I wrote this poem for my beautiful girls — Jamie Rose, my wife, and our precious daughter, Jara Rose, on October 27th, 2020, just a few days after Jamie delivered her at Duke Regional Hospital in Durham, NC. — Jakob A diddle of first time fathers By: Jakob Gollon These girls, these girls. In their…
Retaining and Developing Excellence
How will we decide to approach that thing? Proceed intentionally, my friends.
The expert inside
We don't need a logical justification for everything. Our world was built on failures (and then learning from them). That feeling we get in our gut that something is worth doing (or worth avoiding) is worth paying attention to. Even if our gut guides us wrong once in a while, it's great exercise. A gut…
Four white walls, no windows.
This is a fun question/metaphor that my best friends and I toy around with a lot. If you were locked in an empty room, with four white walls (and ceiling and floor), no windows, no objects, nothing, except one other person, for an entire day... Who would you choose to have in there with you?…
Huddle Up
The pressure is mounting. The game's on the line. Everyone is tight. Chaos is the norm in a heated athletic event. The crowd can be deafening. How do we counter that?What do teams do? They huddle up. The closer we, as teammates, can get, the easier it is to block out the noise, and communicate…
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