exploring the details (and trying to be kind)

You choose.

Let this be our symbol for The Pathetic.

A grown-up allowed this pickle to be put in a bag by another grown-up and then given to a customer. The first grown-up is the manager who poorly hired, poorly trained, poorly developed, and/ or poorly held accountable the second grown-up. The second grown-up is the person who allowed himself to be distracted from his potential and being valuable.

This is not love (care).

We’ve all served up our share of pickle flop. Most of the time, it’s just laziness rather than a lack of awareness or interest in doing the right thing. So let’s encourage each other to expect more from ourselves.

I know. It’s just a pickle.

Drew Brees (one of top quarterbacks in the NFL) gave a 212 book to his coach and it was mentioned in USA Today on Friday.

Here’s an excerpt from the article and an important reminder of what it takes to succeed. Maybe it’s something you can use to reinforce extra effort with your people (and your teenagers)…

Payton (the coach) tells the quintessential Brees (the quarterback) story.

“A year ago during the bye week, players are getting out of here. I was leaving the building on Sunday, and out on the field I see this guy in shorts with a ball,” Payton says.

“It’s Brees out there by himself, Sunday, 1:30. And I say, ‘What are you doing?’

“He says, ‘I’m just trying to stay in my routine, simulate a game, so my body is still in condition.’ ”

That mock game is one explanation why Brees has crashed the Brady-Peyton Manning talk on who is the top quarterback.

“Drew just outworks everybody,” linebacker Scott Fujita says. “He’s a guy’s guy, not one of those pretty boy, prima donna quarterbacks.”

Be 212.