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Hamilton rides early lead to victory over Eastlake at Brothers in Arms Classic
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Originally published: Aug 31, 2013 - 12:00 am
Photo by Kirt WinterSAN DIEGO - It sure looked like the 28-0 halftime lead that Hamilton (Chandler, Ariz.) had built would be plenty enough.
Hamilton's Derek Andersen closes in on an Eastlake ballcarrier Saturday at the Brothers in Arms Classic.
Turns out, that insurance was nearly put to the test.
After a dominant display Saturday in the first half against Eastlake (Chula Vista, Calif.), the heralded Huskies defense showed some cracks in the Brothers in Arms Classic at Cathedral Catholic High. But that halftime lead was large enough to allow the visitors to head back to the Grand Canyon State with a 28-17 triumph.
Photo by Kirt WinterThe No. 13 team in the MaxPreps Xcellent 25 National Football Rankings has a stacked defense loaded with experienced players, and the signature moment for the unit came in the final seconds of the third quarter. Eastlake was threatening to score its first touchdown of the contest and had four chances from about a yard away to get the ball in the end zone.
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The Titans never got there.
A swarm of five (maybe even six or seven) Huskies led by Santana Sterling collaborated on a gang tackle to stuff the scoring chance. Through three quarters, the unit only yielded a 33-yard field goal by Aeden Johnson, but 14 more points in the fourth quarter for Eastlake dampened the enthusiasm.
"With how good our defense is, there's no way we should give up 17 points. Us giving up 17, that's unacceptable," said star defensive end Qualen Cunningham. "We definitely came out stronger in the first half. We always had it in check, though. I thought we regulated the game the way we wanted it to be played."
The offense did its part in a second-quarter explosion that saw Hamilton post three touchdowns. After Tyrell Smith's five-yard touchdown in the first quarter, Sam Sasso found Elijah Williams for a four-yard slant good for a touchdown with 6:35 left in the first half. A little less than four minutes later, Sasso found Chad Nelson on a post pattern from 10 yards away for another touchdown and then the defense came up huge with 39 seconds left when Michael Ureel forced a fumble on a sack and Garrett Rand pounced on the ball at the 12-yard line. On the next play, Williams scored his second touchdown by taking a reverse to the end zone.
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That offensive success ended up being the cushion the Huskies needed. Hamilton coach Steve Belles said the entire team - not just the defense - regressed in the second half.
Photo by Kirt Winter"We didn't play well in the second half. But we did get a big-enough lead to hold on to win," he said.
Eastlake's Isiah Olave hauls in an interception.
Eastlake's resurgence came thanks to a 35-yard passing touchdown from Zachary Lawler to Isiah Olave, which saw Olave catch a short pass and jet down the sideline past all potential tacklers with 9:29 left in the game. Isaiah Strayhorn tallied Eastlake's other touchdown with a 19-yard scoring run that featured some very nifty footwork to stay up.
Belles and the Huskies could have started to panic. But having that defense - and that insurance - assuaged any worries for the team that has played in the state title game in each of the past five seasons.
"It's a senior-laden group that's been around, been through some stuff. They knew what to do," he said. "Encouragement only goes so far. You've got to go out there and make some plays. We made some at the end but in crucial sitruaitons (Eastlake) kept drives alive."
Eastlake tallied 172 yards on the night, and Hamilton rolled up 383.
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University students examine New York's largest agricultural sector
In April 2013, Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies hosted the university's first Mock US Senate Hearing on the Clean Water Act. Now we're at it again, this time with the lens focused in on NY State. Inspired by recent adjustments meant to relax pollution protections and allow for larger farms, we are setting the students to the task of examining the controversial future of the State's evolving dairy industry.
It's more than a glass of milk. Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies invites you to join us as Pace University students gather to ask our mock legislators the tough questions on the future of the New York dairy industry: How do we meet the challenges of increasing farm production, protecting our water, reconnecting people with healthy food, keeping small farms economically viable, and ensuring the ethical treatment of agricultural animals in an expanding industry?
New York State Assembly Mock Hearing:
Building a New York Dairy Industry that is Economically, Environmentally, and Ethically Sound
Friday, April 25, 2014 (9:00am – 2:45pm)
New York State Judicial Institute, Pace Law School, White Plains
In Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies' second annual Mock Environmental Hearing, six teams of undergraduate students step into the role of "expert witnesses" in a joint hearing of the New York State Assembly Standing Committees on Environmental Conservation and Agriculture. With the guidance of the Pace Law School students assigned as their legal counsel, a faculty advisor, and Pace Academy staff, they have set to task on analyzing the future of the largest agricultural sector in New York: the dairy industry.
On April 25th, our student activists will present testimony that scrutinizes current conditions and makes recommendations on how NY can best create policies that will ensure humane treatment of animals, affordable and healthy products, vibrant farming communities, and the protection and enhancement of the natural environment and economy of the State.
Participants represent the myriad subjects at stake, including business, public health, environmental protection, animal welfare, challenges to small farmers, and the role of higher education.
Presiding over the hearing will be a panel of mock Assembly members – esteemed experts in public service, law, policy, agriculture, and the environment:
- Hon. Glen T. Bruening - Judge of the New York State Court of Claims; Former NYS Assistant Counsel to the Governor
- Karen Doyle – Attorney at Law; Former Counsel at NYC Law Department
- Kate Fitzpatrick – Counsel, WilmerHale; Member of the NYC Bar Association Animal Law Committee
- Christopher Malone, PhD – Academic Chair of Political Science, Pace University
- Patrick Manning – Cofounder and Treasurer of Hudson Valley Fresh; Former NYS Assemblyman
- David Yassky – Dean, Pace Law School; Former Member of the New York City Council
Please join us this Friday, April 25th, and share this invitation with your colleagues, students and classmates. The hearing is open to the Pace Community and the public.
