Reposted from LinkedIn: Seth Godin 🌔 was right when he said people are going to steal your ideas. I work hard to share my ideas with you. And if I’m doing my job well people will share them and build off of them. They might even blatantly copy them. But at the end of...
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Is inconvenience really a bad thing? Sometimes there is value in being more closely connected to the process and final product. You might have to do more work and wait a little longer, but you’ll value the end result much more. ...
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Chicken In Your Teeth
Impressions are important. Especially when we want people to like us. Especially when those people have a hand in our future success. Especially when we are working hard to make sure that they are successful in the here and now. Getting caught up in theatrics will only get you so far. People don’t have...
Continue readingThoughts On Pace
Shortcuts Innovate or die Yes, the journey, but Keep up the pace Deliver Bogged down by manual labor Columns and rows, static Why bring something to life If you can create life elsewhere Wish lists Dreams The urgent and necessary course of animation Create something magical Forward, forward, forward...
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I was listening to an interview with Ryan Holiday today on the James Altucher show and was inspired by the topic of finding value in obstacles. To quote Ryan Holiday “the stoic way is that all of those obstacles are teachable obstacles and they’re valuable obstacles if you let them be so.” As I...
Continue readingThe Puddles Fade Away And Then They’re Gone
There are four more weeks left in the season for the Pocock Junior Novice Boys. This week we are doing final preparations for the Brentwood Championships, which are in Victoria, BC. We will travel by ferry early Friday morning, race that afternoon and through the weekend, ending late Sunday morning. Then we are back...
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I’ve often wondered why people ask me for advice or come to me with their problems. Maybe it’s because they think I am wise and knowledgable. Or maybe it’s because they think I’m an idiot who has probably made a lot of mistakes and lived to tell about them. The truth is I am...
Continue readingA Place For The Misfits
When I look at my career in coaching I see a unique pattern that has developed over time. I have coached everyone from totally new rowers to National team athletes. I have worked with everyone between the ages of 13 up to 80 years old. I have coached people with physical limitations and people who...
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