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What are you doing to make a mark in this world? Are you creating buildings? Are you helping serve people? Does your life matter? These are questions I ask myself on a daily basis. I sometimes help other people ask these questions when I do coaching. I think they […]
I know I inhabit a small speck of the universe, but boy do I enjoy life. Ask me in five minutes and maybe I will tell you something different - but man when it comes together it feels so good. The longer I live the more I firmly believe that if you use […]
In 1986 I was advised by my brother n law’s brother Dave to buy a CD player. He was dead on with the new technology and now some 20 years and 800+ CD’s later I have now made a new switch.
I bought this:
I will never look back. It is incredible. […]
Yesterday was an eventful day in two respects:
1) We had our first look at our St. Kate’s Women’s Volleyball team in action vs. competition other than inter-squad. We played St. Olaf, Hamline University and Luther College. Our team came out flat against St. Olaf in our opening scrimmage, but then in the […]
Oh just because it is early, I am delaying my run and why not:
You Are Apple Green
You are almost super-humanly upbeat. You have a very positive energy that surrounds you.
And while you are happy go lucky, you’re also charmingly assertive.
You get what you want, even if you have to persuade those against you to see […]
Tomorrow marks the first real test for our volleyball team at St. Kates this year. We have been going hard now for five days and have only had minor setbacks to our team. An ankle injury, a little flu-bug going around, freshman jitters, etc. But all in all, things are going well. […]
Today I dropped my wife off at the airport. She is going on vacation with my family. This is even weird to write - Danielle and I have spent time apart since we have been married, but mostly it is when I travel around doing recruiting, consulting, coaching or whatever… So, the […]
Yesterday I was able to watch the last hour of the PGA championship which was totally dominated by Tiger Woods. After he won he was asked by a reporter this question:
I had to ask him: Do you ever feel sorry for opponents as you destroy them on championship Sundays?
”No.”
Tiger is a competition / […]
So today, as I wrote about the other day - we are starting our preaseason today for St. Kates Volleyball. We had two practices today and it was fantastic. Last year we went 3-24, yes that is not a typo. We are a rebuilding program and last year was the hardest season […]
Do you have the players you need on your team to be able to compete? This is a question I asked myself today both with my team at St. Kates, and my team at Bethel Seminary. This year should be big for both entities that I work / coach / recruit for, […]