Abraham Lincoln
Deciding to Be Great
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Those words of Abraham Lincoln came to mind last night in the gym as I watched practice. Except I would like to paraphrase the famous president. What if we put it this way:
“Most people are about as skilled as they make up [...]
Are You Great?
Spring has brought the usual array of new baseball books, and one of them should catch the eye of coaches everywhere.
It’s called “The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Genetics, Talent and IQ is Wrong,” by David Shenk.
The content shouldn’t come as any surprise if you’ve read books like “The [...]
Walking the Walk
So the father was lecturing his son.
“When Abraham Lincoln was your age, he was walking eight miles to school,” the father said.
Replied the son, “When Abraham Lincoln was your age, he was president.”
See? Kids can lecture, too.
So it not enough for parents and coaches to talk the talk.
“What you do speaks so loud I cannot [...]
The Power of One
“How bad do you want to be good?” — quoted by Patty Sullivan
Let’s start with a trick question today, the 200th anniversary of the birth of President Lincoln.
Why do we celebrate Lincoln’s birthday?
You’re tempted to say we do it because Lincoln was a great president, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and saw the country through [...]
