I can still remember the day I woke up in a panic. It was November 24, 2008, around 4 o’clock in the afternoon. For a moment, I thought I was late. For the previous four and a half years, my life had been planned out by college football coaches in fifteen-minute blocks. Meetings, workouts,...
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. — Matthew 5:5 If humility had a dashboard light, mine started blinking the year I thought I had everything figured out. I consider myself one of the most blessed people I know. I grew up surrounded by heroes—my father and my grandfather at...
I want to challenge a paradigm—a deeply ingrained way of thinking about a word we know well: responsibility. For much of my life, if you had asked me what responsibility meant, I would have described it as a burden. A checklist. A weight I had to carry. Something I needed to do, accomplish, or...
I accepted writing about the word availability and wondered how it was even a character trait. I have since learned two things. #1) I didn’t know what availability really meant, and #2) availability is a Force Multiplier. The operational definition of availability is “making my own schedule and...
