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Hurdling Adversity: 1 Minute to Change A Life

A few years ago a friend invited me to read Mitch Albom’s book “The Five People You Meet in Heaven”. The book is about people we interact with everyday who have had profound impacts on our life.  Some we know and recognize right away and others, who may come in our lives quickly and leave just as fast, are less recognizable. My take away from the book is that we never know...

HOPE and PEACE Through Sport

Hope: Hope is the belief that circumstances in the future will be better. Last year I asked the following question on Twitter, “Would you ever want to sit down and break bread with the person who hurt you or who altered your life significantly by their actions.  But, in doing so also put you on a path for redefining who you were? When I had two legs and was a soldier in the U.S. Army I...

Inspiration from 2008 Olympian and Silver Medalist Emily Silver

Emily Silver (on Twitter @Emily_Silver) never says quit. It is just not in her vocabulary! At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Silver earned a silver medal swimming in the heats of the 4×100 m freestyle.  But little did she know it was a long painful journey to reach the pool deck on that day. Her story of hurdling adversity, like many of us, are filled with highs, lows and everything in between....

Paralympian Matt Stutzman aka The Armless Archer (What?)

Matt Stutzman can change a tire with his bare feet in under 30 seconds!  No Joke! So what inspires this young rising Paralympian? Well I caught up with Matt at the TeamUSA BP event in Naperville and asked him. Check out today’s inspirational clip at http://youtu.be/VznESBXR0Dw.

Lesson from a Wind Miller at a Windmill in Holland

I was in Holland a few weeks ago and had the opportunity to speak with a real life windmiller. I thought that wind mills in Holland were used for grinding grain or creating some type of power. Boy was I way off base. The lowest lands in Holland sit about 4 meter below sea level and each of the windmills was used to pump the water out and into dykes.  In 1633 there were about 52 windmills in...