Chris Findley

Husband. Father. Amateur Chef. Murray State Racer. Crittenden County Rocket. Community Bank Executive @firstunited1996.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Tom Brady: “You need coaches that push you outside your comfort zone because that’s how you grow and that’s how you develop self confidence and self esteem. They push you to deal with failure.”

[Christopher Williston VI @IBAT_CLW]

A community bank isn't just a smaller version of a big bank. It's the lender who knew your grandfather, who called you back within a day, who made a judgment call when your financials weren't perfect but your character was. Preserving that model isn't nostalgia — it's smart policy.

[Chicago Bears @ChicagoBears]

RT for the chance to win a mini helmet signed by our Walter Payton Man of the Year 💫

#WPMOYChallenge + @idjmoore

[sandra djajic @TakoTreba]

Just read that Starbucks lost $30B after hiring a McKinsey consultant as CEO.
Guy spent his career advising founders how to build companies, but never built one himself.

17 months later, he’s gone.
They bring in the Taco Bell CEO…
and the market cap jumps $20B overnight.

Turns out running a company is harder than advising one.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life advice: Be coachable. Some folks need to be right. Others just want to get better. Only one of those people wins long-term.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

There’s a reason that larger banks, not community banks, are the ones who lobby the most for onerous banking regulations: it’s a barrier to competition.

[Jill Castilla @JillCastilla]

Bill answered the call. When I was frantically trying to contact ANYONE at the SBA during PPP, Todd Pauley connected me with Bill Briggs - who not only answered the call but sprung into action despite managing a million other things. This is a brilliant choice @realDonaldTrump!

[Preston Kennedy @BankPres]

Community banks built generational wealth for thousands of Americans for over a century while intensely focusing on small geographic areas. These economic engines are being silenced by waves of credit union acquisitions and outrageously high levels of capital required for de novo bank formation. Americans prefer to shop locally and dine locally - this has a much greater chance of happening if they can also bank with local entrepreneurial owners willing to risk their own capital and having a mutual interest in seeing the community thrive.

[Chris Findley @findleychris]

👇👇👇

[Coach Swit @CoachSwit]

Had an email from a parent whose son unfortunately did not make one of our 3 High School teams this week. She said her son said the tryouts were fair and run very well. She stated after our player/coach meeting her son now knows what he needs to work on to give him a better chance on making the team next year! Great kid and Great family who understand!

[Next Level Baseball @nextlevelbb]

A team that backs up bases, commands the strike zone, takes gritty at bats, runs the bases smart and hard, makes the routine play look routine and loves playing the game is usually hard to beat.
These things don't require the best players but do require the right players.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

I am convinced that Leadership is about Energy.

What type of energy do you exude?

- Positive energy is contagious
- Competitive energy is contagious.
- Team first energy is contagious.

This is why teams consistently win.

They have leaders who transfer this energy to others.

[Fredi “The PizzaMan” 313 @FrediThePizzamn]

This is why today happened

Dan Campbell

https://t.co/cqB7ANFqNP

[Chris Findley @findleychris]

Dan Campbell is a dawg! #LeadershipMatters

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

Leadership begins with your heart and your willingness to make a difference in the lives of others.

“He’s the best leader I’ve ever been around by far. Just authentically loves his guys. Same guy every single day,” Frank Ragnow on his head coach Dan Campbell

[Coach Mac 🏀 @BballCoachMac]

"If you're not humble, it's hard to be coached.

If you can't be coached, it's hard to get better"

- Jay Wright

[Coach Hines 🇺🇸 @CoachKurtHines]

Somewhere along the way, society started thinking that tearing others down is “cool”.

You wanna know what’s cool:

• Saying thank you
• Helping strangers
• Listening to learn
• Being on time
• Empowering others
• Being where your feet are
• Giving without expectations

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

PARENTS: The "Car Ride Home" has caused MANY Kids to Quit Team Sports.

How you talk to your child matters.

Here are the 5 Phrases that you should ever need to say to your child.

1: “I LOVE WATCHING YOU PLAY"
If you had to pick one statement to say to your child, this is it! There is no judgment or criticism. You are just letting your son or daughter know that you are a fan and that you love watching them play and compete. Nothing else is needed.

2: “I BELIEVE IN YOU”
Do you want to build confidence in your child? Tell them you believe in them. They need to hear this from adults. One of the most important things we can do as parents is instill confidence in our kids. It is hard enough being a kid in today's world. This is a powerful phrase to use.

3: "DO YOUR BEST"
We are all different. We all have different skill sets. All we can ever do is our best. This is the one thing my parents always said to me. Teach your child to pass the "mirror test." If they can look in the mirror and tell themselves that they genuinely did their very best, then that is all we can ever ask of ourselves.

4: "NEXT PLAY"
This is a move-on mindset. Don't dwell on a mistake and make another. Don’t celebrate after a great play so much that you lose your focus. This teaches kids about composure and poise. It teaches them to remain in the present, not dwell on the past, and not look too far ahead. It is a great life lesson.

5: "BE A GREAT TEAMMATE"
This is such an important life skill. Great teams are made up of great teammates. Being a great teammate is something that we can all control. Our world needs great teammates. Encourage your son or daughter to be a great teammate for their team. It is a lesson that will last a lifetime!

That's It! The Only 5 Phrases Kids Need to Hear.

Watch the video/commercial of the "Car Ride Home" below.

Don't be this parent.

Be Better.

