Coach "J"

I shared this tonight at Infuse, our net for 18-20 somethings. It is a great list, enjoy and share. 11 Rules on Marriage You Won't Learn in School by Dennis Rainey For many years, e-mails have circulated the country with the outline of a speech attributed to Microsoft founder Bill Gates titled "11 Things You Will Not Learn in School About Jobs." It turns out that Gates never wrote these words or delivered the speech--it was all taken from an article written by Charles J. Sykes in 1996. And it really doesn't matter that Gates wasn't involved, because the piece does a great job of unmasking how feel-good, politically-correct teachings have created a generation of kids with a false concept of reality. I thought I'd not only pass on these rules, but also make a few of my own--on marriage. First, here are the 11 rules of life that you won't learn in school: Rule 1: Life is not fair--get used to it! Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The w...

The "Auburn" Fire Series In blog entry number one, we talked about moving our back to the pistol look. As I stated, this turned about to be a great move for us. In the next couple of days, I plan to get up some clips of Veer out of the Pistol which I wrote about in that entry. But maybe our best addition this year was our "fire" series. What we were looking for and what we actually ended up doing were two different things. We wanted to add a "fire" series, which for us would be a formation completely different than our normal sets, with a few base plays, that we would run after a big play or as a change of pace. In my search for such a series, I came across the video below. As you can see we liked what the backfield action did to the defense forcing them to stand still and "find" the ball. So we took the video and drew up our "fire" series. As stated we were going to use it sparingly after big plays and as a change of pace. The only thi...

Practical Take Home Tips for Small Behavior Changes 1. Seek and Surrender 2. Sweat 3. Sleep 4. Simplify 5. Solitude and Silence 6. Smile 7. Sweep 8. Slow Down 9. Shut Off 10. Sabbath

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