The next time you think the odds are against you, this video can lend some perspective.
It shows little boys who lived in a village built on stilts in water. They wanted to learn about soccer, but had no place to play. So they built a raft to use as a field!
They turned every disadvantage into [...]
Too often, silly laziness winds up costing me time, effort and even money.
Yesterday I was home looking for a pen. I checked the drawer, but saw only a pile of old crayons, markers and pencils. After moving one or two of them without finding anything, I wandered around the house in a futile search.
Finally I [...]
A few summers ago, my daughter and I were headed for an open-air concert.
We had tickets on the lawn, while much of the crowd — and the band — would be under shelter.
That meant that the show would go on, despite the wind, rain, thunder and lightning.
We could barely see as we drove. We [...]
For parents, few things rival the thrill of baby’s first step. The proud mom and dad eagerly await the event. They’re ready with the video cam. They call their friends to tell them the news.
No wonder! Taking that first step is a huge moment for any baby. It separates the past from the future, and [...]
Over the weekend, my family went for dessert at Holsten’s, the ice cream parlor where they filmed the final episode of “The Sopranos.”
It was my first trip there since the series ended, and, upon walking in, I asked the waitress, “Where was Tony?”
There were no more words needed. She knew that I was asking “Where [...]
Two teams work in the same office. You are allowed to spend as much time as you want observing them. Then you must choose: Which one will be more successful?
That question more and more is drawing the attention of businesses. In this Harvard Business Review article, researcher Sandy Pentland concludes that patterns of communication mean [...]
Today I heard a woman say with some pride that she “can do 12 things at once.”
She also said, with not as much pride, that her daughter can only do one thing at a time.
Only?
By being able to do “only” one thing at a time, her daughter owns the key to success. Doing “only” one [...]
Sport columnist Joel Sherman makes the key point about Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera.
Writing in The New York Post after Rivera tore his ACL in a freak pre-game accident, Sherman says the relief pitcher is more than just a baseball player. He is the embodiment of greatness, not in the cheap, hero-a-day way so common today, [...]
If you’re trying to improve at something, remember these words: It doesn’t matter if you’re doing things right if you’re not doing the right things.
It reminds me of the best parking job I ever did. Late for practice, I gained a few precious seconds by slipping gracefully into the parking space and racing into the [...]
My friend Gary Pritchard, whose coaching specialty is helping build unity on teams, sent this quote from Charles Dickens today.
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
Those words capture so much of what coaching should be about. The job of a leader is more than just giving orders or creating [...]