Push Comes to SHOVE
$50 says life is pushing you around right now. What are you gonna do about it?
Category: Character
REINVENTING THE PUZZLE
Systems, puzzles, games and teams all have pieces and when one is missing, you notice. Just ask the Lakers who have lost three of the last five games to potential playoff opponents. Since their 15 ppg (points per game)/8 rpg (rebounds per game) piece went down with an Achilles injury on March 20, the unit …
THE FACT OF THE MASTERY
Name a goal, any goal. I was talking to a young guy two days ago about his, He’s a good basketball player, probably good enough to play professionally overseas and he’s attempting to do just that in Korea. We talked about being negatively motivated. Maybe my terminology is technically inaccurate. What I mean is that …
Why life offers no DO-OVERS
“If I had it all to do over again…” Wouldn’t you skip everything that got you to where you are today? I’m not speaking of the exciting but difficult undertakings of being offered a good but demanding job or landing a scholarship that makes being a college student twice as hard. I’m talking about more …
I GOT NEXT
He might not know it but my cousin was my idol when I was little. He was eight years my senior and on occasion I got to ride in the car with Billy. Sometimes I got to go to the gym with Billy and shoot on the side courts while my cousin and his buddies …
THE MIRROR on monday
It is “a fixing of the thoughts on something, careful consideration” but it can also be “an image, representation, counterpart” according to dictionary.com. The question is, how do you leave reflection? The first definition is readily what this past weekend has wrought, a stopping to reflect on the life of perhaps the most disputed person …
SOMETHING ABOUT LOVE
I don’t know why I was thinking about this on the Saturday before Easter but if it’s on the brain it’s sometimes worth saying. Dangerous rule of thumb. But it’s a 6ixth Man Lesson. I had a few minutes before going to a music rehearsal for a band I’m in and I was thinking about …