2013's winners: The Public Health Team
The mock hearing will begin promptly at 9:30am with registration openning at 9:00am. The hearing will be held at the New York State Judicial Institute located on Pace University's Law School campus in White Plains, NY (Building 6 on Pace Law School's web campus map – a PDF campus map is also available on the website). The Judicial Institute's main lobby is located on the ground floor.
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A memorial service for Calvin Ledbetter, a former Arkansas lawmaker and Professor Emeritus at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, is scheduled for Friday.
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Ledbetter died this past weekend. He was 84 years old.
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If you ever have to be hospitalized, you'll certainly want to be cared for at a place that delivers quality health care using the latest technology available. That's precisely what patients find when they are admitted to a UPMC hospital.
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SmartRoom brings all essential data related to your care to your bedside. Its computerized software programs give caregivers fingertip access to all the information essential to your care — from your electronic medical records to the tests you'll need that day.
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3 Keys to Successful Crisis Management for Self-Storage Operations
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|Posted on: 05/02/2013
By Lucien G. Canton
When the first hijacked plane slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, Robert Scott, president and chief operating officer of Morgan Stanley-Dean Whittier, was at 3 World Trade Center addressing 400 members of the National Association of Business Economists. Scott evacuated the building just in time to watch a second aircraft slam into the South Tower, which he knew housed his company offices and several thousand employees.
By 9:30 a.m. he and his senior executives had convened at a backup site that became their command center. The decisions made by Scott and his team that day would make Morgan Stanley a case study in successful crisis management and would enhance Scott's reputation as a leader.
What's the difference between a Morgan Stanley and less successful companies? Why do some organizations come out of crisis with enhanced reputations while others may not even survive as a business? While the reasons are many and varied, it frequently comes down to three main areas:
These failures are so common that they suggest the following three keys to successful crisis management.
Recognize You Are Your Own Worst Problem
Too often in preparing for crisis, people tend to ignore the human factor. Understanding human nature and how people react to crisis is one of the fundamental keys to crisis management. No matter how much information on risks they're given, people don't believe a crisis will happen to them. They may understand it intellectually, but viscerally, they don't think it will happen. This hampers their willingness to prepare.
When confronted with a crisis, a person's first reaction is denial. They often don't recognize a disaster is occurring. This leads to a hesitation to act. There's also a tendency to normalize crisis, that is, to see what one expects to see rather than what's actually occurring. It's easy to misinterpret or completely miss indicators that a crisis is imminent or occurring. These indicators may be obvious after the fact but are easily missed during the event.
Good Information Is Essential to Good Decision-Making
The second phase people experience when confronted with a crisis is deliberation—the need to seek corroboration about what has occurred or is occurring, and to consider courses of action. There are, however, problems inherent in this process. Most information available in the early stages of a crisis is fragmentary, contradictory and unreliable. There can also be a considerable volume of information available, most of it not really helpful. Sorting through this mess requires an understanding of what information is important and why it's needed by decision-makers.
A common failing in crisis is the tendency to seek only information that confirms what the crisis team thinks is happening or expects to see happening. It, therefore, misses the true nature of the crisis and makes decisions that can be counterproductive or flat out wrong.
The paradox of information collection is decision-making is improved with the more information you have; however, there will never be a situation where you have all the information needed. At some point, you'll have to make decisions based on incomplete information. So collection cannot become an end in itself that delays decision-making.
Act Decisively
Overcoming denial and moving through deliberation leads to action. In most cases, the quicker you're seen to act and provide information on the crisis and your actions, the more likely you are to mitigate the effects of the catastrophe. Effective action depends on two elements:
Surviving a crisis requires you quickly recognize and accept it's occurring, gather sufficient information to make decisions regarding the crisis, and move quickly to implement those decisions. Incorporating these three keys into your preparations for crisis may not guarantee success, but they'll certainly go a long way to preventing failures.
Lucien G. Canton is a consultant specializing in preparing managers to lead better in crisis by understanding the human factors often overlooked in crisis planning. A popular speaker and lecturer, he's the author of "Emergency Management: Concepts and Strategies for Effective Programs." For more information, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com ; visit www.luciencanton.com .


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select a few promising startup management teams, and invest $100,000 in each company in exchange for a 10 percent share of the company's common stock. Russian billionaire Yuri Milner also will invest in the startups, which also can tap as much as $20,000 in debt from Silicon Valley Bank.
—AT&T said it has hired Eric Topol, a San Diego cardiologist, digital healthcare leader, and director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, to serve as the wireless carrier's chief medical advisor. Topol, who will continue in his various roles at Scripps Health and The Scripps Research Institute, will help AT&T move its digital healthcare technologies into the market.
—MD Revolution, a San Diego healthtech startup, said it closed a $7 million Series B round of equity financing that came entirely from individual investors. The round brings MD Revolution's total venture funding to about $8 million since the company was founded three years ago. MD Revolution has developed online technology to help people improve their health and cardiovascular fitness.
—San Diego's Sorrento Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SRNE) said it has expanded its rights to a formulation of the anticancer drug paclitaxel that is intended to increase cellular absorption. Sorrento said it added exclusive rights to polymeric micellar paclitaxel in Australia, Canada, and Mexico from South Korea's Samyang Biopharmaceuticals. The company already has exclusive rights to the drug in the United States and 27 countries of the European Union.


