Business and Football: How’s Your Week 2 Going?

Game 2 of the NFL season looms extra large. I am fascinated by a statistic quoted on the tv show, ESPN First Take (which is how I start my weekday mornings) by host Dana Jacobson (a fellow NJG– Nice Jewish Girl from the Midwest, and a GREAT sports commentator). It appears week 2 is crucial:…

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Football Inspiration: Get Your Passion, Folks, from the NFL!

Football is such inspiration…ladies, there is so much to LOVE about watching football, it’s not even funny!  If nothing else, you HAD to love Head Coach Harbaugh of the Baltimore Ravens being all fatherly, and KISSING running back Ray Rice on the head!  I’m telling you, the NFL brings out the beast in men, but…

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Business and Football: Do Businesses Experience the Super Bowl Hangover?

NFL Football is back!  And am I happy!  I bid adieu to my family (brother, sister) last Sunday for all future Sundays.  Told them the next Sunday they would see me without a TV screen in front of my face would be next February.  Super Bowl Sunday is my annual Super Bowl/Birthday Bash for Family,…

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Women Business Owners: LOVIN’ Football!

Women-owned businesses and star football teams. . .Both groups work their butts off, find ways to win even when the score is against them, and never quit.  I encourage women to WATCH football this season—college and NFL—to be inspired. Women business owners ROCK!  Just got back from the Manchester Grand Hyatt, site of this year’s…

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Thanks to supporters of “Necessary Roughness”

So I get this great comment on my Facebook Wall from Chrissy Carew, who sought me out because a friend told her about my book, “Necessary Roughness:  New Rules for the Contact Sport of Life,” and Chrissy is a “football girl.”  Besides being a master personal and business coach www.coachcarew.com , she founded another website,…

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Women: Do You Play Fantasy Football? Why?

Over 18 million people engage in Fantasy Football in this country.  Some of them are women. Can women be happy (fulfilled) playing Fantasy Football?  This woman cannot.  My brother-in-law sweetly invited me to join his “league”—he has 14 men and one woman so far, and I turned him down.  He responded, “maybe down the road.”…

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Leadership Lessons: Peyton Manning Inspires Again!

When it comes to leadership lessons, Peyton, Peyton—you’ve done it again—you’ve inspired me!  I dedicated my book Necessary Roughness to you, because you inspired the first words, “The intention to get to a certain place makes you unstoppable.”  That was in week 5 of the 2008 season, when you were unstoppable, and led your Colts…

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Tough Coaches Rule!

Tough coaches are hiring and letting go—that’s what the NFL teams are doing with free agent players–in fast-forward mode.  We, here in the real world, can’t do it as quickly with as much money at stake.  But, there are parallels and lessons that are applicable and valuable.  Here’s one of them. When I was getting…

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