Subject: Without vision, there is no action

Without vision, there is no action

November 6th, 2023 at 4:43 pm PDT

One of Jim Camp's 33 rules for negotiation View onlineMy dad always wanted me to become a placekicker in football. He was probably right in retrospect. More chances to get on the field. On a few of my teams I was the backup or 3rd or 4th string. Nev ...

We will get by. We will survive

November 3rd, 2023 at 5:04 pm PDT

Why becoming a Baseball Hall of Famer might not be so awesome after all View onlineOn a broadcast early this season or sometime last season, National Baseball Hall of Famer and current Fox Sports broadcaster John Smoltz said, I'm not a big music guy ...

History rhymes

November 1st, 2023 at 4:39 pm PDT

even if those who write it are terrible poets View onlineWhile I have, as long as I remember, stood against the leftist cultural agenda, for a long time I never liked the moniker of conservative. While Rush Limbaugh and others like him might have s ...

We can't have nice things

October 30th, 2023 at 5:08 pm PDT

even if the nice things are ugly View onlineNot too far from where I grew up was a nuclear power plant called Trojan. Total eyesore and a political hot-button. One could see it from the I-5 freeway. The plant was in Oregon, but on this stretch of th ...

You're with us or against us

October 27th, 2023 at 5:04 pm PDT

and it's nothing to do with war View onlineI have a folder in my hard drive called Daily Action. When I'm good about it, I pick out one thing out of it each day and use it as a focal point. I can't really quantify its usefulness, but I like it. Usua ...

At least it's an ethos

October 26th, 2023 at 5:30 pm PDT

Some thoughts on the Rapture View onlineThere has been a lot of lunacy lately with regard to the situation in the Middle East. It's basically been rinse-and-repeat my entire life. Some situations change, but the general tone over there is uncivil, t ...

Advice from 'The Jungle'

October 25th, 2023 at 4:20 pm PDT

Listening to Jim Rome pays off View onlineOne of the things that comes up a lot in my line of work is productivity and time management. How can we become more productive? How can I manage my time better? Easy answer is that it is a process. There's ...

A song about the American dream

October 24th, 2023 at 5:21 pm PDT

Over 30 years ago, this classic was released View onlineThe first comedy album I ever remember buying was Denis Leary's No Cure for Cancer. I was in high school. I pretty much had that routine memorized. Still do, for the most part. I was the Denis ...

The score takes care of itself

October 23rd, 2023 at 4:46 pm PDT

Wisdom from Coach Bill Walsh View onlineThe common question this time of year, is October the best sports month. My answer: It used to be. I believed that and wrote about it nearly a decade and a half ago. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/26891 ...

Every day get one more yard

October 19th, 2023 at 4:45 pm PDT

Parcells Petty — football, rock 'n' roll, and book reading View onlineI've talked and written a good deal about the power of mindset. It can be transformative. Depending on one's frame of mind, it can be utterly transformative—in either a positi ...