Providing Insights on Leadership and Success. Coach Bechler is a John Maxwell Leadership Team Member.
Today is Monday. Yikes!
Nothing like a case of the Mondays to get us down.
Retired Army staff sergeant Joey Jones lost both of his legs when an IED exploded in Afghanistan.
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.
The 2021 Tokyo Olympics are just around the corner and athletes everywhere are seeing the rewards and fruit of their years of sacrifice and hard work.
This is especially true in the individual sports – gymnastics, swimming and diving, and track and field come to mind immediately. As Americans, Track and field is a sport that has long held our fascination.
We love powerful athletes. We love fast athletes. We love the fact that the best can be measured by objective means.
There are no playing time issues. If you think you are better than someone else, then this can be proven by throwing farther, jumping higher, or running faster.
That is why what happened in the hammer throw competition at the U.S. Track and Field Trials is so awesome and so impressive.
DeAnna Price set an American record with her throw, which also happened to be the second-best in history.
Tom Brady dismantled the defending champs and Vegas favorites in Super Bowl 55 to become a seven-time champion. Even though he is my guy, I am afraid I picked the Kansas City Chiefs to repeat and defeat Brady’s Buccaneers.
He had no idea I had picked against him, nor would he have cared.
However, he is no stranger to doubters.
It definitely is strange to see so many haters, doubters, and critics of Tom Brady when he is essentially the unquestioned GOAT – greatest of all time.
We as adults definitely don’t deal with doubters and haters as well as we should sometimes, so there is no question that our athletes will struggle with it.
Since the GOAT has haters, we all will have haters and those who doubt us.
I don’t remember the context but the other day I told my mother-in-law that “Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit but wisdom is knowing not to put it into a fruit salad.” She then proceeded to find a magnet that had that saying on it. It is on our refrigerator at home. Hopefully she just thought it was a neat saying and wasn’t trying to tell me something – but, I digress. [Read more…]
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.
As a college student, I spent my summers as a life guard and camp counselor. During the weekends, the camp director would take the staff for boat rides around the lake. It seemed like every five minutes, he said, “See that turtle over there” or “Look at that turtle sunny itself on that log”. I don’t think I saw a turtle before he saw it at any point during that entire summer. Funny thing is that I also never saw a turtle on my own when I went out on the boat out without him.
Jon Gordon is a best-selling author, motivational coach and motivational speaker. His books and talks have inspired readers and audiences around the world. His principles have been put to the test by numerous Fortune 500 companies, professional and college sports teams, school districts, hospitals, and non-profits. He is the author of 16 books including six best-sellers: “The Energy Bus,” “The Carpenter,” “Training Camp,” “You Win in the Locker Room First,” “The Power of Positive Leadership,” and “The Power of a Positive Team.” Jon and his tips have been featured on The Today Show, CNN, CNBC, The Golf Channel, Fox and Friends and in numerous magazines and newspapers. His clients include The Los Angeles Dodgers, The Atlanta Falcons, Campbell Soup, Dell, Publix, Southwest Airlines, LA Rams, Miami Heat, Pittsburgh Pirates, BB&T Bank, Clemson Football, Northwestern Mutual, Bayer, West Point Academy, and more.
Michael Catt is the pastor of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, GA, which has a congregation of more than 3,000 people. His church has produced major films such as “Facing the Giants”, “Courageous”, and “Fireproof”. Michael also served as the Executive Producer of “Woodlawn”, a film by the Erwin Brothers about the impact of the Jesus Movement on an Alabama high school football team in the 1970s. Pastor Catt has authored 12 books including the Love Dare Curriculum and Fireproof Your Life. He is also the founder of the nationally renowned ReFresh conference.
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