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I saw two rabbits doing some sort of a mating dance or game. One would stand in front of the other. Then the first bunny would run up to the second bunny, and then the second rabbit would jump straight up. Then the first bunny would run under the second one. They did it over and over again. What were they doing?
Julia Brogle, age 9
Pine River
Your bunny couple probably was preparing to mate, says DNR wildlife specialist Bob Welsh. Before eastern cottontails breed, the male chases the female, then both take turns hopping straight up into the air. Eastern cottontails commonly produce three to four litters per year. Learn more about Minnesota's rabbits and hares.
Midday last summer I was pulling up to Highway 71 just south of Bemidji when a large, dark animal darted across the road. My first thought was, that's one big skunk! Then I realized, whoa, that's not a skunk, that's a wolverine! It had the classic chocolate brown coat with the tawny side markings and big feet, broad head. What is the wolverine range in Minnesota and how often are they seen?
Al McDaniel
If what you spotted was indeed a wolverine, you are one lucky guy. According to DNR furbearer/wolf biologist John Erb, there are no resident populations of wolverines in Minnesota. However, it is possible that a wandering wolverine shows up once in awhile. The nearest established wolverine community is several hundred miles north of the U.S.-Canada border.
When I put shiner minnows and fathead minnows in the same minnow bucket, the shiners die. Why does this happen? Do the fatheads exude a substance in the water toxic to the shiner minnows?
Thomas Evans
DNR aquatic biologist Nick Proulx thinks the issue is oxygen. Fatheads can tolerate lower oxygen levels than golden shiners can, so if they're all in a bucket using oxygen, the shiners will become stressed and die first. Proulx says shiners also seem to fare worse than other bait species when they are handled, so stress from being touched might be a factor too.
Sometimes in late summer we find walkingsticks clinging to the warm side of our cabin. What brings them out? What do they eat? Does anything eat them?
Darlene Gustafson
Walkingsticks (Diapheromera femorata) hatch from tiny eggs in the spring. The nymphs, which look like tiny green adults, eat the leaves of plants such as roses, beaked hazel, and strawberries. In August they become adults, which feed on deciduous trees. Robins and other birds will eat walkingsticks -- if they can find them. When a walkingstick feels threatened, it freezes with its front legs stretched out in front of it, making it look almost exactly like a twig.
In the past couple of years, I have noticed a scarcity of robins in my neighborhood. At the same time, the population of crows has increased. Are the crows eating the robins' eggs and young?
Bruce Baker
Could be. Crows eat all kinds of things, including other birds' babies. The reality is that most robins die one way or another before they reach adulthood. But if you'd like to discourage the crows from hanging out in your part of town, DNR nongame wildlife program supervisor Carrol Henderson suggests you avoid using bird feeders that provide them easy access to food, and keep nearby parking lots free of edible trash and fast-food dumpsters that make a neighborhood choice habitat for cruising corvids.
I have been told to stop filling my hummingbird feeder in the fall so I don't interrupt the natural migration of hummingbirds. Is this true? When is the right time to take it down?
Brandon Kuehn
St. Louis Park
The notion that a feeder will keep hummingbirds from migrating has been around for a long time, but it's just not true, says DNR wildlife educator Jan Welsh. The birds will appreciate the extra energy for their long journey. Welsh suggests you keep the feeder up until about a week has gone by without visitors.
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Mm.... Red velvet cake. Reminds me of Easter. I'll have to post about that when Spring rolls around.January 4, 2008 at 2:32 p.m.
I love how food brings up all kinds of fond memories. Just the other day my mom and I were looking through a family cookbook and found my great-grandmother's sugar cookie recipe written in her handwriting. I think that book's going to become something of a holy kitchen relic now.
I miss Mimi's sugar cookies.
Mine is Red Velvet Cake, a dessert my mother has made (and her mother before her) since I was old enough to remember. That's such a special thing about food, isn't it, all the memories tied up with certain dishes.January 2, 2008 at 10:01 p.m.


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I want me to want You.
yes. I did just sing that to the tune of a Cheap Trick song.
But I'm talking to God:
Lord, I want to wake up every morning aware of an innate desire for intimacy with YOU.
but I don't.
I call myself a Christian.
but I can't remember ever, in my entire life, delighting in ONLY God.
In my memory and conscious understanding, I have always…
tied my delight in the giver
to the gifts He gives.
I've tied the protection to the protector. The blessings to the one who blesses.
And most recently, not only have I tied the art with the artist, but I've placed my desire for that art in front of the artist.
I'm really starting to hate my mirror.
the view ain't pretty.
Have I always tied my delight in Him with the delight I experience when I serve Him by doing something that satisfies, assuages my insecurity or bolsters my ego?
Have I ever simply delighted in the giver? Without experiencing the delight of a gift?
Have I ever delighted in the artist? Without finding delight in the art?
Have I ever found delight in the one who blesses, even when the blessings are disguised as trials?
but if I have, I can't remember it.
If I have, it was fleeting and subconscious. Never sustained or intentional. Don't remember ever being aware of it.
And now? Now that I've intentionally chosen to stop doing the things that fill me with delight, when I've intentionally decided to find delight ONLY in Christ….
I decided.
Go ahead. ask me how that "decision" is working out.
dismal. failure.
It would seem I am as completely incapable of deciding to delight in God as I am in sticking to any other goal I've ever set for myself.
