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Being a Finisher

Nothing quite matches the excitement of Day One of training camp. Seeing old faces, learning new ones, getting ready for all the challenges, facing the unknown … it sounds a lot like New Year’s Eve, just without the bad driving. It’s got more buzz than Kourtney Kardashian’s pregnancy. Only one thing takes away from the […]

No Excuses

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” ~ George Washington Carver With the NHL and NBA teams battling it out in their respective playoffs, a great postseason story comes to mind: Colorado’s run to the 2001 Stanley Cup. Winning any title is hard enough, but the Avalanche […]

Life is a Skill Game

“Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one’s financial success is due one’s technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.” — Dale Carnegie  How much of life is skill and how much is something else? It’s an important question […]

Three Powerful Words

“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.” — William James A childhood game can instantly improve your chances of reaching your goals. Melissa Johnson writes about it in Saturday’s New York Times, recalling Harvard’s epic upset of Stanford in the 1998 NCAA women’s basketball tournament. Johnson profiles Kathy Delaney-Smith, who […]

How to Become a Genius

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together (make) genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart As I write and post these words, it is the last several minutes of Albert Einstein’s birthday. He was born on March 14, 1879. As great as Einstein’s achievements […]

Ready to Compete

“The best place to start is at the beginning.” — The good witch, Wizard of Oz What would you think if you were getting on an airplane and you overheard the pilot remark, “It usually takes me a couple of hundred miles to warm up and get to the top of my game?” How would […]