School administrators have plenty of people asking for their time, attention, and budget money. There are school assembly programing emails you open up and you think, “I don’t have time for this,” or, “Ugh, this just isn’t for us.” It is important for you to: Spend your money well. Further advance the education and development […]
Making the decision to change can be hard. But what trips people up most is knowing how to go about making changes that will have a big impact but will also last. I remember that feeling. Coming out of treatment I felt like I’d been struggling for so long. I’d been doing the same thing […]
What we think about ourselves can – and does – play a large part in everything we do. Identity is important because in a lot of ways it influences how we live. Identity is who we were created to be. It’s what sets us apart from others and includes the qualities, beliefs, personality, and expressions […]
Everyone has a voice. Technically, our voice is the sound that comes out when we open our mouths to speak or sing. But, what do people mean when they say we all “have a voice?” “Having a voice” may mean different things to different people. For some people, it can mean being true to what […]
Words are powerful. What the world says about who you are can impact how you see yourself. Even the way you talk to yourself can make a difference in how you see yourself – and that can influence the choices you make in life. It’s like this… Over time, if someone continually calls you a […]
I’m off the top rope/ you can call it Randy savage/ I’m off the top rope/ you can call me Randy savage/ I’m of the top/ I’m off the top/ I’m off the top, like macho man/ I’m off the top rope/ you can call it Randy savage/ I’m off the top, call it macho […]
My speaking schedule recently took me to The Gopher State (Minnesota) to speak at Discovery Middle School and Alexandria Area High School. My days of playing football put me in front of some large audiences – speaking to over 2000 middle schoolers and high schoolers was an opportunity to make an impact unlike anything I ever experienced during my playing days. It is an opportunity I do not take for granted.
We have all done things in our lifetime that we are not proud of. I know I have my fair share of regrets. In fact, this is true of most people I know that have struggled with addiction. If you would have told many of us that we’d be remembered by some of our bad […]
Sunday, April 27, 2008, is a day I’ll never forget. I remember sitting on an uncomfortable couch in a small income-based apartment in Brookings, South Dakota feeling devastated. The 29th consecutive NFL draft had just ended and taken my dreams of being a professional athlete with it. I was a standout Division I athlete at […]
Reinventing Bobby Jones – A standout Yankton football player whose talents earned him a scholarship at Michigan State is now sharing the story of how he screwed it all up.