Today’s Task - April 19, 2022 I was speaking to a football coach at the gym this morning and he shared that one of his players was just offered a full scholarship at a Division 1 college. Well….kind of. It turns out the player is only a freshman in high school. Oh sure, he has [...]
Today’s Task - April 13, 2022 Today, I have decided to break the routine by sharing something that came in my email today from Tom Bilyeu. It was too good to pass up and a wonderful lesson for you to share with your students. I hope you enjoy it. Once, two young fish were swimming [...]
Today’s Task - April 5, 2022 My son coaches a local AAU basketball team and I hang out and help when I can. At practice the other day he sent a player to me who was having difficulty in school. The young man explained that he had two grades in the 60s. In the one [...]
Today’s Task - March 28, 2022 There is a lot of difference between what we can’t do and what we won’t do. What we won’t do will keep us from being successful a lot more that what we can’t do. Poor choices, not lack of talent and ability, are the greatest hindrances to most people’s [...]
Today’s Task - March 22, 2022 Someone once defined mentoring as intentionally investing your best into the lives of others. Every time I read those words, I think about all the people who have invested in me…..who gave of themselves freely for MY benefit. Whatever I can do today, whatever I can give, has been [...]
Today’s Task - March 17, 2022 Last week I celebrated my 69th birthday and one of the questions that keeps swimming around in my head is, “What does it feel like to be that old?” I came to the conclusion that the only person who can answer that is me AND that answer will be [...]
Today’s Task - March 7, 2022 At church this morning the Priest’s sermon was about “resisting life’s distractions.” As he listed a number of distractions we should be resisting, I wanted to jump up and shout, “No! If a person is spending all of their time trying to resist life’s distractions, they are, in fact, [...]
Today’s Task - February 28, 2022 I have never really been a fan of John Calipari, University of Kentucky basketball coach. Admittedly, I formed my opinion of him with little or no knowledge of what he was really about, instead, basing my thoughts on my perceived interpretation of things he said or did. Recently my [...]
Today’s Task - February 22, 2022 Tim S. Grover, personal trainer to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, calls it the Four Rings of Winning. Picture a bull’s-eye. There is a large ring on the outside, with a slightly smaller ring inside that one, and then an even smaller ring inside that one, and then in [...]
Today’s Task - February 1, 2022 I remember the experience like it was yesterday. As I walked into the Assistant Principal’s office, he was sitting there waving a piece of paper in the air. “What is this, he asked?” I explained that it was a referral due to the student’s ongoing behavior. I told him [...]