You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.

They were unwillingly to give 100 percent if they didn't personally think it was important. What you don't understand is the champions know it's all important.

First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.

It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.

You can have an impact anywhere you are.

What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.

Nothing is more deflating to morale than to have a poor outcome pinned on someone who doesn't deserve it. It lacks integrity and overvalues the outcome at the expense of the people as well as the process.