This another one of those times where I'm extremely thankful for my belief that I am not special.
Surely I'm not the only one who has failed at this particular goal.
I headed straight for the book that introduced me to the idea of delighting myself in God in the first place. John Piper, don't fail me now. You better show some personal ugly in the middle of all that theology and lofty vocabulary. I need to see some Jack in you, JP.
God must have led me to it, because I have no idea how I found it. I immediately loved the title: "When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy"
3rd sentence in the Forward:
"When all is said and done, only God can create joy in God."
Sentences 5, 6 and 7:
"To be satisfied by the beauty of God does not come naturally to sinful people. By nature we get more pleasure from God's gifts than from himself. Therefore this book calls for deep and radical change-which only God can give."
My inclination was to head straight for Chapter Twelve "When the Darkness Does Not Lift" but I'm gonna hold off skipping to the end.
Instead, I'm jumping to the chapters on prayer because I'm still wresting with with petitionary prayer in light of my overwhelming awareness of just how selfish I am.
Stay tuned. This could be kinda like watching NASCAR, but for Christians. Either I'm going to crash and burn or there's an epiphany and a straightaway ahead.
Meanwhile, still listening to this:
[CLICK HERE to see a listing of all the blog posts in this series "the search for Joy."]
there's more to the gospel than evangelism.
"We must diligently and consistently cast the gospel in larger terms than only evangelism. The gospel consumes the Christian life itself, affecting how our corporate lives play out among the communities where God has placed us, providing us with multiplication potential at every turn…
Whenever people come to a service at your church, they should hear in some way that we are all sinners in need of grace, but that grace has been extended to us in Jesus Christ. His righteousness has been imputed to us, and in His cross God's wrath toward us has been removed if we will hear, submit, and believe.
Every week someone should proclaim the gospel, no matter what the topic is. If we're talking about holiness, about manhood, about marriage, parenting, money, or any particular biblical command, we need to teach it and talk about it in view of the gospel, always bringing it back to the epic story of God's redemption." (emphasis added)
Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church
by Matt Chandler, Josh Patterson, and Eric Geiger
a good Christian life.
Honored to have had the privilege of delivering this message to a group of women at a Brunch this past Saturday morning. This video will give you a preview of the book I'm writing. If you've got 8 minutes and 27 seconds, check it out.
not more from God, more of God.
[the following is an excerpt from the book I'm writing]
Intimate communication with Christ through prayer can be the foundation of everything in your life: every thought you think, every idea that opens your mind, every choice you make. But when we relegate prayer to certain times and places in our lives, we limit that communication – and its influence on our thoughts, ideas and choices. We quench the Holy Spirit.
1 Thessalonians 5:17-18 tells us to "pray continually" and that it is "God's will for you in Christ Jesus." These instructions aren't directed at monks, they are for everyone who has accepted Christ. It's possible to pray anywhere, anytime because God is with you, everywhere, all the time. It's possible for prayer to saturate your moments and your days.
Did I just morph into that Jesus Freak with whom you avoid eye contact and cross the street to escape? Have you already tuned me out, thinking, "meh, she's not talking to me. I don't need to change anything. I'm fine."
The most heinous of four letter words. Saturated in mediocrity. Reeking of average. Riding the edge of dissatisfaction and discouragement. More comfortable than a recliner and a bowl of chips in front of a 60 inch flat screen. There are some people who live their entire lives feeling fine about everything they do. There are people live their entire lives feeling fine about their relationship with God.
Fine is not what I'm going for. I. want. more.
I've discovered that I can have as much of God as I want, and I want more. I want Christ in every nook and cranny of my mind and heart and soul, every day of the week because when He's not? My pursuits are just pointless exercises in ladder climbing and stuff collecting. I want my relationship with Christ to be at the center of my marriage, my relationship with my kids, family and friends, my career, my ministry.
If that makes me a Jesus Freak, go ahead and call me one, under your breath or to my face, I'm okay with the label. I've found the ultimate source of passion in life and I can't keep it to myself. I'm compelled to share it. It fuels me. My relationship with Christ makes the routine meaningful, the lows bearable and the highs incomparable. God's grace is more amazing than any song could describe, His love is illogically unconditional, His patience is unimaginably endless, His blessings are undeserved and abundant and His peace obliterates worry and fear. This is the "more" I'm talking about and there's plenty of it to go around.
It all stems from prayer, intimate no-holds barred prayer. Naked prayer. The kind of prayer you pray when you are unashamed and want to tell God everything. The kind of intimate communion Adam and Eve experienced with God in the Garden before they were deceived. I'm writing this book because I want you to want more. To have more. More of God.
Not more from God, more of God.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 (NIV)
another year, over. No do-overs. No take-backs. Only lessons to be learned and new choices to be made.
Lord, am I where you want me? Am I living the life you've given the me the way you know would be best?
I want to be a living sacrifice for You. But sometimes – much of the time – I know my choices are driven by my own idea of what that looks like.
What does it look like to You, God?
My fear is that my desires are selfish and much bigger than those you have for me.
Is it possible that the plans you have for me involve me sitting across the table from one person, listening, asking questions and sharing my faith one on one? That this book I'm writing is equipping me for those conversations, but will never actually be read? or even finished?
Is it possible that the plans you have for me mean that the primary reason I'm recording is for the witness that occurs during the recording sessions themselves and that these recordings will live forever on my computer in obscurity?
And those things are good. Very, very good.
But you know I want more. Is that from You?
