Bob Costas once said that “baseball is proof of God, because no man could create a thing so perfect.” For those who have no connection to the sport, that quote may seem odd. But for me, that line pretty much sums up the way I have felt about baseball since I was still in single …
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It’s not an easy time for you. Leadership skills are being tried more than ever with the recent stay at home orders and virtual work. Speaking with several leaders these past weeks, I heard challenges arise from how to engage a team remotely to keep up productivity levels, how to create connections in the minuscule …
Valentine’s Day is notorious for making single people feel like crap. (And sometimes rendering those who are coupled disappointed when expectations go unmet or overtures are under-appreciated.) We’ve all been there. We profess it’s a dumb day for money-making marketers and try to be impervious to the heart-shaped candy boxes suddenly front and center everywhere, …
Sometimes a relationship runs its course and so the same can be said about a career. I’m not saying that we should treat our careers the way a kid eats candy canes – a few licks and then onto the next one. In fact, a meaningless job can become meaningful the moment it begins to …
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves.” – Leo Tolstoy This quote is so important. Now, more than ever, people are feeling overwhelmingly depressed and anxious, while simultaneously trying to change the world. In essence, they are asking the world to grow while they sit by and watch, hoping …
If you attended college in the U.S., then I’ll bet you’ve heard of pregaming. It’s when friends or students might load up on cheap drinks before visiting that expensive bar downtown. Pregaming made us feel smart and feel like we had outsmarted the system. Today as I begin a new journey here as a clinician …
Vision is always ahead of execution. This is something all artists learn on their way to becoming great. The moment we envision something that we passionately want for our lives, most often it is ahead of what we are able to produce at the moment. This is not failure, but the natural course of things. …
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