Full-time Father, Husband, Son, Brother and Uncle.
Windsor, Ontario
Joined February 2011
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"How long are you going to wait before you demand the best of yourself?" –Epictetus
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“To be successful at anything, you don’t have to be special.
You just have to be what most people aren’t: consistent, determined and willing to work for it. No shortcuts.”
— Tom Brady
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“Be satisfied with even the smallest progress," Marcus Aurelius said. You’re never going to be perfect—there is no such thing. You’re human. So instead, aim for progress, even the smallest amount.
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No matter how old we are, we’re always trying to live up to the examples and expectations set for us by our Dads.
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Ego Is The Enemy. You’re not as good as you think. You don’t have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better.
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Being yourself is a continuous effort.
There is always another expectation placed upon you, another person pulling you toward their preferences, another nudge from society to act a certain way.
It's a daily battle to be yourself, not merely what the world wants you to be.
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The greatest muscle you can build is urgency.
Decrease the time between having an idea and getting it done. Everything changes.
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Growth will cost you something.
Time, money, comfort, ego, convenience. You will have to say no to things, you will have to say goodbye to things. It may be painful at times.
It's not about what you want. It's about what you are willing to sacrifice.
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The small things we do that no one sees, results in the big things that everyone wants.
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Culture isn’t built in a day.
Success isn’t built in a day.
Mindset isn’t built in a day.
Habits aren’t built in a day.
Greatness isn’t built in a day.
The foundation isn’t built in a day.
It’s built one day at a time.
Keep showing up.
Keep doing the work.
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To paraphrase both Greg McKeown and Jim Collins: look for single decisions that remove hundreds or thousands of other decisions.
This was one of the most important lessons Jim learned from legendary management theorist Peter Drucker. As Jim recounted on the podcast, “Don’t make a hundred decisions when one will do. . . . Peter believed that you tend to think that you’re making a lot of different decisions. But then, actually, if you kind of strip it away, you can begin to realize that a whole lot of decisions that look like different decisions are really part of the same category of a decision.”
Much like my startup vacation/retirement in 2015, I’m now asking myself across the board: what can I categorically and completely remove, even temporarily, to create space for seeing the bigger picture and finding gems?
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Youth sports are a trip…
The moment a young athlete struggles…
Lessons, camps, clinics and private training…
The young athlete gets shoved into a headlong dive of sport specific training...
Does anyone ever think…
Little johnny can't hit or throw because he’s just not strong enough yet…
Little Janey is falling behind on the soccer field because she’s just not fast enough yet…
Little Ricky can’t dribble because just not coordinated enough yet…
Maybe they need something other than focusing on sports skills..
Maybe they need to develop a better foundation of fundamental movement skills…
Maybe they need more running...
Maybe they need more jumping...
Maybe they need more climbing...
Maybe they need more crawling...
Maybe they more play...
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