Tag: Brady’s Experiences

Ready for A New Year & A New Start in 2016?

Tomorrow, my Christmas & New Year’s break ends, and Tuesday the kids head back to school…so it’s time to make resolutions for the New Year!

I’ve heard it said that 80% of us will fall off the resolution bandwagon by Super Bowl Sunday (remember, it’s the 50th Super Bowl this year on February 7th).

If you succeed in reaching the goals you set at the beginning of the year, you’re in the Top 5 percentile.  In other words, on average of every 20 people, only 1 will keep her or his resolution…

Still, I’m convinced that we can do better…and it may help if we follow Andy Stanley’s Principle of the Path (“How to get from where you are…to where you want to be…”).

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Learnin’…By Reflecting on 2015…

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience. - John Dewey

On January 1, 2015, I started the year with a special focus on Love (my Fruit of the Spirit choice for 2015) and Leadership.

In their seminal work The Leadership Challenge, Kouzes and Posner concluded, “The secret to success is to stay in love. Staying in love gives you the fire to ignite other people, to see inside other people, to have a greater desire to get things done.”

As I reflect on the past year (and liberally borrow a syntax from the book Daddin’: The Verb of Being a Dad), I consider these themes:  Learnin’, Lovin’, and Leadin’.

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