SAX IN THE MORNING

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. This week we are going to talk all about overcoming limits. The funny thing about limits is that many of the ones that really stop us from achieving our dreams are limits we place on ourselves.  Take that little voice inside our heads that tells us to stop what we are doing. It tells us not to take a bi...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. It’s time for another lockout update as the players and owners of Major League Baseball have met for two days to try to hash out a new collective bargaining agreement. The update is they are still very far apart on the major issues.  The players want a ton of money for pre-arbitration players and for a...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Today I wanted to share another story of someone dedicating themselves to kindness and service to others. What is so remarkable about today’s subject is that it’s a 10-year-old boy.  Orion Jean from Dallas, Texas started his journey of kindness after winning a national speech competition where the subje...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Kindness and selflessness are things that can feel like they are in short supply these days, but there are so many people out there working to make their communities a better place.  One such man is Eliot Middleton. Middleton owns a BBQ restaurant in South Carolina and in 2020 at the nudging of friends...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Today I wanted to talk about an important lesson I’ve learned over the course of my different careers. We talked about the importance of preparation and the importance of having some heart and some guts to believe you are the right person for the job.  Just as important as those are is the realization t...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Yesterday we talked about preparation being vital to success. But what happens when you have two people with the same natural talent, the same work ethic and the same drive to succeed? Who is going to win out?  It’s the person with the heart and the guts that make them fearless and confident who succeed...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. This week I wanted to cover three lessons I have learned over the course of my life succeeding in several different careers.  The first is that preparation is where confidence is built. It didn’t matter if I was facing a Hall of Fame pitcher, preparing a presentation for a financial client or practicing...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. This week we have been talking about how failure is a necessary part of the process to being successful and today we need look no further for examples than the two teams in the Super Bowl.  The Rams had lost to the 49ers six straight times and it seemed as though the 49ers might have the upper hand in t...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. This week we are talking about how failing is just part of the process to being successful.  Take Tim Leatherman who created the Leatherman multi-tool. Tim had a simple idea of making a pair of pliers with a fold out knife. He spent two years in a garage trying to build a tool he thought people would us...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. This week on our shorts I wanted to focus on one of the most painful and necessary hurdles to success. That hurdle is failure.  It’s inevitable. We are all going to fail in little ways and spectacular ways. Right now is a great time to witness athletes who have overcome failure or who literally fall and...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Shari Fitzpatrick always loved strawberries. Her dad even planted her a strawberry patch in their yard when she was a girl growing up in Oregon. In her early 20’s she began giving chocolate dipped strawberries to clients as a mortgage broker and the more people raved about them the more she thought she...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. You all know that baseball is still one of my passions, so today I wanted to give an update on where we stand with Major League Baseball coming to a new collective bargaining agreement with the players.  Both sides have made some concessions when finally meeting a couple times last week, but there has s...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. It’s so easy today to flip on the news and get bombarded with negativity and to focus on all the things wrong with the world today. So today, I wanted to focus on the fact that 2022 might just be the best time ever to be alive.  Think about it. We have all the information we could ever want at our finge...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. So many of us spend too much time during our lives trying to fix what’s “wrong” with us. Many of you right now may be feeling down because of a failed new year's resolution.  But what if you focused on your strengths instead of your weaknesses? There has been a lot of research done on this idea of...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Today I talk with Al Jean, the longtime executive producer of The Simpsons. We talk about the iconic episode that I was part of 30 years ago when Mr. Burns hired me to be the second baseman of his nuclear power plant softball team along with eight other Major League Baseball All-Stars like Don Mattingly...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. We are in the middle of winter and we have been weathering yet another COVID surge that may have you wondering, “is this ever going to end?”  Well the short answer to that is, yes it will end. But in the meantime I wanted to share some tips that I have learned from long baseball seasons and grinding thr...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. On today’s short I wanted to talk about a principle which I believe is vital for all of us to live a life free from resentment and anger. That principle is forgiveness.  I found this amazing story about a man named Rais Bhuiyan who was shot in the face and left for dead in a hate crime 10 days after 9/1...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. We all have a ton of things which can distract us everyday and make us less productive which can lead to a feeling of emptiness and low energy. To combat this I found a tip that came partially from one of the greatest Americans ever, 26th President Teddy Roosevelt.  Roosevelt found that if he focused in...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. For our last story of people overcoming adversity this week, I found the beautiful story of Katie Cooke, a young woman who competes in long distance running races despite having epilepsy.  And Katie doesn’t just a have a seizure every once in a while either, she suffers from 14 per day! Yet she gets out...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. This week we look at stories of people who overcame difficult situations to make something of themselves. Today we talk about the famous poet and professor John Ciardi.  Born to Italian immigrants in 1916, Ciardi’s father was killed in a car accident when he was three. He was bullied by neighborhood kid...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. This week we are focusing on stories of people who have taken difficult circumstances they were born into and persevered to achieve something great. That doesn’t mean they became rich and famous necessarily but it means they overcame their situations to make more of themselves and their lives than you m...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Asking for advice or feedback is often a wise and prudent thing to do when you are unsure about the quality of your work or a decision you need to make. But we have to be very careful about who we ask advice from and we must be willing to hear the advice good, bad or otherwise.  Additionally, we shouldn...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. We all know that change is inevitable and nothing lasts forever, yet so many of us are terrified of change. When I was a young ballplayer I foolishly thought that my career and the good times would last forever, but obviously they didn’t. After baseball I had some failures in investments and some of rel...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. It's still early in the new year and so I wanted to share a little parable I found to help you begin to ask yourself how you handle adversity.  We have all had our share of adversity during the last two years and this story gives us a lot to think about regarding how we handle ourselves when things...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. For our last "best of shorts" for the week, we revisit the story of Don Mattingly and the lesson he taught me about always working and hard being consistent, regardless of the circumstance.  Sometimes people see others who are successful and think to themselves, “Oh they got lucky,” or “They m...