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Jul 19 2016

VIDEO: Maximize Opportunities

Whether you are part of a team, business or family, you can improve your locker room, board room or living room.  
Do you want to improve?  Do you want to maximize your opportunities?
Success is a choice.  What choice will you make today? 
Thank you to Coach Micheal Burt and Bruce Lund for graciously allowing me to make this video from Murfreesboro, Tennessee headquarters of Micheal Burt Enterprises, The Greatness Factory.

  
Jamy Bechler was a college basketball coach for nearly 20 years and is now a certified John Maxwell leadership coach, speaker and trainer.  You can contact him at Jamy@CoachBechler.com.  You can also subscribe to his leadership newsletter by clicking here.

Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Personal Growth, Sports · Tagged: Bruce Lund, Coachable, Improvement, Micheal Burt, Success is a Choice, The Greatness Factory

Jul 04 2016

Prepare to Win

(Originally written on July 1, 2016)

July is here. That means one month left until the start of official practices for many athletes. How will you spend this month? Will you be prepared when October and November asks you to pay up for what you did in June and July? 

Bobby Knight used to say “Failing to prepare is preparing to fail”.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Personal Growth, Sports, Teams & Organizations · Tagged: Attitude, Bobby Knight, Michael Jordan, Preparation, Success is a Choice, Training

Dec 20 2013

Dave Ramsey’s Cookie Cutter Answers Taste Good

(originally published on December 19, 2013)

Today I read an article by a financial “expert” saying that people should not listen to Dave Ramsey and his financial advice because people’s lives are too complex and important to be boiled down into short cookie cutter answers or platitudes.  Unfortunately, many other financial analysts have also had problems with his method of advising people on how to be financially successful.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Personal Growth · Tagged: Common Sense, Dave Ramsey, Discipline, Financial Advice, Financial Peace, Habits, Larry Winget, Money, Success is a Choice, The Total Money Makeover

Jun 06 2013

Success Is A Choice

“Success is a Choice” … I first heard this phrase when Rick Pitino wrote a book that had this as the title.  It is one of the best quotes I have heard.   In fact, I have borrowed it as the primary motto for my basketball program over the years.  It goes on all of our letterhead, locker room posters and motivational pieces.  In general, every person has the choice of how they act and behave.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership · Tagged: Attitude, Charles Swindoll, Choices, Denny Lehnus, Gary Waters, Leadership, Rick Pitino, Success, Success is a Choice

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