Teaching You How to Fish

“Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach them how to fish, and you feed them for a lifetime.” This is a quote from Chinese philosopher, Lao Tsu, founder of Taoism. I spent all of my college years proclaiming to be a Taoist, and it stuck. When I coach, I…

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Riveted to “Roosevelts?”–the Power of Resilience

I’ve been riveted to “The Roosevelts”—the PBS series by Ken Burns—have you?  Eleanor Roosevelt famously said, “You must do what you think you cannot do.”  After watching that episode, I awoke in the middle of the night, sat up in bed, and said aloud, “If you say you can’t, you won’t.  If you think you…

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