Providing Insights on Leadership and Success. Coach Bechler is a John Maxwell Leadership Team Member.
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In a 2022 NASCAR race in Phoenix, Joey Logano’s pit crew executed a flawless pit stop late in the race, putting him in the lead.
This crucial moment was the turning point for Logano, as he went on to win the race and clinch his second NASCAR Cup Series Championship.
Today is July 1st meaning it’s essentially the halfway point of the year.
“It is never too late to be who you might have been.” (George Elliot)
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Some of my favorite films are those with Adam Sandler starring in them.
Sometimes I can even latch onto something inspirational amidst the comedy.
One of those is in the movie “The Waterboy” in which Sandler’s character Bobby Boucher plays a manager turned football player.
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.”
After 12 hours of peeling potatoes for KP duty, an Army private returned to his barracks bone-tired and exhausted.
As he collapsed on his bed, he noticed a letter from his girlfriend on his pillow.
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.
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.
One day when I was in high school, I was walking down the sidewalk with my mother.
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.
Today is Monday. Yikes!
Nothing like a case of the Mondays to get us down.