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Thank You Lord, & Friends & Happy 3rd Anniversary…
Good morning leaders, clients, and friends, Well, I apologize, maybe today’s picture should have had a “Parents’ Warning” or sumthin’!! But yes, that’s my beautiful and enduring bride Denise with me in the hospital, 3 years ago today, just after I’d had a life-saving organ transplant, my third big surgery in 16 months. You’ve heard
The Coaching Carousel, & The Feedback Carousel
Good morning leaders, clients, and friends, How are you at receiving honest, well-intentioned feedback? What gets in the way of receiving it well? How are you at giving it? What holds you back from receiving it well? Perhaps you’ve heard about the number of high-level College and Pro football coaching positions that have become vacant
On The 1st Day of Christmas…
We made it?! …Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping Doug@doughowe.com. Today, finally… “First Day…” One of our absolutely favorite family traditions has become Disney Epcot’s
Two Turt-, no, Testaments!
Welcome to another of Doug’s 12 Days of Christ-mas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping me atDoug@doughowe.com. We’re almost down to #1, but today I’m borrowing from The Eagles, and Yellowstone, and doing Part II of
On The 2nd Day of Christmas… A Cliff-Ramp-Moto-Knievel-Base Jump?!!
Welcome to another of Doug’s 12 Days of Christ-mas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping Doug@doughowe.com. We’re almost down to #1, but today I’m borrowing from The Eagles, and Yellowstone, and doing just Part I of
Three Great Virtues…
Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christ-mas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping Doug@doughowe.com. Today. “Three…” On the 3rd day of Christmas, the “French hens” had to do with Latin, chicken, Gallus
“Four Camera Angles…?!”
Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping Doug@doughowe.com. Today. “Four…” On the 4th day of Christmas, the kids would have gotten a breath after the “Fiiiiiiiiiiive
Fiiiiiiiiive… Golden Rings?
Welcome again to Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, andChrist-mas. If you’ve missed a few, checkyour in-box from yesterday, or pingDoug@doughowe.com. Today, “Fiiiiiiiive….” On the 5th day of Christmas, the kids would be out of breath after the drummers and pipers and maids and swans,
Six Geese A-Layin’: The Creator, Six Days, then Rest
Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping Doug@doughowe.com. Today. “Six…” Six. I’ve known a lotta 6’s through the years. Big Six. Pick Six. Sixpence. Seal Team
Seven Swans, Seven Gifts.
Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping Doug@doughowe.com. Today: “Seven…” Lucky Seven! Touchdown! 007. The pass line. Mickey Mantle. Ronaldo. Boomer. Elway. Kyle Boller…What comes to
Eight Maids A-Milkin’?!
Eight Maids-a-Milkin’?! …Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping Doug@doughowe.com. Today. “Eight…” What do you think of when you hear “maids a-milkin’?! …Nope, I don’t know
Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas: Nine …Ladies Dancing?!
Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping Doug@doughowe.com. Today. “Nine…” What do you think of when you hear “ladies dancing?” Perhaps the Radio City Rockettes? The
Welcome to Day 3 of this year’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the memory-and-forfeit children’s game it’s based on, the Christmas story that it’s based on, and some lively present day applications.
Today, for Sunday Lord’s Day, we come to the “Ten Lords-a-Leapin’.” I don’ know who the lords were or what they were leapin’ for, but the 10 was representative of the Ten Commandments. No, not the Charlton Heston ten, or even the Mel Brooks 15, but the Raiders of the Lost Ark ten, the first
Welcome to Monday Moments, 12 Days of Christmas style. If you missed the first one yesterday, check last evening’s in-box. Today, it’s a current cultural version of “Eleven Piper’s Piping…”
The “Twelve Days of Christmas,” before it was a song, or a children’s book, or a tradition, or a rhyme, …it started as a memory-and-forfeit game in Europe. When your number came, you had to repeat the rhyme for the number. The larks with each number – today’s is Piper’s Piping – were harmless, and