If we want drum corps this summer and marching band next Fall we need to stay diligent and disciplined. I know it’s been a hard year of shut downs and waiting, but we just need to hang on a couple more months!

If we want drum corps this summer and marching band next Fall we need to stay diligent and disciplined. I know it’s been a hard year of shut downs and waiting, but we just need to hang on a couple more months!

Everyone wants to be successful, and everyone wants their group to improve and place better at competitions. But not everyone is WILLING to do to the work required. There is an important distinction between the desire to succeed and the willingness to do what is necessary.

I have found that as I get older I find that I mince my words less and less.  And I find that clients and colleagues like this.  I don’t know if I’’m just getting cranky as I collect birthdays or if I’m finally getting the confidence to be more bold and direct.  But this usually serves me well.

Yes, that’s a picture of a bunch of weaves pouring out of a discarded Happy Meal box!  I encountered this tableau in the parking lot of a Walgreens in Tampa, FL.  When my companion and I realized what we were seeing, we immediately thought “Something went down here!” 

Our culture teaches us to want to be famous. Many want to have power, or wealth, or influence, or the ego stroke of adulation. These all seem nice, but they are not needed to MAKE AN IMPACT on the world.

Our culture teaches us to want to be famous. Many want to have power, or wealth, or influence, or the ego stroke of adulation. These all seem nice, but they are not needed to MAKE AN IMPACT on the world.

Our culture teaches us to want to be famous. Many want to have power, or wealth, or influence, or the ego stroke of adulation. These all seem nice, but they are not needed to MAKE AN IMPACT on the world.

Our culture teaches us to want to be famous. Many want to have power, or wealth, or influence, or the ego stroke of adulation. These all seem nice, but they are not needed to MAKE AN IMPACT on the world.

What the world needs right now is small acts of kindness. With the craziness and uncertainty around us, with citizens acting in ways that seem frightening or don’t make sense to us, we need to stay centered. Start right where you are, in your own life and your own world.