On Sunday morning about 7 AM, I was in the middle of a run. It was a quiet, beautiful fall morning until I looped back around and through the sports and water park complex near my house. Cars started driving by and turning into the parking lot by the tennis center. I could hear an abundance of tennis balls popping off rackets as ,what seemed to be, many people warming up. I’ve run by on other Sunday mornings about this time to see what couldn’t be older than five and six year olds warming up for soccer matches. The mini
My husband has suddenly become glued to watching The Voice on NBC. I have no idea why. He can’t carry a tune and he is, in general, not a music buff. For some reason, though, he finds this show extremely entertaining. Different from it’s rival show American Idol, The Voice features singers who all have some type of musical talent. They aren’t any folks off the street trying to get camera attention. Because he was watching it (yes, even over Monday Night Football) on Monday, I sat down to tune in for a minute. On this episode, a 17 year
My almost three year old has just learned to ask the question, “Why?” He loves it, and uses it ALL the time. For example, I’ll say, “Don’t climb on that.” “Why?” He asks as he continues to do it. Or he says, “Mommy, where is the moon?” “In the sky,” I’ll say. “Why?” he asks. “Because it’s in space.” “Why?” he asks again. It can go on forever, and quite often I have no idea how to answer his “Why?” I think too often we neglect to ask “Why?” when it comes to evaluating employee performance or any other talent
If you want to be able to actually live by your mission everyday, then you need to create a list of at least three questions to askyourself daily. For example, if your mission is to become a best-selling author, what do you think would be some questions that you would need to ask yourself daily? The most obvious one would probably be: Did I write today? Others may be, Did I read something new today? (Good writers are always avid readers, at least in my opinion). After you have something written you want published, one of your questions may be, Did I reach out to
I’ll admit, after writing about leadership lessons gleaned from Nick Saban and college football over the last several weeks, even I’m beginning to tire about all the hype over the man. As Warren St. John points out in his GQ article on Saban, many people associate him with the devil. (Note: Even if you don’t like football, read St. John’s article, he is a fabulous writer.) Love him or hate him (in the sake of full disclosure, we love him at our house), one thing I got out of St. John’s article, among many is that Saban has a better half. “Ms. Terry”. St. John writes, “The role of