🎥 Video Credit from True Sport: https://t.co/yCFa2daftn

https://t.co/77Fqj819XG
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[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

John Harbaugh said, "You have to come to the realization that you don't drive the car all of the time...You've got to have faith, trust, and belief. You've got to empower the people around you."

Great leaders believe they serve the team.

Servant leadership is the art of letting go and realizing that the real power of leadership is empowering others, caring for others, and giving them what they need.

Leadership isn't about receiving anything from your team, it's about giving and supporting the team.
• It comes down to caring.
• It comes down to wanting to see others at their best.
• It comes down to meeting people where they are at.

John Harbaugh Principles for Servant Leadership:
1. You don't drive the car all of the time
This is the art of letting go as a leader. You have to have faith and trust your team. Empower them, love them, and care for them. You have to be smart, tough, and use good judgment. It should be easy to serve them and want to see them at their best.

2. It shouldn’t be about where it takes you, it should be about where it takes us
It isn't about what you can accomplish, but asking what can we accomplish together. Ask yourself what can we build together that is special and can last? The goal should be to make it bigger than just the bottom line, whether that is winning games or making money.

3. Check your own heart
It should be about connecting and truly caring about your team. Ask yourself what is your motivation and intention behind what you are doing.
• Do you really care about your team?
• Are you showing it? Because you should.

4. Get feedback from everyone
Serve the team by learning from the team. John Harbaugh says the 4 most important words he asks someone is, "What do you think?"
• Ask for their ideas on improvement, growth, and change.
• Ask if they are happy and they feel they are doing their best.
• Let their voice be heard.

5. Find out who you need to be helping
It’s easy to just sit back and wait around, but you need to take action. You need to help people get to where they need to be. Ask:
• How are we doing?
• Where are we not performing?
• Are people having problems where I can help?
These are the areas where you need to look for improvement.

6. How we act around each other
It shouldn't just be about yourself, but it should be about the team. You should have a great attitude, be collaborative, and work together. If you can help each other accomplish what you need then you have a chance to be great. Ask:
• Are we helping each other
• Are we connecting?

"The first and most important choice a leader makes is the choice to serve, without which one’s capacity to lead is severely limited." - Robert Greenleaf
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[Ball is Psych @BallisPsych]

“Your number one contribution is the energy that you bring to what we’re doing.”

— Geno Auriemma

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

Late in the 2016 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, Villanova blew a 10-point lead.

With 4.7 seconds left, UNC hit a 3-pointer to tie the game.

Villanova's head coach, Jay Wright, called a timeout, and as his players walked to the huddle, they were all saying the same word:

“Attitude.”

“It's the most important aspect of our program,” Coach Wright explains in his book titled, Attitude. “We wear 'Attitude' wristbands. And when we break a huddle, we say '1, 2, 3, Attitude.'”

The test of Attitude, Wright taught his players, is:

“Where is your mindset after something bad happens to you?”

Where is your mindset after you blow a 10-point lead? Where is your mindset after your opponent hits a 3 to tie the game with 4.7 seconds left?

“When I looked into the eyes of our players,” Wright writes, “I saw no anger or regret. No one bemoaned [the UNC player's] 'lucky shot,' or that any of our guys had failed to stop him from grabbing the pass that led to that shot, or anything else.”

Instead, “they were all saying, 'Attitude. Attitude. This is what we do. Attitude. This is what we do.'”

With this mindset, the players returned to the court.

Villanova's Kris Jenkins inbounded the ball to Ryan "Arch" Arcidiacono. Arch dribbled up the left side of the court, crossed half court, cut right towards the 3-point arc, where he underhanded a pass to Jenkins, who caught the ball with 1.3 seconds left, and, in perfect rhythm, jumped then released the ball with 0.6 seconds, and hit a buzzer-beater to win the 2016 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.

Takeaway 1:

A primary indicator of physical fitness is recovery time. If you are doing all-out sprint intervals, for instance—people who are physically fit recover from one interval to the next faster than those who are not physically fit.

“So then, what is mental fitness?” the mental performance coach Greg Harden likes to ask. “Mental fitness is about recovery time,” Harden says.

It's about, as Coach Wright said, where your mindset is after something bad happens to you.

After something bad happens, people who are mentally fit recover faster than those who are not.

Takeaway 2:

Just after Kris Jenkins hit the buzzer-beater, Coach Wright famously barely reacted.

Before his guys went back on the court, he explained, “I processed all the potential scenarios.” Most likely, the game was going to go to overtime where UNC would ride their wave of momentum and win the game.

“No matter the outcome,” Wright continued, “because of the way our players responded after UNC tied the game ["Attitude. Attitude. This is what we do."]—I felt like they had the greatest lesson in life. I felt like that was an accomplishment that would follow them through their lives.”

Ryan Holiday once told me, “You have to get to a place where doing the work is the win and everything else is extra.”

Wright got to that place. He had done the work to instill in his players a mindset, he said, “that they would carry with them for the remainder of their days on earth.”

“In that sense, I knew we had already won.” Everything else was extra.

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“The fact is, none of us control what happens to us in life—but we do control our responses to those circumstances...no matter how tough it gets or how much of a challenge you face in the final 4.7 seconds of a game.” — Jay Wright

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[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Teachers love Admin who:
1) Jump in to help
2) Really listen
3) Present: in classrooms, hallways, cafeteria
4) Value teachers' time
5) Support/encourage them
6) Respect /value them
7) Have their back
8) Appreciate them
9) Seek input/feedback
10) See them as human 1st.