Are You Running Tough?

1983 – the finish line of my marathon. My running partner: Donna, a fellow HR trainer at Northrop Aircraft. Anyone who has run a marathon knows just how tough it can be. And it’s not about how you start, but how you finish. And it’s not even about HOW you finish, it’s just about finishing!…

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“You Go Girls!”: U.S. Women Take the Gold

So I’m sure many of you watched the Opening Ceremonies for the Olympic Games on Friday night, and I’m sure many of you were as underwhelmed as I was.  Even if I felt like being generous, what chance did the Brits have after the Chinese choreographed 10,000 people in perfect harmony in Beijing four years…

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Thunder: Always Be Closing

So I must admit I am loving these NBA Finals—every night!  Immediate gratification—no week of waiting in between.  And I’m fascinated by the Spurs/Thunder match up:  age and experience vs. youth and unpredictability. 3 lessons we can learn from the Thunder victory in Game 4 the other night: 1.  It’s all about closing.  Or Always…

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Luck and Griffin: the New Breed

Transformation to Sports Nut complete.  In the absence of any competitive sports I love this weekend, I found myself watching the ISU World Figure Skating Championships—2012—that I dvr’d last weekend, while I was watching the Masters. . .oy vay.  Skating used to be my favorite spectator “sports” before I became addicted to football.  I still…

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Are you ALL IN?

Valentine’s Day:  a time to celebrate who and what we love. . .  Tim Tebow is among them. Sigh. . .football season is over. . .he’s not in the news any more. . .or is he?  Sports pundits have been comparing the hot new NBA sensation, Jeremy Lin, to our boy Tim.  And yes, I…

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This is for Mama Myra

So the NFL Playoff games last Sunday were not my favorite.  Both teams I was rooting for lost, and the losses were due to mistakes, glaring examples of players not doing their jobs as well as they usually do.  Was it the added pressure of “this is IT—we win this game and we go to…

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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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Where Was Peyton’s Matt Flynn?

A month till my birthday, which also means a month till the Super Bowl!  Before the season started, I was hoping my favorite quarterback, Peyton Manning, and his team would be IN the Super Bowl.  He inspired the first (and last) words of my football book.  His command of his job and his team made…

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Detroit Lions making a comeback…are you?

We are reinventing ourselves to survive in this economy.  I like to think of it as a “comeback.”  Last year was such a down year for corporate meetings using outside speakers, I toyed with the idea of going back into Human Resources for some company, other than my own.  Then, someone quoted Will Smith:  “”There’s…

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