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FMLM

FMLM A few years back gas crossed the $4/gallon threshold. It was a scary moment for me as my 40 mile daily commute started eating away at my modest discretionary income. This despite the fact that I was already driving … Continue reading

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The Hidden Cause of Success and Failure

Success or Failure is the result of strategy, culture-character, or luck. An individual, school, team, or business, frequently fails to reach its potential b/c they spend a disproportionate amount of their time and effort on strategy and in doing so … Continue reading

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Toxic Narcissism-The Enemy of Character

I wrote long ago that the enemies of character are ignorance, apathy, and justification.  Shortly thereafter I added narcissism to the list. While narcissism can be relatively harmless it can also rise to levels of toxicity in some individuals. Unfortunately, … Continue reading

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An Accountable Team Wins to Their Potential 

Football isn’t like all of the other sports. It requires relentless orchestrated physical contact. Players must be smart, strong, fast, quick, relentless, powerful, quick thinking, cooperative, responsible, disciplined, tough, etc. Those traits have to be constantly developed, and developed to … Continue reading

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The Day I Tried to Give Away 500 Free Copies of My Book….and failed…well maybe not

The idea had been there for quite some time. Give away free copies of my book, “On Character and Mental Toughness.“ But how would I go about that? I couldn’t possibly afford to give away many soft cover copies. But … Continue reading

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