Took our now-sophomores on a grocery run and taught them how to make spaghetti! Living on their own for the first time, we gotta set them up for success! @coachcjnuss 💜 #EverLoyal@AldiUSA these football players are now big fans!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE!!!! @HanNussbaum
So grateful God put you in my life. Blessed for all the amazing things you do for me and for the amazing woman you are ❤️
If you get a call from some UNI football players, just know they called me to practice their call skills! @Bey3Buie@UNIFootball@UNIAthletics 👏
Head to the link to give to these guys who truly deserve it: https://t.co/Obe3tBmhzg
You have more influence than you think. Are you stewarding it?
Most people are waiting for a bigger platform before they start being intentional about their influence. But the truth is you already have one.
In your home, your workplace, your relationships. The question was never whether you have influence.
It's whether you're being a good steward of what you've already been given.
Dan Campbell said, "To be able to do something that is greater than yourself, it takes everyone to do their job at a high level. You have to be able to trust them."
Great teams know their culture is founded on trust and respect.
People want to know that they can trust you.
UNI Day of Service 💜💛
Coach Stepsis & the @UNIFootball staff are busy cleaning up the playground at the Boys & Girls Club.
Cats Who Care | #UNI150 🐾
This sport is tough. As a previous college athlete ( don’t judge that on my Appearance now or the hurt I feel getting up and down Matside 9 hours in…), but….
I wish I had known or someone
Had told me these things a few more times…..
So for all of you athletes…( my bigs/lils and others) if you need to hear it-
Read these……
1- If 40% is all you can give and you give me that 40- you’re giving 100% of what you are capable of giving.
2-Don’t forget how far you’ve come- The time and sacrifices it takes to even get to this level is truly inspiring and never a waste of time or passion.
3-Failure doesn’t hold a candle to What regret feels like.
4-I’m proud of you. Not because of your win/loss record or the accolades you have received, but simply having the courage to walk out on that mat knowing that today your best may not be enough to win- and yet you do it anyways.
5-Don’t be so quick to hurry through it. Through the joy and through the pain. Let them both sink in a little. Don’t linger too long, but enough time to recall what confidence feels like and enough time to grow from the pain you felt.
6- Anything can be used For motivation. I used to think I had to be motivated by something or someone. We can create motivation ourselves.
7- Trust. You will only go so far on your own. No one reaches the highest of levels without help. Trust the ones put in positions to help you.
8- Take knowledge from anywhere you find it. Sometimes someone can explain something by a different phrase or motion that just clicks. You are limiting yourself by working with/asking questions to only one person.
9- I love you. Why do we hold back saying this so much? Love isn’t meant to be conditional or earned.
* told Doug one day I’m gonna just say it to all our kids because I do love them and if it’s weird it’s weird, but if I sent my kid off to college I want him to be loved and cared for just as much as he is
Pushed and taught.
10- Lastly, mental health isn’t something you have to wait until you’re struggling to work on. I can look back now and identify anxiety and perfectionism all throughout my college sports experience. Heck we are trained to be performance driven and usually rewarded for good performance. What happens if we don’t make an effort to work on this? Well as we get older we start to associate good performance =valued, Lovable, worthy and a bad performance=not good enough, unlovable, unworthy. *
*COACHES ( and parents) THE WORDS YOU SPEAK IN THE MOMENTS AFTER A practice, meet, or tournament have an exponential effect on how some will view their Worth and if it will be based
On Their Performances.
If you read any of these and you wish someone had told you it growing up a little more or maybe even now go ahead and🩷 this and send to someone you know who needs to read it too.
I wrote this in 2024 and felt the need to share it again and read it again for myself.
“Heaven isn’t full of good people. Heaven is full of people who understand they’re not good enough.”
—@WesleyLHuff to @StevenBartlett
Bold. Clear. Kind.
Another incredible DL dinner prepped by @HanNussbaum last night! These will never get old, love having everyone over at our house for some intentional time together!
“Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.” (Matthew 27:45)
“And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.” (Mark 15:33)
“It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, while the sun’s light failed; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two.” (Luke 23:44-45)
“And on that day,” says the Lord GOD, “I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight.” (Amos 8:9)