Providing Insights on Leadership and Success. Coach Bechler is a John Maxwell Leadership Team Member.
Good enough is sometimes not good enough.
Today, we should be aware of times when we accept mediocrity . . . when we accept less than our best.
Sometimes we take the easy way out.
Sir Isaac Newton had three laws of motion and the first law essentially said that every object will remain at rest until acted upon by an outside force.
Things don’t change by themselves.
This is an important concept to remember today.
An old Cherokee Indian chief sat down to teach his grandson about life.
“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.”
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.
​“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.
Today is Monday. Yikes!
Nothing like a case of the Mondays to get us down.
Most choices that we have in life are simple.
Knowing the right thing to do is not the hard part rather choosing to do the right thing is the difficult part.
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Jake Thompson is the Founder & Chief Encouragement Officer at the global lifestyle brand Compete Every Day. He is a speaker, writer, & active participant in life. Prior to launching CED, Jake spent years in both the sports representation industry & later, as a creative & strategic marketing consultant. Now, he is focused on utilizing his passion for changing lives to remind all that their life is worth competing for. For Jake everyday is a competition against pride, comfort zone, fear, complacency, snooze alarms, bad habits and bad relations. Jake teaches people through speaking podcast and popular apparel brand to compete everyday.