“When an opportunity is knocking, don’t complain about the noise.” –  Chad Veach Progress, growth, and/or learning don’t come easy.  You don’t sit down at a piano and begin playing.  You don’t pick up a nail gun and start nailing. Whatever comes easy to you, eventually, will get to the point where the next step […]

Winning is about sprinting when the distance is unknown. The only thing for sure is that if you don’t chase winning, you will lose.  You can be obsessed with winning.  Some take it to the extreme.  An obsession with winning can turn into bad losing.   I like to see a competitive nature in my teammates. There’s no […]

Our colleague Casey Fletcher sent this to me.  He harvested it from an old file.  We’ve been working together for 40-plus years.  We saw this quote in our early days as teammates.  It resonated then.  It resonates now.    “In Africa, every morning a gazelle awakens knowing that it must outrun the fastest lion if it wants to stay alive”   […]

“Humble yourself.  Or the game will humble you.” – Joakim Noah , NBA star Joakim Noah is special to me because he was a stalwart on the Florida Gator basketball team that won national championships in 2006 and 2007.  He was a first-round draft pick and played in the NBA for 13 years. He was known […]