Earlier today, I was out in my front yard doing my best Johnny Bench imitation. It wasn’t a very good impersonation, but first my son and later my daughter needed someone to help practice pitching. I managed to keep the ball in front of me most of the time and give each pointers along the way. photo credit: Bee Skutch One thing I noticed is that my son’s baseball pitching and my daughter’s fastpitch softball pitching both got better when…
Whenever I’m at a wedding reception, someone always comes up to me with a video camera and says something like, “Don’t you want to say something to the bride and groom?” photo credit: neate photos I got tired of saying something lame like, “Congratulations! I know you’ll be very happy!” So I thought about what I wish someone would have said to me when I got married. Here’s what I say now: “There are two rules to a happy marriage….
Teamwork is one of the leading indicators of a strong network marketing system. photo credit: ArtemFinland I considered that recently while reading “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,” by Patrick Lencioni. The book, which is described as a “leadership fable,” is a fictional story about how a newly hired CEO leads the executive staff of a troubled technology company. Lencioni then follows the narrative with an overview of the model it describes. As a strong proponent of using teamwork to…
I moved the blog to a new server today and learned a lesson along the way. The move was not as simple or as easy as I’d hoped. To be honest, it was kind of intimidating. Numerous times along the way, I’d read the instructions for what to do and say to myself, “Huh?” Several times, I wanted to just stop and forget it. Have you ever been trying to accomplish something and a little voice keeps telling you that…
The other day, I was reading a story about NASCAR driver Kyle Busch. He’s not my favorite, but I admire his will to win. In the story, Busch talked about what motivates him. “What I use is the car in front of me. If there’s a car in front of me, I’m going to chase him,” Busch said. “… I want to pass that guy. If I’m the leader, there’s another car in front of me, he’s going a lap…
The other day, my wife was talking to our daughter about how her day at school went. My daughter talked about an exercise one of her teachers had the students do that day. The teacher asked the students to join their two hands together, interlocking their fingers. She then told the students to look at their fingers to see which of their thumbs were in front. When people put their hands together like that, they almost always do it the…
One evening last weekend, my daughter wanted me to go jogging along the beach with her. I had taken a long walk with my wife and son that morning, but I was still up for a nice relaxing run. Unfortunately, a storm came up before we started. So we decided to jog the next morning instead. Bright and early, we headed out on the sand. It was beautiful. We had barely got started when I told my daughter we should…