Trip home was a little scary

Honda took a pretty serious hit on the way home from camp - fortunately no serious injuries

Can't wait to hear Lucy's camp stories

Finally - Lucy pictures from camp

Father's Day Jib Jab

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Sally's project - Billy Joel house

BILLY JOEL’S NATE BERKUS-DESIGNED HOME

Lucy to LLYC - Cabin Electricity!

Best Southern Town

Emily's Savannah, GA lost to Franklin, TN (basically Nashville) - which means she was born in the greatest southern town and goes to college in the second greatest southern town!

Balance Dance End of Year Banquet

Lucy's 8th Grade Graduation

Stay Whole

Stephen Covey's whole person paradigm

My guiding five, by which I strive:

• Everybody has his or her own path. (MAY 3, 2014)
• Life should be good, fun and easy. (MAY 5, 2014)
• This too shall pass. (May 26, 2014)
• Wear a smile, be a friend. (May 27, 2014)
• Stay whole. 

Hey Sally and other daughters who read my Nuggets now or perhaps one day. It is time for my 5th and final of my guiding five - my way of celebrating your graduation from college and hopefully showing you how proud I am of you. 

About ten years ago I read a book by Dr. Jim Loehr called The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal. I became of a fan of Dr. Loehr's work on energy management after meeting him in Florida on a tennis trip with some buddies from Nashville. 

Dr. Loehr - third from right / tennis nut dad second from left

Dr. Loehr is a Sports Psychologist who made his mark working with top ranked tennis players. One of the first books I remember reading by Dr. Loehr was called The Mental Game. In this book, I remember one of Loehr's students was the great Ivan Lindl, former world number one and winner of eight Grand Slam singles titles. 

Loehr discovered what separated the greatest players, such as Ivan Lendl, from the less successful players wasn't how they played tennis points. Rather, it was how they behaved between playing points. The greatest players developed rituals to help calm and relax themselves in the short time between points. This calming and relaxing state would help Lindl restore his energy, so he was mentally and physically ready for the next point. Over the course of a long five set match, Lendl always had more energy and focus in the fifth set then his competitor.

Several years later, I became a fan of Stephen Covey's book, The 8th Habit. Covey references Loehr's work quite a bit in his book. The 8th Habit, just as Loehr's The Power of Full Engagement, teaches the importance of learning to oscillate in and out of the four different capacities: mind, heart, body, and spirit (mental, social, physical, and spiritual). We have talked about this many times and I am proud of how you seem to understand how important this is. When you balance your life in these four capacities, you can become a 'whole' person, and you can find what Covey calls your 'voice' - your unique, personal significant self.

Pretty cool. Stay whole!