Category: winning

  • How Scars Remind Us of Our Past, Present and Future

    How Scars Remind Us of Our Past, Present and Future

    We all have some type of scar on our bodies.  Some have many more than others.  I made a list of the scars I have and they were plentiful.  I got most of them while I was a young boy and teenager growing up climbing trees, riding bikes, playing in the woods and rough housing…

  • What Does Winning At All Cost Really Cost

    What Does Winning At All Cost Really Cost

    As coaches we all want to win.  We want to win every game, every match, every set, every quarter, every period, every goal, everyday.  We talk about winning with our teams and prepare them to do so.  We set goals as a team and with the individuals on the team to accomplish the main goal…

  • 10 Quotes for Inspiration and Encouragement

    10 Quotes for Inspiration and Encouragement

    Today I am giving you 10 quotes to inspire, motivate, encourage and help you change where you are in life. You can be what you want to be if your challenge yourself, push yourself to live your dreams and accomplish your goals. Living a successful life requires hard work, dedication, determination, discipline and courage. Allowing…

  • Winners Never Quit, Quitters Never Win

    Winners Never Quit, Quitters Never Win

    When I was about eight or nine years old my dad wrote this quote in my baseball glove.  He was a winner and I never once saw him give up, give in or quit and that rubbed off on me and my brothers.  You know that quitting is easy to do.  Quitting is easy to…

  • Five Reasons to Surround Yourself With Positive People

    Five Reasons to Surround Yourself With Positive People

    Being a positive person is hard for some people while most can just make it happen daily. We can all look at life two ways that will guide us and how we live life. We can look at everything as a pessimist (person who finds the negative or problem in everything) or we can be…

  • Lack of Motivation In LIfe

    Lack of Motivation In LIfe

    We all know a few people that just lack motivation in life. Motivation to get out of bed, work, take care of obligations, care for others, take care of the family and generally just be a lump of coal in society. What drives a person to become that unmotivated about living life is the big…

  • Breaking Up Your Unplowed Ground- Bobby’s Story

    Breaking Up Your Unplowed Ground- Bobby’s Story

    Ever reach that point in life where you are not reaping the product you are desiring. Not getting the results you wanted to achieve? Many times in life we find ourselves cultivating our dreams, goals, desires and visions in a field of thorns. In the bible Gods word tells us; that we often reap what…

  • 5 Reasons Children Need Discipline

    5 Reasons Children Need Discipline

    As a father, teacher, coach and mentor of young folks, I see one downfall that is getting in the way of their adult lifes once they graduate school. That one thing is discipline or a lack of. Over the last 20 years schools have changed, kids have changed and society has softened it overall stance…

  • Thoughts About My Blessings

    Thoughts About My Blessings

    As I sat down to write today after eating a really yummy breakfast with my wonderful wife.  I was finishing up my third cup of coffee (shhh, don’t tell my doctor) and talking to my wife about all the things we are blessed by and with.  We talked about our family, our daughters, in-laws and…

  • Let Your Light Shine

    Let Your Light Shine

    Today we are talking about standing for right and not hiding your light.  What light am I talking about, you may ask?  I am referring to the light of Jesus Christ which is in all of us and only shows if we have chosen him over darkness.  I remember growing up and singing the song…

  • 10 Ways to Win in Life

    10 Ways to Win in Life

    Today I am writing about the ways we can work on our physical, mental and spiritual self to win at life. Winning in life is not about playing a game all the time or the result of a score board. As a coach I have had my fair share of both sides of the score…

  • Living By The Word

    Living By The Word

    Today in my morning reading, mediation and study I read about Living by the word of God. This is an incredibly hard thing to do as a human being made to use personal choice and decisions as a guide. I made the following notes as I was reading the information and trying to absorb it.…