Posts Tagged ‘football inspiration’
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…
Read MoreHandling 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…
Read More5 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…
Read MoreDo You Inspire TRUST in Those Around You?
Is TRUST an issue in your workplace? Is it an issue at home? What can you do to rebuild it with your significant people? Or build it in the first place? My presentations on this subject have been well received by the financial industry and others. And I’m putting together a helpful guide full of…
Read MoreMake the Catch First – Then, Turn Up Field
Week 10 in the NFL, I noticed an error made by several players. During the morning games, two different times, a player turned his head up field before he had secured the ball. The “catch” was not complete – the ball dropped out of his hands. Fumble, and loss of down. One of my lessons…
Read MoreWhat a difference a coach makes!
What a difference a coach makes! I know the song title is “what a difference a day makes” and that applies, too, to my favorite game. Yesterday—week 9 of the NFL season, was truly an example of “any given Sunday.” I know—I’m mixing my songs and movies here, but REALLY! Anybody who picked all the…
Read MoreIs success contagious?
Imagine this: You are a rabid baseball fan in St. Louis. At the end of the season, your team barely makes the playoffs. In a best out of 7 playoff World Series, your team is down 3-2 to the Texas Rangers. Your team has to win the next two games in a row to win.…
Read MoreYou don't have to love football to learn the lessons of the game.
I just returned from keynoting at two events for women: one in Boston and one in Orlando for the Ophthalmic Women Leaders (OWL.) I was not surprised to see so many “football girls,” however, seeing my speech through the eyes of “non-football girls” was quite enlightening! There were moments during the speech when people would…
Read MoreThings You Can’t Measure…Sure Do Measure Up!
Are you still judging your worth in terms of net profit over the last five years? Don’t worry, your greatest resource is still intact: YOU! Football calls it “having the intangibles.” In an interview, Aaron Rodgers, last year’s Super Bowl-winning Quarterback and MVP put it this way, “Far too much weight is put on your…
Read MoreFootball Poetry? Sure!
Well, it’s not exactly football poetry, but the connection is there!!! So today the Dow dipped 500 points, and closed 391 points down. So now do we get all depressed ? Or just realize that when the whistle (closing bell in the stock market) blows, the play (day) is over, and yes, Scarlett, tomorrow IS…
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