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Yes, it’s another basketball post. Sorry, I can’t help myself. Besides basketball being my first love, I’m watching “The Last Dance” right now. It’s incredible–definitely watch–and it’s bringing up all sorts of thoughts for me. Here’s one… Michael Jordan famously had a “Love Of The Game” clause in his contract with the Chicago Bulls. ItContinue reading “For Love Of The Art”

“To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities.” -Bruce Lee I couldn’t resist another post and quote from my man Bruce. This one’s been knocking around in my head for months. Tried to expand on this idea, but everything I wrote paled in comparison to the power of his one sentence. So let’s leave it atContinue reading “Opportunity”

“Things will never be the same. That’s just the way it is.” -Tupac Shakur “Nothing will ever be the same.” Been hearing this a lot lately? I sure have. This doesn’t mean things will be worse. It just means they will de different. And different can be a great thing. Truth is, we needed toContinue reading “Nothing Will Ever Be The Same”

“Named must your fear be, before banish it you can.” — Yoda “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” – Joseph Campbell “We suffer more in imagination, than in reality.” – Seneca I’ve never read the book “Feel The Fear…and Do It Anyway” but the title alone seems like great advice.Continue reading “Fear”

“You know what the worst thing about someone breaking up with you is?… Remembering how little you really thought about the people you broke up with and realizing that’s how little they’re thinking about you.” Before Sunrise Consider sonder. Which is, the realization that everyone has their own narrative going on in their head. AndContinue reading “Sonder”

1986. Miami Beach, Florida. North Shore Park. Outdoor basketball courts. Night. Under the sodium lights. I’m thirteen. I’m short. And a little bit chubby. (The polite term back then was “husky.”) But I can shoot…when I’m wide open. As usual, I’m practicing by myself on a separate basket. One of the adults on the “grownContinue reading “It Doesn’t Matter”

It’s easy to look around and diagnose the problems. How many books, articles and news stories do nothing but that? Day after day. An unending stream of “let me show you how bad things are”; “why we’re in this mess; “who’s to blame.” Sadly, most of it is designed to hold our attention spans hostage.Continue reading “Solutions”

You’re not doing this play and this role because of vanity. You’re not doing the difficult, often thankless, producing work because “it’s good to get up there.” You’re not doing it because you want to “showcase your talents.” You’re not doing it because you want people to come up to you at the end ofContinue reading “Vanity Project”

“When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you’ll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger. Your sense of good and evil may be the same as theirs, or near it, in which case you have to excuse them. Or your sense ofContinue reading “Assume Positive Intent”

Sorry, I couldn’t resist an opportunity to insert a Laker image. I miss hoops. But Shaq definitely looks enthusiastic in this picture, doesn’t he? The word enthusiasm is derived from the Greek word, entheos, which means “inspired from God.” Trust your enthusiasm. It’s coming from a deeper place. And know that when you’re enthusiastic aboutContinue reading “We Need Your Enthusiasm”