Catch All

The Key to Doing Great Work…

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.

— Steve Jobs

More Reinvention

As mentioned recently, I’m in the process of a reinvention of sorts. I’m trying to put my ‘track & field guy’ identity on hold and reinvent myself as a soccer fitness coach. This requires both an attitudinal adjustment as well a commitment to reeducation. Over the years, I’ve found one of the best ways to learn [...]

Bittersweet Outcomes

For 3 years I poured every ounce of my being in to my training center. All my relationships during that time period either stemmed from or had to tag on for the ride during that time period. It was grueling but I loved every moment of developing a business, my passion, from nothing. Taking huge [...]

The Employment Test

The Employment Test

One thing I’ve found extremely useful in hiring staff at Athletic Lab is our internship program. We started it out very informally. By demand from people looking to see what we do. It’s gradually morphed in to a fairly structured internship that has lead to several hires. In fact, every current staff member we have [...]

Care more

Care more. I’m convinced that’s one of the most important keys to business success. You should care more and you should find employees who care more. If it’s just a job for either of you you’re not invested enough to deal with the early days, the tough times; and don’t care enough to do the [...]

Get what you pay for

A couple month’s ago, one of the professional teams that I was training at Athletic Lab changed head coaches and decided to look elsewhere for training. While training at Athletic Lab they were the top in their league for 2 consecutive years and set plenty of club and league records for success on the field [...]