SPEAKER | AUTHOR | TRANSFORMATION STRATEGIST
It is possible to exude things, to project onto others a certain sense or feeling. I didn’t think it real until recently though when I paid attention to how quickly and profusely people apologize to me. Students, players that I coach and even other adults commonly avoid eye contact when they have news they think …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills
There’s nothing more troubling than when elite public figures receive preferential treatment or conversely when they are ridiculed and berated because they’ve let down the expectations of a fan base. No one gets a pass from the human condition.
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, For Further Study
There are many types of humiliation but would you agree that the worst of them is when you’re being humiliated for no reason? A case-in-point would be those moments when you’ve found yourself the object, literally, of ridicule. We used to call it a “bagging session” but you might have known it as “roasting” or …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character
Change is a skill. People get paid to manage it and better still to manage how other people manage it. And the reason you can earn a check managing change is because it’s hard. Derek Fisher wears a #37 on his jersey in Oklahoma City and I’d bet it’s indicative of his age. Ain’t that …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills
Just when the King appears superhuman, he begins to commit the most glaring of faux pas. Six for seven from beyond the arc and while warding off the mythical Mamba himself. What beast shoots a step back 3-pointer from beyond 25-feet only to watch it splash down like a space capsule plummeting back to Earth …
Before Whitney Houston passed away last weekend, people spoke of her voice not being what it once was. I read articles and blogs recounting unsatisfied audiences, rudely storming out of venues and asking for refunds. Thanks to the wonder of high-speed internet, I caught glimpses of Whitney on her road to icon status and while …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character
The latest underdog craze is the New York Knick’s Jeremy Lin who’s been lightin’ up scoreboards and testing his mettle against NBA elite just one season after being cut by the Golden State Warriors. But it’s easy to root for a guy who has nothing to lose isn’t it? If he doesn’t succeed, no one …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character