The last thing I want to do is pursue a dream you haven't given me. I'm desperate to saturate myself in your will and I want to have tunnel vision when it comes to following Your lead. Please don't let me pursue anything that actually takes me away from You. Please show me what I could or should be doing to bring You glory.
I think of the story about You asking a man to push against a rock. Day after day, year after year, the man pushed, eventually becoming discouraged, saying, "God, I give up. I've pushed and pushed with all my strength and I haven't moved this rock even one inch. What did I do wrong? Why did I fail?"
The story says that you replied by saying, "I didn't ask you to move the rock. I only asked you to push against it. You say you've failed, but have you? Look how strong you've become. You've done exactly what I asked.
Now I will move the rock."
I know you don't need my help Lord. Please allow me to serve you anyway. Please use me anyway. Please guide me. Please equip me. Help me to be obedient. Please don't ever let me give up.
Too often, we bide our time with the routine of a life that we hope
will one day take us across the chasm. Our days become stacked upon other days.
And as time moves forward, we think about the great abyss in our quieter moments.
We wonder if we should take the leap soon.
But the busyness of our days pulls us back from the edge and we perpetually postpone it.
Why? Because we are afraid we do not have the strength to make it.
Don't let that happen. You're stronger than you think.
Dr. Les Parrott
the hard is what makes it great.
"If it was easy, everyone would do it" is one of my mantras.
I say it to my kids when they struggle with ANYthing and I see discouragement or frustration start to set in. I say it to my husband, friends, clients and sometimes, even strangers.
I say it to myself.
A lot.
When I'm supposed to be writing and find myself staring at the screen, fingers atrophied over the keyboard.
When I spend two hours writing, proofread what I've written and immediately want to start over.
When I'm trying to curl a 15 pound dumbbell for the 12th time in my second set.
When I'm 2 minutes and 20 seconds into my 2 minute, 30 second forearm plank.
When I'm trying not to fly off the back of the treadmill during my HIIT walking program.
When I drag myself off the couch to pick up that stupid dumbbell or put on my walking shoes.
When I'm 3 seconds short of an 18 second note I've been trying to hold out. For the 100th time.
When my voice breaks on that high note I'm trying to hit in full voice. After two years of voice lessons.
When I'm vocalizing for the third time in a day in an attempt to get the "right" technique to become second nature.
Just a few weeks ago, during a break in a recording session, I mentioned something about needing to work on something with my voice teacher. The sound technician said, "YOU have a voice teacher!?" I responded with a big "Heck, YEAH!" He paused for a moment and then said, "It just seems more like you would teach voice lessons, not take them." I quickly and firmly told him that I will never be too good for voice lessons.
But that exchange emphasized a very common misconception: The things people are good at just come naturally to them.
SO not true.
And the persistence of that mindset devalues the accomplishment, no matter what it is. The persistence of that mindset liberates other people from trying. It turns a potential mentor into someone to be resented and berated. Instead of being viewed as someone who met a goal as a result of hard work, they are instead viewed as "lucky." Rather than inspiring someone else to take their own steps toward better and stronger, they become a discouragement to others. Because the perception is that whatever the goal, it's not achievable by anyone but the lucky ones.
The book, Talent Is Overrated claimed, "One factor, and only one factor, predicted how musically accomplished the students were, and that was how much they practiced."
The fact is that excellence isn't easy. It doesn't happen without work. Usually hard work. Developing a skill takes time. and repetition.
and repetition.
and repetition.
Experience is a teacher in and of itself.
What most people don't realize is that mediocrity is only one short day of slackin away. Just because I do something well, doesn't mean I've finished learning or practicing.
The fact that I was in a writing zone yesterday doesn't insure against writer's block tomorrow.
Being satisfied with today's writing doesn't mean I won't be filled with doubt and repulsion about tomorrow's.
The ability to lift a 15 pound dumbbell today doesn't mean I won't have to opt for 10 pounds tomorrow.
Making it through a 2 minute, 30 second plank today doesn't mean I won't collapse at 2 minutes the next day.
Finishing the 30 minute HIIT treadmill program today is no guarantee that I won't wimp out the next time.
The fact that extracted myself from the couch today doesn't mean won't stay curled up on it tomorrow.
As I've discovered, holding a note for 18 seconds one time, does NOT mean I can now do it any time I want.
The same is true for that high note – once does not mean always.
Even after spending hundreds of hours practicing the "right" way to sing, I still drift into old habits . . .
For me, excellence isn't a destination I'll ever arrive at and rest comfortably. Because of my relentless determination to be a good steward of all that God has blessed me with, the striving for excellence is a lifetime journey.
To find out why I'm so obsessed with striving for excellence, check out this post: I. Want. More.
"Fair" is not when everybody gets a turn.
Fair is when hard won preparation and relentless dedication to excellence earns opportunity.
When I was in college, one of my friends, a member of the same singing group I was in, angrily told me it wasn't fair that I got so many solos "just because I sang better than her." She said she "couldn't help it that she couldn't sing as well as I did." She said "God had just given me a better voice than her." She had been shortchanged and she was disappointed. And ticked off. At me. And she let me know it. This particular time she said it out loud while looking glaring me in the eye, but most of the time the message was sent through her sulking body language and mopey facial expression every time I got assigned a solo or actually performed one.
Fast forward 20 years. I joined our church's praise team and after a few months, all the vocalists were put on a rotation. The theory was that it would be easier for the musicians if they didn't have to make a weekly commitment. Less burnout. I told the worship leader I didn't want to be on a rotation. I wanted to sing every week. Why?
