Legendary basketball coach John Wooden was the most successful basketball coach of all time. The accomplishments set by his UCLA teams include 10 NCAA championships in 12 years, and 4 full undefeated seasons. But what few people realize is that Wooden was a model of success not only in basketball, but also in life. Wooden’s […]
Category Archives: Self Development
The question was originally asked in reference to having a spiritual calling and not knowing how to get to the point where you’re actually serving humanity. It’s no different if you are an entrepreneur with an internal calling to successfully run your own company, a musician with a calling to perform on stage for large […]
How did I get where I am and how do I get where I want to bethat is the question? Most people at some time in their lives look inward and ask something akin to how did I get here? Sometimes this question is disguised in other forms like, “Why do I get so angry? […]
When you don’t want to do something, it is very easy to make excuses. For some reason, excuses provide the illusion of getting you off the hook, or making it okay not to do whatever you committed to or planned to do. Excuses are, however, just excuses – not really a reason to not do […]
“How’d they do that?” I asked myself time and time again in my youth. As a journalist and documentary filmmaker, I witnessed ordinary people performing extraordinary feats on countless occasions. I documented individuals in moments of crisis and emergency going beyond the limits they and society believed possible. Caught up in earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and […]
It is extremely important that people have a good first impression of you. Either you make a good impression or you will suffer for it! It is going to affect how your contact views you for the rest of that conversation. It can affect how fast a friendship starts, or how fast business relationships get […]