All Greatness...

Has or had a beginning...which was started by one thought.

Walt Disney, had a dream, made it a vision, and convinced others.

Ray Kroc, selling his multi-mixer for milkshakes, to the McDonald
brothers, thought it was incredible that someone had the volume of
customers that they had to make so many milk shakes at one time, and
the rest is history.

Richard Branson didn't stop at his first successful business venture
when he published a magazine at called Student, at 16. He went on and
built his Virgin empire, with seemingly unrelated business ventures.

All started with one thought, and common denominator in greatness, is
that they heard the skeptics but didn't let the skeptics get in their
way.

Yours in "One Thought" - Coach

The seed of Greatness...

Is in us all.

What comes of our seed of Greatness is how we "water" it.

We can "water" it by giving, positive thinking and doing, helping
others, being a mentor, making the right choices and more of the same,
which brings out the finest growth of any seed.

Or we can water it with selfishness, negative thinking and doing,
taking from others, being a poor role model, making poor choices and
more of the same, which will produce a withered weed, with no sense of
reason.

Yours in "Proper Watering" - Coach

We are Powerful beyond measure.

My friend and mentor Tom Mendoza, Vice Chairman of Network Appliance (#1 on Forbe's list of 100 Best Companies to work for) delivered a Powerful speech at one of the companies yearly sales conventions...

It was titled "The Power of One".

All Greatness starts with "One"...one Vision, one individual, one focus,
one goal.

In understanding the "Power of One", we can create anything, and with
the attraction and focus of the "Power of One", other people and other
things, can unite in the same direction - creating a domino effect that
can achieve or conquer whatever is started by "One"...

So let's embrace the "Power of One" and the Greatness that follows,
allowing the process to unfold.

Yours in the "Power of One" - Coach

Your "Sweet Spot"...

Is then transferred to your "Wheelhouse".

Ir's describing anything that is coming toward you, that you can see as
presented to you in slow motion (sweet spot), entering your "space" for
you to do what you do best, in total control (wheelhouse).

In baseball, a batter has their own individual, sweet spot that
activates their wheelhouse, it may be a pitch thrown down the pipe, a
little low and inside, and then all pistons fire, by reflex, and the
balls sails deep over the center field wall.

Just something about a sweet spot that puts the rest into motion, achieving greatness.

BTW - We also have a sweet spot in our thoughts, that get our wheelhouse turning, big time, in the right way.

Yours in "Find it" - Coach

In business...

A common mistake that is made, is that they advertise when things are
down, in an attempt to bring in more business.

But in reality, when business is down, working on the structure and
function of the business is what is called for, not advertising.

Advertising is to be done when the business is doing great, that way
they are advertising greatness and it will feed on greatness.

Look at it this way - Would you advertise yourself, when things aren't
going so well? Or would you work on yourself to get better, and then
advertise the better you?

Yours in Thought - Coach

We may never live...

In a Perfect World, but we can sure make our Lives Great.

No matter what happens around us, we have the choice to focus on the
greatness around us or the imperfections.

Perfection is actually over rated anyway, nothing is perfect and we
shouldn't expect them to be.

So if things are perfect, or going perfectly in our lives - It's OK,
that's just the way things go...it's what we focus on that makes the
difference.

Yours in "Proper Focus" - Coach

Stand Tall and Walk Proud?

Why not? - There are a Ton of benefits.

Firstly, when we have stood tall and walked proud in the past, it's
probably because we have just done something great, and our body is
showing off a bit...so doing it in advance will demand future actions
of greatness.

Secondly, when we stand tall and walk proud, we expand our internal
organs and engage our muscles and joints to the position that they are
supposed to be in, allowing the body to "flow" as it is made to do...Plus it's a great change from slumping over or slouching.

So always remember, standing tall and walking proud gives us the
one-two punch that our lives and bodies need, while giving us an emotional and
physical boost as well.

Yours in a "Proud Posture" - Coach

As We Grow Older...

We inevitably lose our shape and looks, but we still can hang on to our
"bragging rights"!

And 'bragging rights" come from our experiences where we have taken
things to the "Next Level".

So what we have done, or are currently doing, that can "brag on" is key.

In our understanding that mediocrity doesn't have a lot of content for
the future, we need to excel in what we do and how we do it for our
future stories to become worth listening to.

Some of us have glided a bit up to now, but there is always today - to
start your own past, that is worthy for tales of Greatness.

Yours in Excelling - Coach