On Friday, August 31st my neighbor Jeff and I went to Charlotte to a breakfast at the Weston hotel to hear my friend, Coach Joe Gibbs speak about his new book hot off the press: Game Plan For Life, co-authored by Jerry Jenkins.
I'd say there was a pretty good turn-out. Over 1200 people, to be exact! We sat at the table next to Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory. There were several former NFL players there and some NASCAR folks too. Joe was introduced by his son J.D. who is now the President of Joe Gibbs Racing.
Joe always has a great sense of humor and some wonderful stories from his football days on the gridiron.
So here's a guy who was a physical education major from San Diego State University. He goes on to be offensive line coach at four major colleges before moving up to the National Football League. For seventeen years, he served as assistant coach to the St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the San Diego Chargers before getting the call to become the new head coach for the Washington Redskins.
In spite of losing his first five games with the Redskins, Joe went on to lead the team for 12 seasons and led them to eight playoff appearances, four NFC titles, and three Super Bowl titles.
In 1996, Gibbs was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. He was one of the winningest coaches in NFL history, at that time having a record of 124 wins and 60 losses, and a post-season record of 16 wins and five losses.
If that were not enough, upon retiring (the first time) from the Redskins, in 1992 Joe focused his full attention to his NASCAR race teams and now boasts three Nascar titles. Driver Bobby Labonte holds one title and Tony Stewart won two championships. And this season is looking strong with his newest drivers, Denny Hamlin, Kyle Bush and Joey Logano. Joey is the youngest driver in Sprint Cup history to win a race at just 19 years old.
So it is certainly an honor and a privilege to know Joe and his wife Pat personally. I first met Joe when the Lake Norman Young Life area was birthed, splitting off of the Charlotte area eleven years ago. My wife and I were honored to chair the adult leadership committee of this non-profit high school youth organzation. www.younglife.org We often held our monthly meeting at the Gibbs home where Joe would be walking around with one of the grand babies on his shoulder with a burp cloth. Joes' son J.D. and wife Melissa joined the committee and also continue to actively support Young Life.
So Joe has been on this grueling whirlwind tour promoting his new book, Game Plan for Life for about a month now. His fierce determination and focus that are reminiscent of his coaching days is apparent as he travels the country getting the word out.
How did this book get started? Thanks for asking. He commissioned a study that essentially asked the question, What are the key topics that will lead people to a "successful" life?
He put together an amazing list of Christian men (Josh McDowell, Chuck Colson, Ron Blue and many others) to write on a variety of topics, which is woven together by Joe's personal testimony. He will also be interviewing for video all of these authors (each committed to do four hours of interviews with Coach Gibbs over the next year). Gibbs considers this his legacy work.
The foreword is aptly written by former Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy who has also won a Super Bowl.
The book is interwoven with many fascinating stories from Joe's colorful career and abruptly begins with the shooting death of Redskins player Sean Taylor.
This is a must read for anyone serious about true success. I highly recommend it. However you can't have the copy that Joe signed for me... unless you name is Dave. Not.
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About the author: David Henning is the President of the Freshstart Company, LLC and has over thirty years experience as a radio talk show host, radio and television copywriter, newspaper editor and public speaker. Dave is a freelance copywriter and has authored hundreds of articles about helping people get a fresh start in life.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Success Is Inside You
SUCCESS IS INSIDE YOU!
Explore the possibilities, unleash the dream within you. Success is not a destination that you arrive at, it’s a journey. Success is not money, wealth and power, it’s being all that you can be with God’s help and becoming all that you can be as you take this journey called life.
“Success is knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential and sowing seeds to benefit others.” John Maxwell1.
KNOWING. Do you know your purpose? Have you written it down? Why are you here? What do you want out of life?
Yogi Berra: ‘If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
2. GROWING. Success comes as the result of growing to our potential. It has been said that potential is God’s gift to us and what we do with it is our gift to Him.
Henry Ford, ”There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than we think we can do. We have nearly limitless potential, yet few ever try to reach it.”T
TIPS: 1. CONCENTRATE ON ONE MAIN GOAL. No one ever reached their potential by scattering themselves in 20 different directions. Reaching your potential requires FOCUS.
2. CONCENTRATE ON CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT.
Resources for your personal growth.
EACH DAY YOU CAN BECOME A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN YOU WERE YESTERDAY.
You will find that what you GET as a result of your growth is not nearly important as what you BECOME along the way. The potential for greatness lies within you!
3.SOWING. Sow seeds that benefit others. Without that, the success journey can be a lonely and shallow experience. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give!
Zig Ziglar: “Help enough other people get what they want and you will end up getting what you want.”
There is tremendous gratification and personal reward that cannot be measured in helping people. That’s why I am committed to helping you succeed.
In the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC…there's a video of speech given by President John F. Kennedy to congress, on May 25th, 1961. It records the stirring words of an impossible goal that stunned scientists and the nation.
