“Humbleness, thankfulness, humility, respect, courage and honor are much more important than winning ballgames.” – Coach Matt Labrum
Character matters
Priorities
Matt Cordle: Doing the right thing?
Matt Cordle is stepping up and doing the right thing, he is just doing it too late. Could this be you? Someone you love? Don’t wait, do it now.
Passing the sword
A daughter’s wedding: transferring responsibility for her care and protection from her father to her husband. The passing of the sword.
Open or shut? An essential leadership decision.
There are always people who will be influenced by what you say, sometimes profoundly. We each have a responsibility to dispense our opinions and use our influence wisely and ethically.
271 Words to Remember Today
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
The protector. Who, me?
In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it. Be protectors of God’s gifts!
– Pope Francis
Do you confirm or dispel?
As a police officer everyone you meet is an opportunity. Every interaction is a chance to confirm or dispel a stereotype, and make no mistake, you are doing one or the other.
The customer is always right, right?
It is important, but for a police officer it is not about customer service. It is about treating everyone with respect and with dignity. Having a customer that you might be required to kill changes everything. It is not about creating a feeling, it is about serving with integrity. That raises the bar well above mere “customer service.”
Eyes on the Shepherd
Sheepdogs resemble the wolf, with fangs and the capacity for violence. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land. The sheep would prefer a world without the sheepdog…until the wolf arrives.
Are you comfortable calling yourself a leader? You should be.
We’ve made leadership about changing the world, and there is no world. There’s only six billion understandings of it.