High Performance Lifestyle
Helen Keller once noted that life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Too many of us start out truly believing in this as we make plans for trips around the world (after graduation of course), and then we make plans for daring adventures (after we get a good job of course) and then we make plans to save up (for a nice house of course) and then we make plans for funeral. [Read more…]
Julian Edelman is an unlikely Number One wide receiver for history’s most prolific offense. He was a 7th round draft pick out of Kent State, where he spent three years as a quarterback. Before that, he played a year of junior college football at the College of San Mateo.
His small stature meant that he was consistently overlooked and underrated. Despite his immense success as a football player, going all the way back to a Pop Warner National Championship, he has amassed more doubters than his three Super Bowl rings.
[Read more…]It doesn’t matter the industry or the field of play, the #1 rule vibrates throughout.
Choose a time and place, whoever or wherever, you will the see the #1 rule in action.
Leaders are makers.
But every leader, first they made themselves. [Read more…]
We are the product of our choices.
I will hazard a prediction. When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story. – Jeff Bezos
Like most people, Bezos found himself living the dream we aspire to: graduate of the Ivy League, high-paying finance job, and a life in New York City. [Read more…]
Yet, that is not how life works. Life is more like an adventure. When we set out on an adventure, we are unsure of the results but we look forward to the experience.
We don’t know what will happen in the end but we embrace the opportunity to do something fun/inspiring/noteworthy/epic. [Read more…]
