Tag: leadership
Black History Month: Continuing the Conversation
I recently asked a CEO who is a good friend of mine, “What are you doing for Black History Month?”
How to Say No to Family
When you are successful, you want to give back to the people responsible for your success, but sometimes you have to say ‘no’ to family, even when it’s tough.
Start the New Year Right: Basic Budgeting to Free Up Your Money
There is nothing people talk about more and do less than budgeting.
4 Money-Saving Tips for Creating a Life Full of “Yes”
As an athlete, I have focused on building almost every muscle in my body — but I had to teach myself to build my money-saving muscle.
When Sh!# Happens: How to Stay Strong During Disaster and Bad News
Multiple times in my life, I’ve received bad news. The death of my grandmother. My father needing a kidney transplant. Being released (that means fired) from an NFL team.
How to Confront Your Critics Like a Champ
It was my day off, in the season when we eventually won the Super Bowl, and I was playing with my kids. Enjoying my life. In the middle of family time, I got a phone call from a friend who said, “Man I just heard you got benched.”
The 5 Stages of Championship Team Development
What’s the character of your team? Five and a half weeks into our Super Bowl season we had a guy “join up” to replace a player who we all really liked. Do we treat the new player with disdain because he came in and disrupted our team? Who’s going to sit next to him at…