I try to start each day with a gratitude list. A list of things I’m grateful for. It puts things immediately into perspective and wipes out a lot of the daily tensions. If you only do this once a year, you’re doing yourself a disservice. It’s a practice that puts your brain into a much better … [Read more...]

In this community, we’re not doing things the same old way. We’re not working longer hours and skipping sleep to get our grades. We're just a little smarter than everyone else, right? It doesn’t show right away, but as time goes by and your skill sets grow the returns become exponential. Your … [Read more...]

Do you know which animal sleeps the least? I know what you’re thinking, and, no, it isn’t PA students. It’s the giraffe. The elephant and the dolphin are close behind, but the giraffe sleeps the least. In fact, for a long time, it was thought that maybe they didn’t sleep at all. Giraffes take … [Read more...]

Average? Not good enough? ​ The guy who head coaches my youngest’s travel baseball team cracks me up. I don’t know why I was thinking about him, but something he said popped into my head. As coaches, we would get to the field about 15-20 minutes before practice would start. We always … [Read more...]

My oldest son asked, “Dad, why do we have practice shirts for baseball?” I love that he asks these questions because it forces me to put principles into words. Here’s the reason (and it applies directly to you): It keeps coming back to one thing, FOCUS. Without focus all of the time, skills … [Read more...]