- I needed the accountability; preparing for a mid-week evening rehearsal and Sunday morning service forced me to sing EVERY day. If I didn't work every day, I wouldn't be as prepared as I wanted to be.
- I needed to build up my stamina, increase my vocal range and improve my breath control. Consistent daily work – on all three – was the only thing that was going to get the job done.
- I was being exposed to, and challenged by, a new style of music that I was instinctively gravitating toward.
- The mental challenge of memorizing a boatload of lyrics was exponentially increasing my memory skills. I was being forced to employ abandoned memory techniques I had learned years ago.
- The weekly exposure of being in front of a large group of people during the praise and worship service was slowly nicking away at the stage fright that had crept in during the 10 plus years I had taken off as a serious vocalist. I was once again becoming comfortable, more at home on stage.
- The worship leader's easy dismissal of my screw-ups was leading to more self-confidence and as a result, I was taking more risks vocally and stylistically.
- I was experiencing emotion when I sang and I was gradually allowing myself to feel it. Rare for me to experience it. Unthinkable to actually allow it. Inconceivable that I didn't feel compelled to retreat.
Every week I was gaining experience and growing stronger. I began asking for a DVD of every service and I watched the "game film" every week. That DVD is unedited; the vocals are unmixed. I heard what was going into the microphone, not what was coming out after I got a little help from the sound guys. I heard THE HARD TRUTH. Every week, I meticulously listened to the quality of my voice, my harmonies, and whether my phrasing and breathing matched the worship leader's. I forced myself to evaluate my appearance and my stage presence. I relentlessly critiqued myself. I was determined to identify my weaknesses and work on eliminating them. I found a vocal coach and started working with her regularly. I was rehearsing 10 to 20 hours per week and I came to rehearsal as prepared as I possibly could. I had to make some hard choices to give up some good things in my life to fit in those 10 to 20 hours.
I was working my butt off.
And then another vocalist caught me off guard with a simple question: "Why are you so special?"
I was dumbfounded. "What?"
They said, "Why do you get to sing every week?"
I heard, "It's not fair. You get to sing more than me."
I was stunned. Since it wasn't a real question, they didn't really expect an answer. They just wanted me to know I was getting undeserved special treatment and they didn't like it.
I learned a long time ago that when I'm faced with criticism, I really need to strip away all the emotion and acrimony and bravely look for a grain of truth. Special. Was I getting special treatment?
Yes. I sang every week. I was excluded from the rotation.
I found myself thinking about these two interchanges from my past multiple times today, and it led me to this video. Check it out. Only 1 minute and 2 seconds.
As soon as I watched that commercial on youtube I knew it was true. Both of these people from my past were making excuses. Both of them assumed that my voice was just a God-given gift and that I didn't have to work for it. I was their scapegoat. Their guilt-free pass to rationalization and self-delusion. It was easier to blame me for hogging all their opportunities than to work hard for what they wanted.
Neither one of them came to rehearsals prepared, having learned their own individual parts ahead of time. Neither one expressed interest in voice lessons. To my knowledge, neither one recorded and listened to themselves. Neither one made adjustments to their commitments or schedules to allow extra time to work on their vocals. Neither one sought out and encouraged honest feedback about their vocals, instead depending on the polite comments of friends as justification that there was no room or need for improvement. Both of them garnered support through whispering campaigns, resulting in high tension and drama. I spent a LOT of time with my college friend and I never, ever heard her rehearse or vocalize outside of our weekly group rehearsal.
Each of those two people, because of their unwillingness to strive for continued improvement, prevented each group from rising above their lowest common denominator: Them.
Is it possible these two people might have put a tremendous amount of work and effort into becoming stronger vocalists only to discover they don't have enough core talent? Possibly. But neither of them will ever know. They had dreams, but dreams without action are just wishes, not goals.
Wishin don't make it so.
And fair isn't when everybody gets a turn. Fair is when hard won preparation and relentless dedication to excellence earns opportunity.
But I learned a long time ago that life isn't fair. And these two people from my past are by far not alone in their belief that fair is when everybody gets a turn. They are by far, not the only people who feel entitled to opportunities they don't earn. And those opportunities are continuously provided to people who don't work for them because it's easier than having the difficult and honest conversation that will most likely hurt their feelings.
It's not limited to music, it's everything. Everywhere. So when an opportunity I continue to work so hard to earn is given to someone less qualified in the pursuit of fairness, I'm left with a choice.
Take my ball and go home because it isn't fair? That fits me worse than pink clothing.
Be less because someone else can't or won't be more? Not gonna happen. I refuse to give God less than my best. I refuse to stifle the gifts He's blessed me with.
I will be the best steward I can possibly be – of all He's given me, even if that stewardship leads to resentfulness and jealousy and leaves me with significantly diminished opportunities.
My kids are paying attention to how I handle this. I'm not wavering from what I've been teaching them their entire lives: "sometimes, we have to do what's required."
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Shoulder Devil: "It's late. You did the HIIT training. Skip the rest."
Shoulder Angel: "There's still an hour and a half left in the day. Don't listen to him. If it wasn't for me, your body fat percentage would still be 51%"
Shoulder Devil:: "hhhhhh. okay, fine. then just do the plank. Skip the strength training. You're tired. You can do strength training tomorrow."
Shoulder Angel:: "He's right."
Shoulder Devil:: "I am?"
Shoulder Angel:: You should do strength training tomorrow. You should do tomorrow's strength training tomorrow. Do today's strength training today."
