Run with God

How the Dolphins "Changed the Culture"

So how does a football team go from 1-15 to 11-5 and win their division? They changed their culture.

On Wednesday (12/31/08) at a Dolphin Press Conference, Chad Pennington (#10) was asked about changing the culture. Below is his response.

Coach Sparano has talked about changing the culture to all of us... Trying to help us understand what it actually takes to change the culture... you just can't talk about it. There's a lot of different things you have to take into consideration, and then make it happen... and change. We talked to us about it on individual levels, and he talked to us on a team level. All of our guys have bought in. All of our guys wanted to change the culture. And all of our guys wanted to find out what this winning thing is all about, and what success is all about, and how it creates confidence and momentum...

More in the video embedded below...

Call me Pessimist

Sadly, I'm seriously considering this...

Consider the joys of being a pessimist, if you're wrong, it's usually a good thing.

Max Hsu

When in trouble, call "The Wolf"

"That's thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten."
The Wolf, Harvey Keitel
Pulp Fiction, 1994

It's all CRAP

“Ninety percent of everything is crap.”
Theodore Sturgeon, Sci-Fi writer

Worrying about Boys

Props to Rob M. for telling me this old adage...

"When you have a boy you only have to worry about one boy in town. When you have a girl you have to worry about all of the boys in town."

For the record, I will be on the porch before every date. I won't be holding a shotgun, though. Baseball Bats are so much more fun...

Fear of Computers...

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."
Isaac Asimov

Has anyone seen my replacement?

"Winners don’t find successors, they create them." - Noel Tichy

Thanks to Travis Johnson for the reference.

Sunday isn't Suck Day Eve

Time for a vote:

The graphic "Sunday isn't Suck Day Eve" is a marketing campaign currently being used in what context:

A) NFL purists claiming Monday Night Football should be back on ABC (as opposed to ESPN)

B) Churches, after hearing "Sunday @ Church Sucks" so many times, have started a slander campaign against the other days of the week.

C) Job Finder website, trying to convince people to get out of the depression that is the work week.

Here's your answer... Go Career Builder!

Pretty sad, though, that to a large portion of the population 16% of the week is lost behind the drudgery of their 9-5 lives. I guess that's what happens if a person's identity is locked into what they do...

Who are you? What is your identity? Job, Kids, Church, Hobbies, Sports, Friends? Lately I've been reevaluating my own identity and I'd love some feedback...

Momma Knows Best

"Jeff, There is something odd about blog one day laying in a coffin, next day selling bookstore. I hope no potential buyer tries to put those together."

Quote from Linda Reed (Jeff's Mommy) after reading this, and this.

Chain Smoking Pastor

"...That whole week I chain smoked as I prepared my sermon..."

Hilarious true story from one of CFs Teaching Pastor's during todays All-Staff Worship. I'm not going to out which one, but imagine a young man, nervous about speaking for the first time that buys a carton of Marlboros to calm his nerves as he prepares to preach the week before his first sermon...