Whether you have the best team on earth or inherit the team of misfits, like Coach Dale, loving them is the difference between winning a game and transforming and forever altering lives. Loving isn’t something that you have or you don’t. It is a journey that may feel good at first but requires great commitment and humility to actually see results. It is not easy or fast or glorious.
It’s that time of year again when we start the process of remaking ourselves. This year I’ve “resolved” to try something different. Instead of trying to improve myself, what if I try improving the life of someone else. What are your ideas.
Curiosity may kill the cat, but it keeps us young, enlivened and interested. “Curiosity is the lust of the mind.” – Thomas Hobbes
It would probably make your day if your boss, banker, partner, or spouse called you and told you how important you are. In fact, it would be great if more people around you would tell you…
Recently, I was sitting in a board meeting, and I started to question why I was there—not in the existential sense—but why and how was I really serving the organization? Was I merely “showing up? 
“There are no stupid questions,” or so I’ve heard. Then I started asking a few and found that people look at me like I’m stupid, not the question. I guess I’ve been conditioned to suppress…
Here’s my story: What’s yours?