Don’t Put Off Kindness Normalize kind acts- don’t wait for tragedy. When I heard that a neighbor wasn’t feeling good, the girls got tasked with making hand rolled noodles while I harvested veggies from the garden and heated up bone broth to make soup to walk down the road with. So often it is when […]
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They Deserve Better Did you know…Children deserve more than just 4% of the total cancer research funding. Prostate cancer (patient average age at diagnosis, 66 years), receives more research funding from the National Cancer Institute (federal funded) than ALL childhood cancers put together (patient average age at diagnosis, 6 years). They deserve treatment that isn’t
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What We Do When No One is Watching It’s what we do when we think no one is watching that matters. Because it is in those moments that your character is seen. It is in those moments that values are lived or hypocrisy comes out to play. We all know of those in our community
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Appreciating the Good We Have I never want to take for granted wearing pajama pants during meetings.But I will.Because humans are remarkably good at adapting, moving forward and chasing things we don’t have instead of appreciating what we do.When the power goes out, when you lose water, you gain appreciation of being able to just
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Leading by Example A team of champions is stronger than a championship team.Just as you want a team of leaders not a team with a leader.This morning I got to witness what it looks like to have a team of champions, led by a coaching staff that understands that leadership is a lifestyle not a
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Let Fear Advise, Not Dictate How do you handle fear? I felt fear creep in as I headed out on an early morning run a few days after a woman was kidnapped and murdered while running early in the morning in Memphis. Was it safe for me to go running this early or was I
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The Glass is Already Broken “The glass is already broken” is a maxim repeated often in our house.It comes from a story of a zen master who had a prized cup, and while he chose to use it and show it to others, he also repeated to himself “the glass is already broken”, that way,
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Motivation Requires Purpose The Purpose of Chasing Squirrels and BallsThis week’s question comes from a supervisor asking about how to best motivate her team- “…they just don’t seem to care anymore, and the quality and effort of work is not what it used to be. I saw your posts about being self motivated but how
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Was that an explanation or an excuse? Wait- was that an explanation or an excuse? The difference matters, and if you are a leader at work, a parent, a coach… you want to make sure you get it right. Does this sound familiar? You get ready to explain why something didn’t happen as desired (didn’t
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Courage looks like this Courage looks like this. Being courageous doesn’t mean you are without fear. Courage requires shaking hands with fear. It takes courage to be kind. It takes courage to be scared and still move forward. Courage is finding the light no matter how deafening the darkness feels. When I think of courageous
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