I set a goal this year to read fifty books. I’m up to twenty-eight books and seven ahead of schedule. That is a lot of books and most of them are nonfiction. Here is the challenge: reading more books means there is more to remember. Since I have increased the number of books I read,…
Archives for June 2018
Lessons from the First 5k Run of the Year
I set a goal this year to run a 5k under 23:00. My first 5k time this year was 24:57. I have a long way to go! Here are a few lessons I learned from this year’s first race: Don’t each anything for breakfast that will get stuck in your teeth (berries). Map out your…
The One Non-negotiable in Urban Meyer’s Morning Routine
People seem to be enthralled by the morning routines of successful people. When it comes to football, Coach Urban Meyer is as successful as it gets. What is the one non-negotiable part of his morning routine? He does a 30-minute personal Bible study at 6:00am every day. He said on Lewis Howes’s podcast that if…
Interval Training: How to Get Faster at Anything
When I was a track coach, I designed most of my practices to focus on interval training. Instead of running the entire distance of the races my runners participated in, they would run only a fraction of those distances at speeds that would total a personal record. The idea is that you train your body…
The Way History Should Be Written
I’m a big fan of historian David McCullough. I admire his approach to writing. I am inspired by his story of how he became a writer. I will forever think of his voice when I think about the Civil War. Most of all, I love the way he writes history. Most of my experience with history,…
