Most mornings I have the privilege to take Reese (3) and Reia (almost 6) to school. It really is such a blast just to hear them talk and learn what is going on in there little heads. This morning was awesome…here is a small part of our dialogue.

“Daddy, do you have your iPod?” -Reese

“You bet, what do you want to listen to?” -Me

“Hummmm, I wanna listen to Rock n Roll!” -Reese

“Daddy, what Reese is talking about is the….It’s been a long time since I’ve Rock n Rolled song by Led Zeppelin.” -Reia

“Oh yea, that is a great song.” -Me

“You bet it is. Led Zeppelin is the greatest rock and roll band of all times.” -Reia

I have the greatest girls is the world, wow, such a blessing! It is never to early to expose kiddos to true music greatness.

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Years ago, with TerryStorch.com (1.0) I did a weekly Leadership Tip that I called 52 Leadership Tips. When TS.com (1.0) went away it was one of the many casualties of war. However, this week I had a great conversation with a great friend and referred back to this concept because it was exactly what we both needed. So here ya go…Throw back TerryStorch.com stuff.

52 Leadership Tips- #21 (Throw back!)

Swing Change, originally posted April 11, 2005 @ 04:44

April 10th, 2005 Tiger Woods won his fourth green jacket from the illustrious Master’s. This was in my personal opinion the finest two hours of television that I might have ever seen.

But what many non-golfers might not know was the huge controversy going around about Tigers “swing change” back in 2004. If you are not aware of Tiger success, let me give you some bullet points.

- 1975 Tigers born

- 1996 Won 2 tournaments

- 1997 Won 5 tournaments (1 major)

- 1998 Won 3 tournaments

- 1999 Won 11 tournaments (1 major)

- 2000 Won 11 tournaments (3 majors)

- 2001 Won 8 tournaments (1 major)

- 2002 Won 7 tournaments (2 majors)

- 2003 Won 5 tournaments

- 2004 Won 3 tournaments

- 2005 Won 3 tournaments (1 major)

- 2006 Won 8 tournaments (2 major) update

- 2007 Won 7 tournaments (1 major) update
Career Won 61 tournaments (13 majors) $76,579,376 earnings

All of Tiger’s critics are saying that he made a stupid decision to change his swing. Tiger was on the top of his game, the best golfer in the world, and he goes off and changes his swing. Why? Why would Tiger do that? Simple, he wants to get better. Tiger saw that with his current swing, he was as good as he was going to be. And that was not good enough for him, so he made a change. A change that set him back, a change that everyone was against, a change that not many people understood.

So, a lot of golf talk today but please do not miss the point. “Swing Change” can be replaced with many different words. What do you and I need to change? Where do we need to go against the grain, against what everyone is saying and change in our companies, churches, organizations? It might be working perfectly now, humming along. Your profits might be higher than they have ever been. Your church may be packed with more people that you have ever had. Who knows what it is, but can it last, are you as good as you can be? Look around the corner, and do not get caught up in being the best today and lacking vision. You might need to change your swing and take a few steps back so you can be even better in the future.

“I don’t want to get back to (year) 2000. I want to become better. I want to become better than that.” -Tiger Woods

How about you…is it time for a Swing Change?

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Don’t wait, watch the video and make sure your sign up. I just faxed them my email address!
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Its been a while since the last Ear Bud post, so I thought I would share with you the music I have been enjoying the past month or so.

Alter Bridge- Blackbird : Really enjoying this new album.
Kristien Stanfill- Hello : This kid is amazing.
Foo Fighters- Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace : A rad album. (Rad was inspired by Kat Von D)
Eddie Vedder- Into the Wild : A mellow album, but I am really enjoying it.
Spoon- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga : I have not listened enough to comment just yet.

How about you… What are you listening to that I should add?

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In recent months (nearly a year) I have grown increasingly interested in environmental issues. Funny, I have found this topic to be a hot bed for some, and others I have talked with have no interest at all.

Anyway, I have found some organizations that really make sense to me. Check them out for yourself.

41pounds.org

41pounds.org is a community of people working to eliminate a big personal nuisance and environmental hazard – junk mail. Our name comes from the amount of junk mail the average person receives each year (credit card applications, catalogs, coupon books, etc.) which for the most part goes directly into the trash can or recycling bin. Even with recycling programs all over the country, the majority of household waste is junk mail, and paper takes up about 40% of landfill space! (learn more)

Carbonfund.org
Reduce What You Can, Offset What You Can’t™

We encourage everyone to continually strive to reduce your carbon footprint through sensible energy reductions combined with cost-effective carbon offsets to eliminate your overall carbon footprint. (learn more)

EnergyStar.gov (change a light change the world)

Designed to demonstrate how important our lighting choices are as a first step toward saving energy and helping to fight global climate change. Visitors will be invited to commit to change at least one light at home via the online ENERGY STAR Change a Light Pledge. (learn more)

Awareness for us has turned into action. I will go on record and say that Robin does think I am a little nuts most of the time, but I am used to that. Here are just a few things that we have done over the past few months, and a few things we are considering.

* Built an Energy Star home.

* Tankless water heater

* Recycle

* Pledged to change to energy star lights. (pledge here)

* Changed out over 60 light bulbs.

* Signed up at 41pounds.org

* Became Carbon Netural at Carbonfund.org

* Replaced small gas lawn equipment with cordless electric

* Considering replacing gas mower with manuel or electric

* Considering next vehicle to be high MPG or Hybrid

How about you…do you care about this stuff at all? If so, what are you doing? I would enjoy hearing from you.

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