He said, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before the decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.”
IT WAS RIDICULOUS, WILD, IMPOSSIBLE!
Even some people at NASA thought it couldn’t be done. The technology required to make it happen didn’t even exist, and they weren’t sure that it could exist.
Yet, NASA, despite all the doubts, took on the challenge and on July 16th , 1969, Apollo Eleven lifted off from Pad 39 at Kennedy Space Center and began a journey of 244,930 miles to the moon.
Four days later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, Jr. landed the lunar module, Eagle on the surface of the moon...and 500 million people watched on television as Armstrong took his first step into the powder fine gray dust of the moon and uttered those famous words,
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
WHAT HAPPENED? In the blink of an eye, John F. Kennedy’s speech made a lunar landing change from an impossible dream to an obtainable target.
We didn’t have the technology to do it, but it became POSSIBLE because of a change in
ATTITUDE. WHEN OUR ATTITUDES OUTDISTANCE OUR ABILITIES, EVEN THE IMPOSSIBLE BECOMES POSSIBLE!
Yogi Berra, “Life is like baseball. It’s 95 per cent mental and the other half is physical.”
Sign in office “YESTERDAY ENDED LAST NIGHT.”
“ONE THING I DO. Forgetting what is behind, and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me.” (Philippians 3:13)
Sign over locker room door of Phoenix Suns. A quote from Bill Russell, famous center for Boston Celtics: “The game is scheduled and we have to play it. WE MIGHT AS WELL WIN.”
During Russell’s time with the Celtics they won 11 NBA Title Championships in 13 years.”
You have a life to live, a mission to accomplish.
My question to you today is, what are you going to do with it? WE MIGHT AS WELL WIN!
Explore the possibilities, unleash the dream within you. Success is not a destination that you arrive at, it’s a journey. Success is not money, wealth and power, it’s being all that you can be with God’s help and becoming all that you can be as you take this journey called life.
“Success is knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential and sowing seeds to benefit others.” John Maxwell1.
KNOWING. Do you know your purpose? Have you written it down? Why are you here? What do you want out of life?
Yogi Berra: ‘If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
2. GROWING. Success comes as the result of growing to our potential. It has been said that potential is God’s gift to us and what we do with it is our gift to Him.
Henry Ford, ”There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than we think we can do. We have nearly limitless potential, yet few ever try to reach it.”T
TIPS: 1. CONCENTRATE ON ONE MAIN GOAL. No one ever reached their potential by scattering themselves in 20 different directions. Reaching your potential requires FOCUS.
2. CONCENTRATE ON CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT.
Resources for your personal growth.
EACH DAY YOU CAN BECOME A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN YOU WERE YESTERDAY.
You will find that what you GET as a result of your growth is not nearly important as what you BECOME along the way. The potential for greatness lies within you!
3.SOWING. Sow seeds that benefit others. Without that, the success journey can be a lonely and shallow experience. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give!
Zig Ziglar: “Help enough other people get what they want and you will end up getting what you want.”
There is tremendous gratification and personal reward that cannot be measured in helping people. That’s why I am committed to helping you succeed.
In the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC…there's a video of speech given by President John F. Kennedy to congress, on May 25th, 1961. It records the stirring words of an impossible goal that stunned scientists and the nation.
He said, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before the decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.”
IT WAS RIDICULOUS, WILD, IMPOSSIBLE!
Even some people at NASA thought it couldn’t be done. The technology required to make it happen didn’t even exist, and they weren’t sure that it could exist.
Yet, NASA, despite all the doubts, took on the challenge and on July 16th , 1969, Apollo Eleven lifted off from Pad 39 at Kennedy Space Center and began a journey of 244,930 miles to the moon.
Four days later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, Jr. landed the lunar module, Eagle on the surface of the moon...and 500 million people watched on television as Armstrong took his first step into the powder fine gray dust of the moon and uttered those famous words,
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
WHAT HAPPENED? In the blink of an eye, John F. Kennedy’s speech made a lunar landing change from an impossible dream to an obtainable target.
We didn’t have the technology to do it, but it became POSSIBLE because of a change in
ATTITUDE. WHEN OUR ATTITUDES OUTDISTANCE OUR ABILITIES, EVEN THE IMPOSSIBLE BECOMES POSSIBLE!
Yogi Berra, “Life is like baseball. It’s 95 per cent mental and the other half is physical.”
Sign in office “YESTERDAY ENDED LAST NIGHT.”
“ONE THING I DO. Forgetting what is behind, and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me.” (Philippians 3:13)
Sign over locker room door of Phoenix Suns. A quote from Bill Russell, famous center for Boston Celtics: “The game is scheduled and we have to play it. WE MIGHT AS WELL WIN.”
During Russell’s time with the Celtics they won 11 NBA Title Championships in 13 years.”
You have a life to live, a mission to accomplish.
My question to you today is, what are you going to do with it? WE MIGHT AS WELL WIN!
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