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What is your superpower?  At some point in our lives, we have been enamored with a fictious hero that possesses a superpower.  A unique tool only they can deploy that sets them apart.  It has the potential to save the world.      What Is Your Superpower? A few weeks ago, our Mayor and I were meeting with one of our local principals.  Both the principal and I are products of our community and the school system she now plays a key role in administering. She was recently appointed as the principal of her school and as customary, as best practice we like to facilitate a meeting between the

Out of position is not a place any player wants to be.  It means that their positioning on the field of play has cost them and the team something.  They just weren’t where they were supposed to be.  Out of Position For twenty-one years I roamed the sidelines of a football field as a coach.  As a head coach, I always called the plays on offense and had a strong defensive coordinator to complement me.  Even as an offensive mind, I always loved the element of working with the defensive coordinator to develop schemes to put the players in the right positions to make plays. Our schemes were

The value of circumstances are found in life and leadership lessons.  If we are living and breathing, we face circumstances.  They are the conditions of the environment that we currently exist in. Here is the thing about circumstances, especially when they are tough ones.  We as humans naturally want to be rescued from them.  Just like the Coast Guard rescuing someone from a raging sea.  We want that helicopter to drop the ladder and extract us out of the circumstance…immediately.  Not later, but now.  Since the ladder doesn’t always get dropped down for us, we must change our approach to difficult seasons in our worlds.  Our prayers and

How will your life be impacted the day after the election?  The answer to this question will be grounded in pure emotion.  If your candidate loses, you will likely feel devastated, denied, and discouraged.  If your candidate wins, you will likely feel ecstatic, elated, and encouraged.  Some win, some lose. Here is what I know.  Wednesday morning, our lives will move forward.  They will move forward in the community where we live, work, and play.  A space and a place where we have the opportunity to make a difference.  Day in and day out.         Leadership and Main Oddly enough, the 200th post comes one day before our

There are enemies of empathy that lurk within each of us.  They lie deep within all of us and can significantly impede our ability to connect with other human beings.  Most people could not articulate the difference between the words sympathy and empathy.  While they align in some ways, there are a few degrees of separation that drastically change the intended impacts of their use.   Sympathy vs Empathy I have always believed that sympathy is when we have actually walked in someone else’s shoes.  We can connect with them based on shared physical and emotional experiences in life.  Connecting on that level is instantaneous and requires minimal effort

We can easily underestimate what we can accomplish in a day’s work.  Often, we focus on the limitations of the day, not the possibilities of it.  Our heads are filled with reminders about how quickly time passes, not the potential to fend off the hands of time for just one day.  A Day’s Work Earlier last week, I received a call from the mother of a former football player of mine.  Mrs. Rose, who all of us at the ballpark affectionately referred to her as, asked if my son Grant and I would be interested in traveling to Knoxville, Tennessee to see her son Joshua play football on