Shoulder Devil:: "no, that's not what I meant…"
Shoulder Angel:: You don't have to do the Power Half Hour, just do one of the 10 Minute DVDs" ."
Shoulder Devil:: "Don't listen to him, he's a fanatic. He's talking about 10 Minutes. What's the big deal about 10 lousy minutes?"
Shoulder Angel:: "EXACTLY my point."
Shoulder Devil:: "NO! That's not what I meant…"
Shoulder Angel:: "HEY! remember that FIRM 5 Day Ab workout from the 90s? Do that! Day one is only 6 minutes!"
And that's how I ended up with this video in the DVD player tonight.
(and you're welcome. this video clip is so blurry you can't see that the shorts on the guys in this video are WAY too short. T. M. I. and ewww. and again. ewww. and who says "supine? My whole life I've never said the word "supine.")
I. Want. More.
I've described my mother as a "defiant non-compliant diabetic." She ate what she wanted, when she wanted, blood sugar be damned. After decades of neglect, her body began to deteriorate and finally shut down completely. I found a receipt in her wallet dated just days before her death. She had driven through Burger King on the way home from dialysis and ordered a BK Stacker (22 grams of fat, 700 mg of sodium.). She was suffering from congestive heart failure, taking 14 different medications and on dialysis 3 days a week, but she wanted a BK Stacker, so she got one. There were more fast food receipts in the pockets of her clothing and on her desk.
Time and time and time again she chose immediate personal gratification and a comfort zone, over long term goals, discomfort and inconvenience – and not just with food.
She bought what she wanted when she wanted it, even if she didn't have the money.
She wanted a warm, inviting home, but she focused on the house and its contents more than the people who lived in it.
She wanted passionate relationships, but was controlling and plagued with pride.
She wanted to travel and experience new things. But instead, she booked the same vacation for years.
She loved to play the piano. But she didn't make time for it.
She loved to sing. But she only sang in the house. And rarely.
She wanted to write. But she didn't.
She wanted so much, but she settled for so little.
Her desire for the things she wanted made it challenging and sometimes impossible for her to recognize, much less appreciate, the blessings she had. Her inability to see that she had power to change her circumstances if she stayed true to her long-term goals kept her firmly rooted in mediocrity and the status quo.
I paid attention. And I learned quite a bit about what I want for my life by watching her choices.
I still pay attention. And I look for consequences – good and bad – so I can learn from other people's choices. I learn a LOT about what I want as a result of my OWN choices and their consequences.
My mother had a stroke and blamed her doctors and her medication. She had a stroke and I got a personal trainer. Before and after her stroke, she relied on medications to make herself feel better and to lengthen her life. Before her stroke, I was following in her footsteps. After her stroke, I began relying on exercise and lifestyle changes to make myself feel better and to lengthen my life.
I had a choice. I could continue to go with the flow and eventually find myself at risk for a stroke or I could intentionally and consistently walk backwards against the current. If you know me, it shouldn't surprise you that when I'm floating in a lazy river, I will at some point, become bored and walk backward against the current. It's a metaphor for my life. I intentionally choose to view every experience God has allowed in my life – good AND bad – as a blessing. Together, these blessings fuel me with determination.
I'm a big believer in benchmarking. When I want to learn how to do something, I find people who do it well and I copy them. But I also learn what not to do by watching the things that people, myself included, do poorly. I pay attention to choices and consequences – good and bad. I call it opportunistic learning and it helps me discover what I want in my life.
I want more than immediate gratification and a well worn spot in my comfort zone.
I want MORE than the comfort of air conditioning, dry, pleasant smelling clothing, a good hair day, less laundry and an extra hour every day. I don't consider a handicapped sticker on my car to be a well deserved ticket to a great parking space and the inability to walk up a flight of stairs without getting winded scares me more than a hurricane warning. The inability to walk up a flight of stairs at all scares me more than an actual hurricane.
I want a stronger body, even if it needs two showers in one day, generates smelly, wet laundry, "wastes" 30 minutes or more of my day and requires a longer walk from the parking lot. I want to get stronger as I get older, not weaker. I want to be a good steward of this body God has blessed me with. I've experienced the limitations of a body that won't do what I want it to do and I hated it so much I NEVER want to experience it again. I'll do anything I can to make sure that my body doesn't deteriorate due to neglect.
I want MORE than a 6 inch high plate of nachos with a phenomenal cheese sauce or the most decadent, melt in your mouth chocolate lava cake in the world. I want MORE than the thousands of milligrams of sodium and double digit grams of fat in the restaurant food that saves me from cooking dinner when I don't feel like it. I want MORE than a bedtime snack of ice cream or a Grand Slam breakfast from Denny's. I want MORE than a BK Stacker.
I want unblocked arteries, normal blood pressure and stable blood sugar. I want my 7 day pill case to be filled with vitamins and supplements instead medications. I want to model good nutritional choices for my children, especially my daughter. I want to live a longer, healthier life than my mother did. I'm not swayed by spoonfuls being shoved in my face along with an exasperated voice telling me to "just taste it." It's not that I secretly want it and am just denying myself. I really don't want it. I'll never be convinced to abandon my long term nutrition goals just because someone belittles me for not eating something they want to eat. I'll never belittle them while I watch them eat – but I also won't sanction their choice or cave to middle school level peer pressure by picking up a fork and joining them.
I want MORE than a good marriage. I want MORE than candy and flowers and jewelry on Valentines Day and my birthday. I want MORE than a husband who handles car maintenance, toilet repair, heavy lifting, jar opening and high shelf reaching. I want MORE than a "good" sex life and a husband who does what I want in order to get it. I want MORE than a husband who agrees with me to avoid conflict and who spends time with me because he's supposed to.
