Mar
17
2018
Everyone delights in and appreciates an encouraging thank you shout out.
Alaska Airlines deserves a Fred Crowell - NBC Camps shoutout.
THANK YOU ALASKA AIRLINES - Excellence Award
First flight - basketball coach at UAF - 1965
800,000 mile+ flown
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Mar
16
2018
So vividly the memory of a bad brag rests in my memory bank. It was my 9th-grade year; basketball was the brag. On the ride home Dad, teammate, and his father listened to my bad brag about my great...
Mar
13
2018
Perfection is a noble concept yet it is a fallacious possibility.
Coaches often talk about perfect practice. Really!? What is so admirable about perfection?
Under close examination, the pursuit of perfection actually becomes a deterrent to exceptional performance.
Leaders who demand...
Mar
12
2018
The academy award winning, best picture you have seen in your lifetime, is you. You are the screenwriter, the producer, director, lead actor, and in charge of promotion and sales.
The movie is called, This is Your Life! The really...
Mar
11
2018
Thoughts become words, words become actions, actions become habits, and habits become your destiny.
I remember so clearly an experience in the early years of marriage. After enjoying a fabulous dinner Susie prepared, I was lying on the couch. Susie asked...
Mar
05
2018
The detachment principle is a life skill of letting go with ease and grace yet maintaining zest and a drive to live life fully.
All of life has a beginning and an ending.
There is first the...
Mar
02
2018
Do you want single or double knocks?
Every time the aspiring basketball youth yells back to Coach Crowell, “give me double knocks, Coach!!!!!”
Coach Crowell makes two-fisted fake binoculars and points to the action. Without exception, the hoopster either gives a great performance...
Mar
01
2018
The skill to know when the body and the mind are telling us the truth is equally important as knowing when the body and the mind are telling us a lie.
Harmony is when the body and mind speak...
Feb
28
2018
Looking back over your entire lifetime, was there a single experience that would be classified as a crucible event?
One of the definitions of the word crucible is the overcoming a trial or difficult circumstance.
The dictionary uses an example of...
Feb
27
2018
Cain, what have you done? Why is your countenance so downcast? What did you do that makes your face so dark?
The eyes are lights to the soul. Do you have your lights on, is a frequent question asked to the youth...
