Category: perseverance

Get up

May 16, 2013 | 2 comments

It’s not whether you get knocked down,   it’s whether you get up.   ~ Vince Lombardi       We all get knocked down on occasion. Winners snap back up and don’t waste time whining and complaining about misfortune.  

Strive for excellence

May 10, 2013 | 3 comments

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. ~ Pat Riley Wouldn’t it be nice if everything we did was excellent and perfect the first time? Well, in the everyday course of life, it doesn’t usually work

No limits

November 8, 2012 | 1 comment

Wise counsel The person who says it cannot be done, shouldn’t interrupt the one who is doing it. ~ Chinese Proverb         Argue for freedom     If you argue for your limitations, you get to keep

National Champs

October 23, 2012 | 7 comments

My wife is a National Champion! Yep, believe it or not, she is a member of a USTA 3.5 women’s tennis team that advanced all the way from humble, hardly-anyone-has-heard-of Tri-Cities, Washington, to the USTA National Championship tournament held in Indian

Find the peace

February 22, 2012 | 5 comments

At several lectures recently, when relating a story to my audience about a time when I had a tough decision to make, I’ve said, “I waited until I felt the peace.” And then I went on to explain that once I