Action Steps From NFL Playoffs

                Ahhhh, the NFL Playoffs last weekend delivered as usual:  thrills and chills, dramatic plays, even touching moments.  Three lessons for US in the real work world stand out to me: 1. Turnovers were the story.  Remember I’m always preaching “interception” in your own life.  I interpret the concept…

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Any Given Sunday: A Lesson For Us Women

                    As your self-appointed “funny football female,” I feel it my duty to make an impassioned plea to watch the NFL Playoffs with your husband, male honey, or hang-with pal.  Not that women aren’t watching.  Sunday Night Football is the fourth most watched program among women…

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Handling Your Holiday Stress (Wrapped in 5 Easy Tips)

A solution-focused, light-hearted approach for handling this season’s anxieties comes with a tangible payoff.  You choose to be happy. Yes, but in these troubled times? And with THAT family coming over? By following these 5 tips, you can improve your ability to focus on what matters and enjoy your holiday.  (I’ve teased you a bit…

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5 Tips for Handling Holiday Stress – #5

Practice the fine art of patience Practice “Wait Lifting.” This is the ability to wait and have patience in today’s 24/7, frenetic “now” culture. Patience is how you handle the wait of the world. By starting with light waits – not getting frustrated when the computer doesn’t boot up fast enough for you, or the…

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5 Tips for Handling Holiday Stress – #4

4. Make full use of your “Internal Whistle” This means what it means in football.  To stop the action, the whistle blows.  We need to take a deep breath and take stock before letting a stress trigger or a whiney nephew make you go nuts and say something you’ll regret. And before you scream at…

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5 Tips for Handling Holiday Stress – #3

3. Check your mental baggage We all have memories from past holidays. A lot of us haul around a hefty load of stress connected to the holidays of the past. According to Mental Health America “memories” account for close to 50% of all the sources of holiday stress. The problem is we don’t realize it.…

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5 Tips for Handling Holiday Stress – #2

2. Tap into your “personal control panel.” This controls what happens in your mind. Remember to “Play,” but skip the “Fast Forward,” because, as Gandhi famously said, “There is more to life than increasing its speed.”  Also, “Fast Forward” can lead to “self-fulfilling prophecy” scenarios in your head like, “Oh I know what’s going to happen:…

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Tis the Season: Choose to Receive

Okay, the “receiving” I refer to is not in regard to receiving a football, as you might think from the theme of my posts.  But…for those of you not yet on my email list – you are missing out! This is what I sent last week to thousands of “my people.”  All you have to…

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Vince Young: A Story of Redemption

When I heard Vince Young was going to be the starting Quarterback on Sunday for the Eagles, since Michael Vick was out with injured ribs, I had a feeling and a hope that Young might have progressed since I wrote about him in my book, Necessary Roughness: New Rules for the Contact Sport of Life.…

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Tebow – The “it” Guy with the X Factor

Some people just have “it.”  Call it the X Factor; call it charisma.  In the NFL, rookie QB Tim Tebow has “it.”  Sports pundits have been waxing rhapsodic about him since he was drafted last April.  I saw “it” firsthand on Sunday at Denver, when the Broncos did not beat the Chargers.  BUT, when Tebow…

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