Blog 16 Week 3 Regular Season Freshman Year This last Monday night after another pleasant conversation at the front desk with Tony, the former state champ wrestler turned security guard, I headed into the school’s back gym to try to catch the last few minutes of Dakota’s practice. I noticed two things when I got …
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Blog 15 Week 2 Regular Season Freshman Year Rushed over to pick up Dakota tonight from wrestling practice. I figured I’d get to see the last ten minutes of this Monday night practice, but unfortunately, I missed it. Dang! I also missed out on finding time this past weekend to get a workout in …
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Blog 10 Preseason Week 10 We’re coming up on Halloween, and I don’t know where the time has gone. It’s dark and cold in the mornings now when I leave for work. And it’s dark and cold at night when I get home. My son Dakota has improved in wrestling during this preseason beyond my …
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Blog 9 Preseason Week 9 My wife and I are a little frustrated right now. When I feel like this, I try to remind myself that Dakota is still only 14-years old. And… it took me 48-years to become the man that I have slowly and sometimes painfully become today. Progress is like …
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His icy cold stare His fierce determined look He’s fearless I admire that; he drives me crazy He’s 3-feet tall and 30 lbs His small bark resonates, “No, I won’t!” My bigger bark echoes, “Yes, you will!” He’s fearless I admire that; it drives me crazy I engulf him in my shadow again …
Blog 8 Preseason Week 8 Wow! This week is off to another crazy start. Dakota and I snuck in a quick drilling session with some instruction that quickly wore me out late Sunday night. After about 15 minutes, my shirt was soaked, and I felt exhausted. I was a bit concerned because I shouldn’t have …
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Pre-Season Practice Blog 2 “Dad, can you bring me to your old friend John Knapp’s to wrestle before the regular season begins?” asked my boy Dakota. “Wow! You want to go big time here with KT KIDZ Wrestling! I guess you’re really serious about this wrestling thing.” I responded to my son Dakota as …
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A Unique Teen Leadership Blog Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.” Her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) the 32nd President of the United States of America said, “Above all try something.” So, what do these quotes, or words of wisdom, from one of America’s most famous …
A Unique Teen Leadership Blog! We have all heard people complain from time to time about all that they have been through and how life isn’t fair, right? Listen, what we have been through, especially if it’s bad, does not define us as a person. It may influence us, but to be honest with you, …
Borrow this book if you have to! Borrow the information inside of the book if you are smart! And make it yours if you are wise! Todd Rose’s book, The End of Average shows overs and over again that most of our social and institutional systems over the last hundred years or …
