Exaggerated Stress
"Like all weak men, he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind." ― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage...
Yogi Berra’s 10 Best Quotes
• "When you get to a fork in the road, take it." • "It gets late early around here." • "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore." • "The future ain't what it used to be." • "Ninety percent of this game is half mental." • "I really didn't say...
Keep Standing
"Regardless of how many times you are knocked down, keep standing!" "If you don't know where you're going, you might end up someplace else." - Yogi Berra "No improvement happens without change. For every change, there is a price. The value is in the commitment!" - Vicki Ash KEEP STANDING Unless you reach for something beyond...
Never a Wrong Time to do the Right Thing!
"Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity. Pride is the virtue of a foolish person." - Rick Rigsby "You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence should be a habit, not an act." - Aristotle Wisdom can come to you in the most unusual of places...
Looking at the Barrel and Making a Plan
We're just getting home from teaching at a new club for us - Minute Man Sportsman’s Club just north of Boston. What a perfect time of year to go to a cooler climate. The leaves had not started turning yet, but give it a week or...
True Measure of a Person
Failure is inevitable and is the most feared confrontation of most people's lives. But at the same time, it is a necessary part of skill-building. I said something the other day in a way that I have never said before. "When correcting from a failure, you are...
Wisdom Through Failure
Wisdom can come to you in the most unusual of places - a lot of times through failure! When you combine wisdom with optimism, you can get the perfect storm of rapid skill development because you finally realize that failing is the key that opens the...
Three Myths of Skill Building
In studying skill-building we have come across something that we think you will find interesting as we did. The Three Myths of Skill-Building "Skill is Genetic." "She is a natural." "He was just born with a natural ability that few possess." While being tall can be an advantage in...
The Value of Practice & Training
The true value of practice and training is that they allow you to train your brain to anticipate farther and farther into the future. Repetition begins the process and detailed correction allows for it to improve. The most skillful person in the room is the one...
Where Did July Go?
Wow, where did July go? We got to spend some time at the bay house over the 4th of July, but the winds were so high that we didn’t even get the boat out of the stall. We did have the right West winds for some...