SPEAKER | AUTHOR | TRANSFORMATION STRATEGIST
At NBC Camp Maui last week I was ending a session when a kid named Kyson said, “Thank you…” after shaking my hand. Camp wasn’t over. It was just the end of nice hard day of gettin’ after it. Kyson lives on the island and I guess I had heard thank you so often while …
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Team, Today's Post
I met Scott Rueck at NBC Camp in Maui last week and you’re thinking, “So…” The point is that I didn’t know who he was either which is a shame considering that I’m immersed in the basketball world coaching kids, playing at my alma mater with current players, following the NBA and even the NBDL. …
Continue reading “A Brush with Bruin Pride”
Category: Character, Team, Today's Post
I wasn’t too busy to blog during camp this past week. I was too tired, too overwhelmed and too enamored. I’m all about memoirs and logging the adventures of daily occurrence. But sometimes there is a flood of good, so much to process that it can hardly be done justice in the 30 minutes or …
Continue reading “The Genuine”
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills, Team, Today's Post
What’s wrong with this picture? Absolutely nothing! I hardly went to basketball camps as a kid and it seems like I’m at several every summer. But it’s probably a different feel than if I had gone as a 14-year old. Camp has all the things society has on microcosmic levels. There’s people in the real …
Continue reading “THE CAMP LIFE”
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Team, Today's Post
Be careful not to change the subject when staying on task is the difference between a win and a loss. Sasha Vujacic changed the subject in the Lakers’ close out win yesterday over the Phoenix Suns when he lost his composure and elbowed Goran Dragic in the mouth. The two have a newfound rivalry despite …
Continue reading “BUT I DIGRESS”
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills, Team, Today's Post
Do you remember when Morpheus said to Neo, “The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part …
Continue reading “THE MATRIX FROM LAX”
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Team, Today's Post
There’s only one individual, if you will, who knows when you’re done. The truly great competitors know this truth if nothing else. This is why injury is but an obstacle to the Kobe Bryants and Steve Nashes. “When I’m Done” is not a dependent clause to the truly elite. It’s not a construction built in …
Continue reading “When I’m Done”
Category: Character, Team, Today's Post
