Traction
My earliest memory is of snow. I was three years old, and our Chevy Citation was stuck. We couldn't get enough traction to climb the…
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Time for a nap?
There's a story in Luke 8 about a napping Jesus. With his disciples, he decides to cross the Sea of Galilee (which is more like…
Providences
My thirteen year old and I needed to get COVID tests. We had to drive 30 minutes to a place we'd never been. The GPS…
Failure and effort
I'm a perfectionist. That means I have an irrational fear of failure. Engage if you're relatively confident you can win--or, at the very least, not…
Thirty minutes
The difference between being a well-read person--someone who reads a significant number of books in their lifetime--and someone who doesn't is thirty minutes per day.…
Failure, the coach
High performers tend to hate failure. Some of them hate it so much, they will deliberately not engage if they feel there is a decent…
Make a plan
My brilliant choral director in high school, Marcia Yost, had several catch phrases that I still remember. One was, "Don't forget your pieces and your…
Focused practice
We'd all like to skip to the part where we're awesome. We all enjoy the feeling of competence. It's much more fun to play an…