It’s been a rough week. Ok fine, month. Well, really a year.
Nothing is really clicking and I seem to be falling down on most, if not every front, in my life.
Take this blog for instance. I love this blog. I love writing this blog. Each week I fully intend to write the blog. And then it doesn’t happen. Other work pops up. (Also there is reality TV and Friends re-runs). Or I have projects to get done around the house. (Also, there is Internet shopping and ...
A few things to know about me:
I love sports.
I love competition.
I love winning.
I hate the direction of youth sports.
Why? Because more and more youth sports are being treated in the same manner as professional sports.
In professional sports, the athlete is a highly paid adult who is expected to perform consistently at a high level. The objective is to win. While skill development and individual achievement are nice things (think Most Improved Player or scoring titles and Most Valuable Player), ask LeBron ...
You weren’t invited to the party.
You didn’t qualify to the championship meet.
You were rejected from your first choice college.
You didn’t get the job.
All of these are disappointing moments in a person’s life. And I certainly know that when you are disappointed you feel sad, maybe even a little sorry for yourself that things didn’t go your way. After a little while of licking your wounds, you might begin the post-mortim, dissecting every ...
I don’t trust myself. As a result, I consistently plan for failure. To be clear, I don’t plan to fail, but I plan my reaction to failure and actions when it inevitably occurs.
In fact, I am a huge believer in planning for failure. Yes, that goes against the positive thinking model that stresses thinking optimistically in order to achieve the result or goal we are striving to reach. And, while I agree that an optimistic outlook is useful in helping ...
Class Management Software
