Providing Insights on Leadership and Success. Coach Bechler is a John Maxwell Leadership Team Member.
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!
I woke up this morning running late and the last thing I wanted to do was take 30-seconds to make my bed.
Maybe you’ve been right there with me struggling between listening to that pesky little bed-making devil on one shoulder and that cleanliness-is-next-to-godliness angel on the other shoulder.
After all, that bed is just going to get messed up again that night, anyway, who will ever see it?
Chip Baker is an author, and host of YouTube channel “Chip Baker – The Success Chronicles”, where he has interviewed hundreds of people to share their message with the world. Chip has also worked over 20 years as an educator and football coach. His newest book is The Impact of Influence.
Since the Tragic shooting in Michigan on November 30th that took the lives of four Oxford HS students and injured 7 others, political opportunists have wasted little time weaponizing the situation and crafting their talking points.
But my thoughts today aren’t about politics.
My thoughts on the Oxford tragedy aren’t about who’s right, who’s wrong, who’s to blame, or even how this could have ever happened in the first place.
“I’m the greatest baseball player in the world,” a little boy boasted as he strutted around his backyard.
Shouldering his bat, he tossed a baseball up, swung, and missed.
“I am the greatest ballplayer ever,” he reiterated. He picked up the ball again, swung, and missed again. Stopping a moment to examine his bat, he stooped down and picked up his ball.
“I am the greatest baseball player who ever lived!” The momentum of his swing nearly knocked him down. But the ball plopped, unscathed, at his feet.
“Wow!” he exclaimed. “What a pitcher!”
Bill Curry has been the head football coach at Alabama, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, and Georgia State. He was a 2x SEC Coach of the Year, ACC Coach of the Year, as well as the National Coach of the Year in 1989 for the Alabama Crimson Tide. Before embarking upon a coaching career, he played 10 years in the NFL as a Center. He played in Super Bowls I, III, and V, winning two Super Bowl rings with the Packers and the Colts.
Click here to read Coach Curry’s complete resume and biography.
You can find out more about Coach Bill Curry, his motivational speaking opportunities, and his book “Ten Men You Meet In The Huddle” by visiting www.BillCurry.net.
Mark Twain said it best when he stated that “Kindness is a gift that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
Ellen Degeneres came under fire when she was caught on camera at a nationally televised Dallas Cowboys game sitting next to former U.S. President George Bush. It seems that some people are so angry and disagreeable that they think everyone else should be also.
It got so bad that Ellen had to address it on her show the next day.
Gandhi once said that “an eye for an eye makes the world world blind.” 18-year old Brandt Jean applied this principle in his life when he made headlines for what he did in a Dallas courtroom in October of 2019.
After Amber Guyger was sentenced in the 2018 murder of Brandt’s brother Botham, he said that he forgave her and asked the judge if he could give her a hug.
From 1923-1930, Bobby Jones won 13 major championships in golf. His record was unmatched until 1973 when it was finally broken by Jack Nicklaus. One time, in a championship match that he was playing in, Jones drove the ball into the woods. As he was looking for the ball, he accidentally nudged it. Although no one saw him move the ball, he penalized himself one stroke (according to the rules), which caused him to lose the match by that margin. Afterward, when reporters praised him for his integrity, he responded that they might as well praise him and congratulate him for not robbing a bank.