Darrin Donnelly
Sep 7, 2017
Whenever things aren’t going your way, whenever business is slow, whenever health issues arise, whenever you find yourself in the middle of a losing streak; there’s a tendency to go searching for a quick and innovative fix.
You pay for some innovative marketing system to help your business grow, you buy some magic pill that promises to cure all your health issues, or you go searching for the latest self-help fad everyone is talking about.
While it’s important to adapt to changing conditions, a “quick fix” innovative solution will rarely solve your problems. The solution to whatever problem you’re facing will usually be found in execution, not innovation.
Hall of Fame college football coach Bo Schembechler won 13 Big Ten championships during his 21 years as head coach at Michigan. In the passage below, Bo explains why execution always trumps innovation… [continue reading…]
Darrin Donnelly
Aug 30, 2017
It is important for all of us to take a step back from time to time reflect on what it is we’re doing for a living.
Is my work fulfilling and am I doing my job to the best of my ability?
Is my current profession the job I was born to do?
Am I doing what I truly WANT to be doing for a living?
It’s important to reflect on these questions from time to time. Your calling at age 30 may be a lot different at age 40, 50, or beyond.
With these questions in mind, here’s one of my favorite stories about a man who found his true calling and wasn’t afraid to go after it—regardless of what the naysayers told him. [continue reading…]
Darrin Donnelly
Aug 24, 2017
We all know that too much stress is bad for us. It leads to poor health, poor decision-making, and, poor results. But what do you do if you’ve chosen a high-stakes, high-pressure, always-changing profession? Is stress unavoidable for the coach, athlete, entrepreneur, or parent?
The truth is, regardless of your profession, there are proven techniques for eliminating stress. They take discipline to implement, but the stress-reducing results are more than worth it.
Here are five simple ways to deal with stress from someone who knows plenty about it, writer/director/actor/entrepreneur (and member of the Boxing Hall of Fame) Sylvester Stallone… [continue reading…]
Darrin Donnelly
Aug 17, 2017
What Bill Snyder did at Kansas State is almost inconceivable. In 1989, Snyder took over the worst program in all of college football and turned the Wildcats into a top-10 team within just seven seasons.
The Hall-of-Fame coach has led K-State to more than 200 wins, 18 bowl games, nine seasons with 10 or more wins, six Top-10 finishes, and two Big 12 championships. Shocking success for a school that considered dropping its football program altogether just before Snyder arrived.
Bill Snyder’s turnaround at Kansas State is unequivocally the greatest turnaround in college football history.
How did he do it? What was the foundation for this unprecedented turnaround?
Snyder built his program on what he calls the 16 Goals for Success… [continue reading…]
Darrin Donnelly
Aug 10, 2017
There are many things we don’t control in life. That’s a sometimes painful fact we all have to accept.
But, as Yogi Berra points out, it’s the things we DO have control over that determine our success or failure… [continue reading…]
