Happy Sunday!

Todays message is about striving to do your best. Doing our best in anything is a goal - at least it should be. But often times, we leave it at a distance. Something we really don't think about or focus on. "Sure I want to be the best possible college student" - "I'm doing the best I can everyday."

But I have a different piece of advice. Rather than leaving it out there as something you are always trying to do, every once in a while (or more often) focus in on your goal of getting better. To do this grab a pen and paper and write down a list - a list of the things you could do to get better.

Sabbatical has done this for me. I have been teaching for 19 years. Sure I've always wanted to be the best teacher possible. But over the past year I have been asking myself, "what does that mean?" and then writing down what that means to me. As a result I have spent a lot of time searching for the answers and hopefully, when I step foot in the classroom again on May 14th, there will be a positive result.

The BOTTOM Line - to do well in anything, we have to want to do better - to do better, we have to know what that means and then act.