Tim Clark

Three Keys To Growing Across A Lifetime

This guy is amazing. A few days ago I was with him in the woods behind his house watching him up in the trees where he likes to hang out ( pun intended). What’s cool about this is that he’s 70 and this is a new interest he’s taken up in the last few years.Continue reading “Three Keys To Growing Across A Lifetime”

Calling Up Our Gifts

This week my five year old friend shared with me that she was sad because she didn’t know if she would remember how to make friends when she starts back to Kindergarten in a few weeks or when she finally gets a chance to take dance classes. No amount of reassurance was going to flipContinue reading “Calling Up Our Gifts”

Keep At It

It’s really that simple … and somedays that hard. Every summer the college soccer players come home to start their training. Every summer they come back a little de-conditioned after finals and a little time off and so the first few sessions are hard. But, slowly we increase the volume or the intensity and everyContinue reading “Keep At It”

You Are Clearly Not Average

Average is a statistic not a person. There is no such thing as an average human being. In 1950 the U.S. Air Force measured 140 dimensions of over 4000 pilots to help improve the design of the cockpits of their airplanes. The idea was if you could determine the dimensions of the average pilot youContinue reading “You Are Clearly Not Average”

Becoming Flexible

Flexibility isn’t about being able to bend over and put your palms on the floor or do the splits. Flexibility is just what it says; your ability to flex, to adapt, change, respond to changes in your environment. Mobility, stability, strength, coordination, strength and stiffness all go into making us flexible and they can allContinue reading “Becoming Flexible”

What The Optimist Doesn’t Say

The optimist doesn’t say everything is fine or even that everything is going to be fine. The optimist just knows that we have within us and around us what we need to rise to meet the challenge and if we fail, to get back up, learn, adapt and rise to meet it again. It allowsContinue reading “What The Optimist Doesn’t Say”

Lighting Your Fire

Who inspired you this week? What did they do? What challenge did they rise to? What qualities did they draw on to do it? What lesson did you take from their choices and actions? Now, do that two more times. Beginning to see a pattern here? The people who inspire us are often just lightingContinue reading “Lighting Your Fire”

Shifting The Pattern

What good coaches do is listen, patiently for those “simple, quiet opportunities”, as Wayne Muller called them, to shift the pattern, to help the people they serve explore and create the possibility of something better, something more in line with what they know can be.

The Holiness Of Limitations

A few years ago I had two high school hockey players come to me asking for a little help. They had both broken an arm during hockey games in the same week. Now they were out for 4-6 weeks while they healed and they wanted to know if I would help them stay fit andContinue reading “The Holiness Of Limitations”

Pace

“Once you’ve committed yourself to something, pace yourself to the finish line. ~ Meb Keflezighi In April, astronaut Mark Kelly gave an interview about what his time in space had taught him about living through quarantine and stay at home orders. After he talked about the importance of a routine and exercise he said, “TheContinue reading “Pace”