Happy Tuesday!

Today might be the first day of your workweek, and if so, I hope you had a restful and memorable long weekend. Your first article this morning is a tip of the hat to the reason why you might have had a long weekend and serves as a form of coaching in words.

And coaching is the topic for the other article for you today.

As I extend my holiday at the farm – my favorite place to be – I hope you have a successful and productive day. Further, I hope that what you read below aids in your success and productivity!

(Welcome to all our new readers who we met in Washington, D.C. last week – we are glad you are here.)

Make it a great Tuesday and remember…

You are Remarkable!

Kevin 😊

What Will You Memorialize?

In the United States, yesterday was Memorial Day – a day to remember and honor soldiers and service people who died in service to our country.

They are worthy people to memorialize, to “preserve the memory of.” This isn’t a piece just for Americans – it applies to all of us. Because it isn’t about a day, it’s about the word “memorialize.”

In a world, moving forward fast, we too often forget the past. We act as though our world of instant communication and modern marvels is so new that the past is passe.

But history has much to teach us, if we let it.

And while we can think about this idea in a national or global way (think History classes in school), learning from our past isn’t just an academic or big picture exercise. We all have history. From our earliest memories to what happened yesterday, that history is full of lessons for us, if we look.

Just like we can’t apply lessons from past conflicts to current wars without reading and studying what happened before, we can’t apply the lessons of our life if we don’t look at them.

While we can’t change the past, we can learn from it – both from our favorable outcomes and foibles. But only if we choose to look back.

Memorial Day encourages Americans to do three things – to look back, remember, and commemorate the actions and sacrifices of others. Doing this “preserves the memory of” those people and their actions, but it does something more. It gives us the chance to learn from, be inspired by, and make new choices because of what we see in their actions.

It is great that we have a day to pause and do that.

But I believe everyday can be a Memorial Day for you.

You can look back at your actions, your choices, and your results, and preserve the memories of those moments. The moments themselves may be small or significant, successes or struggles. What you want to memorialize are the lessons from those moments.

That reflection can serve as the greatest source of ongoing learning for your present and future that you can find. The lessons in your past actions are worth noticing and remembering. But unless you pause long enough to remember your personal history – and memorialize it – you are doomed to repeat the mistakes and miss the opportunities in your future.

Three Barriers to Great Coaching

Chances are, if you are reading this, you would like to be a better coach. And further, chances are, if you are reading this, you are probably already an above average coach – because those are whom want to keep getting better. I want to share with you three barriers to great coaching for two reasons – because they are barriers, and because we might not immediately see them in that way.

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