Comeback Time! Find the Fire

How cool is it that the NFL Playoffs and the College Championship and Bowl games happen for New Year’s?  Just when we are fighting our tendency to hash over last year’s regrets — the unfulfilled expectations– the thwarted intentions, here come my favorite sport’s biggest contests to remind us how to start fresh.  Someone recently…

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Ray-Ray’s Inspiration After the Loss

                              I am fascinated by Ray Lewis, the 36-year old, 15-year veteran linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens.  He holds many records for achievement on the Defense.  He also had a run-in with the law in 2000, and got 12-months probation, and…

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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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Thank Your Little Voice for Sharing!

                    Since everyone else is talking Tebow, let’s talk about the other game:  the one that inspired me to tell a group of California Women Business Owners (the actual name of the group) to cut out the defeatist attitude if business is not what it used…

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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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