“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 […]

I listened to a podcast where New Orleans Pelicans Coach Willie Green was being interviewed about his rookie season heading an NBA team. I appreciated his understated style, but a couple of insights shared about leadership and team development resonated with me. He was asked about the biggest thing that surprised him about being the […]

“Good, better, best.  Never let it rest…until your good is better and your better is best!” Heard that saying at a Fellowship of Christian Athletes camp almost 30 years ago.  It goes along with my word for 2020 which was “progress.” Seems to me, a strategy to get better every day is a sound one. To get […]

“We don’t rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training.” – Attributed to Archilochus, Greek soldier, circa 650 B.C. One of the neat outcomes of these notes is that through the years of writing them and reading them, we refine our joint understanding of how best to think, […]