“The elite organize themselves around being tested every day.” Michael Gervais  Gervais is a performance coach who works with elite athletes.  He has unique insight into what it takes to win the Super Bowl or gold medals.   Do you identify as elite?  Elite means you perform better than average.  Elite means you are rare when […]

“Being elite is wanting to do what you have to do.” – PJ Fleck, University of Minnesota head football coach  We go through periods where we are engaged.  We are excited.  We approach our work with enthusiasm.   We bust our ass.  We get things done.  Safe.  Housekeeping is great.  Numbers are rising.  We see results.  […]

Mistakes.  They are a part of life.  A Hall of Fame basketball coach had this to say about mistakes: “What to do with a mistake:  recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.”  Recognition.  It takes a certain humility to recognize a mistake.  We all know people who are “never wrong.”  We also know people […]

The Tampa Bay Bucs won the Super Bowl last night.  Most of the experts are giving Tom Brady a lot of credit for being the change the Bucs needed.  For Brady, it was his 7th Super Bowl victory and it was the 5th time he was named Most Valuable Player. His coach Bruce Arians called […]