I want a GREAT marriage to a man I can't go a day without talking to. I want to be the person who respects my husband more than anyone else in the world and I want him to know it beyond a shadow of a doubt. I want to come to the end of my day and be confident I didn't say a bad word about him to ANYone. I want to be the kind of wife he wants to come home to and I want to be genuinely happy that he's home when he walks in the door. I want a partner – a LIFE LONG partner – who tells me the truth in a gracious tone of voice, motivated by love. I want us to share EVERYthing without holding back: our thoughts, our ideas, our weaknesses, our fears, our passions and our bodies. I want to share household and parenting duties and I'm thankful that I figured out early in our marriage that different isn't wrong. I want us to be able speak in idioms and always understand each other. I want us to be able to communicate with facial expressions and eye contact. I want to stay married to my best friend for the rest of my life and I'm thankful that we are both willing to run to a marriage counselor the minute our relationship can be described as "fine."
I want MORE than compliant children who make good grades, keep their room clean and behave appropriately at all times. I want MORE than happy, safe children. I don't want my children to do what they're told because I say so.
I want to hear about everything that interests them, because I know that if I don't listen with interest, they will stop telling me. I want to be challenged by their mind, fascinated by their discoveries, respectful of their ideas, convinced by their reasoning, inspired by their passion and exasperated by our differences. I want to always strive to respect them as individuals instead viewing them as extensions of myself. I want to be comfortable with their potential to embarrass me for the sake of their (and my) learning curve. I want my children to learn life lessons from remorse and disappointment as well as from pride and achievement. I want to equip them, not protect them. I want them to do the right thing because it's the right thing, even when nobody is looking.
I want MORE than the ability to pay my monthly bills. I want more than a nice car and a big house with a screened pool. I want more than great vacation destinations. I want more than stuff.
I want to be debt-free. I want to own my home, not hold a mortgage. I want my car to start every time I turn the key, and if it does, I don't care how many miles are on it. I want to be a good steward of my financial blessings. I want to save and pay cash for the things I want. I don't want to pay interest. I want to teach my children the value of a wise financial choice. I want to teach them that delayed gratification ultimately makes them happier and more secure than an impulse or convenient purchase. I want to give God MORE than 10% of what he entrusts to me and I want my kids to want to do the same.
I want MORE than to help lead a "good" praise set on Sunday morning. Lukewarm makes me restless. Holding back makes me unsettled. Trying to please everyone is deeply discouraging. Settling for fine wears me down. I don't want to give God less than my very best. No one is drawn to mediocrity.
I want to work my butt off to prepare and when Sunday morning comes, I want to block out all the logistics and make myself open and available for God to equip me for service. I want to respond to the prompting of the Holy Spirit, not the body language of someone in the congregation who is missing His presence because they are preoccupied with what someone else thinks. I want to allow myself to be saturated with the Holy Spirit, so much so that Satan doesn't stand a snowball's chance in Hell of distracting me from my goal of bringing as many people with me as I possibly can while I abandon myself to authentic, consuming praise. I want to go all out and see what God will do with my all.
I want to use everything God has given me – the good and the bad – to serve Him. When I write, I have no idea if the result is a cathartic purge or if someone will identify with something I say and be encouraged or changed by it. It's just as possible that what I've written will alienate or discourage someone. I have no idea if God will use it to reach someone, but I pray He will. I don't want the words I write to be in a vacuum.
I. want. MORE.
Do I always get it right? Not by a long shot. I do not find all this to be intuitive. These are determined choices I make, over and over and over again. And when I screw up, I start over, even if I have to start over multiple times a day. But I'm not going to stop striving. And I'm willing to wait for whatever God hasn't entrusted me with yet. I'm willing work for it.
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness,knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 5-8
"Never neglect what you've seen God do in your life. Take a careful look at these things from God's perspective, all the way from your birth to where you stand right now. They're all significant."
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It's Not the Least We Can Do, It's the Best We Can Do.
(a short excerpt from the book I'm writing – and WILL eventually finish)
Why is it that when faced with a problem, my first inclination is to do something? To take action? Why is it that my knee jerk reaction is to throw myself into problem solving mode? Then, when I've expended every effort, when I've explored every possible option, only then do I pray? Why is it so counter-intuitive to pray first? Why is it that I, more often than I'd like to admit, see prayer as a last resort in a time of crisis instead of a first line of defense?
This is not something I'm proud of, nor is it something I can rationalize or dismiss. What I want to do when faced with a challenge or crisis, is immediately, intuitively go to God for help, but instead, time and time again, I find myself at the end of my own abilities, begging God for direction and ideas – and supernatural intervention.
Prayer is seriously underrated. We tend to keep it in a nice, neat little box, taking it out only when we need it. In the words of Robin Williams as the Genie in Disney's Aladdin:
"Phenomenal cosmic power! itty bitty living space."
I've found that when I'm actively committed to consistently spending time with God, the tendency to handle things on my own is automatically diminished. When I've already spent time with God on a given day, reaching out to Him as a first response when something happens later in the day is much more intuitive. I'm also less easily discouraged because when I talk to God first, my approach to a problem is much clearer and calmer. I'm not saying that every time I bring a problem to God I come away with a crystal clear approach to successful and immediate problem solving.
I wish.
But in the great debate of whether prayer changes God's mind or our hearts, chalk this one up to a changed heart.


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