College Recruit while still in diapers

Kids are no longer allowed to be kids. Everything is work. when they play sports it is work. We can tell this because kids are getting special coaches outside of his or her team’s coach so that he or she will have an edge. An edge over what? The other 7-year-old kids who are getting [...]

Consistency while teaching children

I’ve been teaching children for 20 years and I still love to do it every day. I love planting the seed of knowledge and watching as it grows over months and sometimes years until that fateful day when I can see the light go on over the child’s head and they so, “Ohhhhhh now I [...]

An important distinction

What I am about to say is something that is oft overlooked but is blatantly obvious. The intentions of competition and the intentions of training are exactly opposite. When I am competing, in a race or whatnot, I want to be as efficient as possible. I want to use as little energy as I can [...]

An ode to teachers

First, this is not about me. This is about everyone who teaches for us and everyone who teaches and has taught us in the past to whom we would like to say “Thank You”. Teachers have an impossible difficult task. Your goal is to identify what is missing in someone, point out what is missing [...]

Self Reliance

Emerson wrote a short essay called “Self Reliance”. It basically says just what you would expect from the eminent write from Boston. Doing what society thinks you should do is easy in public and doing what you believe you should do is easy when you are alone. The true reliant individual is one who does what [...]

New Years, New Goals, Same problems

So for New Years I am psyched that everyone is interested in getting fit but let me make a brief request in order to help everyone involved. Think “consistency” over “intensity”. Get your but in the gym on a regular basis forever rather than going every day for a month or two, working out like  [...]