Kevin Harrington, Micheal Burt, Millionnaire, Philanthropy, Priceline, Ray Lewis, Shark Tank, team building, UBid, Whiteboard

Oct 12 2022

Episode 171: Dr. Richard Johnson, Texas Public Policy Foundation

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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In today’s episode, we discuss:
  • Educating today’s youth
  • The importance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Thoughts on race
  • Beating Hall of Famer David Robinson in a basketball game
  • … and much more!!!

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast Episodes · Tagged: BLM, Booker T. Washington, Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Education, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, houston, Jr., Martin Luther King, MLK, politics, Race Relations, Racial Issues, Richard Johnson, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Wiley College

Sep 20 2022

The Coachable Coach: Tom Shaw

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.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Podcast Episodes, Sports, Teams & Organizations · Tagged: Abilene Christian, ACU, Building Relationships, Coachable Coach, College Athletics, connecting, Culture Matters, Developing Students, Golf Coach, Golfing, Leadership, NCAA, PGA, student leadership, team building, Tom Shaw

Sep 19 2022

Case of The Mondays

“Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.” (Ken Poirot)

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.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast Episodes · Tagged: Abraham Lincoln, Bechler Family, Beth Bechler, Example, Frank Bechler, Hard Work, Holiday, Industriousness, Instill Values, Labor Day, Mackinaw Bridge, Martin Luther King, Maximize potential, MLK, Mr. Frank, role model, Work Ethic

Aug 30 2022

Leaders Growing Leaders: Mike McGurk

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.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Podcast Episodes, Sports, Teams & Organizations · Tagged: Athletic Director, Culture, high school athletics, Leaders Developing Leaders, leaders growing leaders, Leadership Development, Lee's Summit North, MIAAA, Missouri athletics, NIAAA, Podcast, Team Captains, The Leadership Playbook

Aug 29 2022

Telling the Same Joke

“Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.” (Teddy Roosevelt)

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.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast Episodes · Tagged: Attitude, complaining, Gandhi, Insights, Jokes, Motivational Minute, Moving Forward, Positive leadership, Problem Solving, solutions, Teddy Roosevelt, Wisdom

Aug 04 2022

The Greatest Champion

photo credit: Nonstop Sports (YouTube)

“Bill Russell was the greatest champion in all of team sports.” (Adam Silver, NBA Commissioner)

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.

Click here to listen to the 6-minute version of this article on the “Success is a Choice” podcast network.

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.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Podcast Episodes, Sports, Teams & Organizations · Tagged: Adam Silver, Bill Russell, Boston Celtics, champion, Championships, Hard Work, Jackie Robinson, John Wooden, kareem abdul-jabbar, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Legacy, mental toughness, mentality, MLK, Most Valuable Player, Motivational Quotes, NBA, NCAA, Olympics, Racial Issues, rebounding, Red Auerbach, San Francisco, Social Justic, Teamwork, Tim Duncan, Win the Day, winning

Aug 02 2022

The Football Coach’s Words

“A coach will impact more young people in one year than the average person will do in an entire lifetime.” (Billy Graham)
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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.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast Episodes, Sports, Teams & Organizations · Tagged: Be the change, Bill Dunn, Billy Graham, Coaching Impact, Developing Students, Football Coach, Greg Morrison, impact, Impacting students, Jonesville Comets, Jonesville High School, Person of Influence

Jul 26 2022

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.

Click here to listen to the 1-minute version of this article on the “Success is a Choice” podcast network.

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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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast Episodes · Tagged: Abraham Lincoln, Adversity, Failure, Frank Bechler, Inventions, Lightbulbs, Mr. Frank, Overcoming Challenges, Patents, Perseverance, Persistence, Science, Shark Tank, Success, Thomas Edison

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