Are You Checking Your Sunshine or Your Shoeshine?
I previously did another blog post and podcast about some of the philosophies of the legendary football coach of the Green Bay Packers in the 1960’s, Vice Lombardi. There is a series entitled “A Football Life” on the NFL network on cable television. In part one, in an episode…
Podcast: What is Your Professional Altitude?
EPISODE 153 I recently did a podcast interview with Andrea Biwer and Marne Diethorn from the Veteran’s Back to Work Boot Camp in Des Plaines, Illinois (Episode 151). During the interview, Marne Deithorn, who is Vice President of Human Resources of Rivers Casino in Des Plaines, Illinois said this with respect…
Volleyball Pencils and Outliers
Let me tell you another true story. The health club I belong to has an elite junior volleyball program for middle school and high school students. According to their web-site, the program has had 250+ athletes who went on to play volleyball in college. Their…
How Well Do You Handle Rejection?
There is a dog named Dotty, a Dalmatian mix, that lived at the Hilbrae Rescue Kennels in the UK. According to Anna Gragert at My Modern Met, Dotty was viewed over 10,000 times for adoption over a six-year period. Not a single person wanted to adopt Dotty. Not one….
Podcast: Be Quick But Don’t Hurry
Episode 133 The late John Wooden (b. 1910, d. 2010) was an American basketball coach at UCLA and was nicknamed the “Wizard of Westwood.” UCLA is in the Westwood area of Los Angeles. Coach Wooden won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships in a 12-year period as head coach for the UCLA Bruins,…
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