Where Are You On Your Team’s Depth Chart?
I am somewhere between “might play and won’t play.” My team is getting increasingly stronger as new, experienced players enter my community and current players improve at a rate faster than I can improve. So playing against other clubs is uncertain. It is what it is....
Do You Underestimate Your Opponent?
I learned an important tennis lesson yesterday, one that equally applies to life and one that I should have learned many times before: “Don’t underestimate your opponent.” The story line is so simple. I arrived at the courts with a touch of arrogance after some very...
Do You Trust Your Partner?
You’re up at the net and a ball zings by you, headed down the middle—do you risk lunging for it or letting it pass to your partner? Or a lob begins to float over your head—do you go for it, even awkwardly, or will your partner cover it? At my level of play there’s a...
Focus On The Solution
As I watched my wife’s tennis team taking practice with the team’s coach, prior to a morning match, I noticed the disconnect between what the coach wanted the players to focus on and what they primarily focused on. And you guessed it; they focused on errors. The...
The Tennis Mountaintop
The “tennis mountaintop” is a metaphorical expression of the highest level of tennis enlightenment. What/where could this be? How is it to be attained? I don’t think it’s about the highest, ultimate success such as number of victories and worldwide ranking. I don’t...“Lessons From The Helm”
This is my first published book.
“Lessons” presents life’s big lessons from the helm of a very small boat and details a 3-day sailing regatta in which my son and I competed and capsized.
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Life’s big lessons
“Destroy These False Gods
My latest book. What false gods are vying for your soul? Discover 101 false gods that must be destroyed before they destroy you. Available on Amazon.com
