January 16, 2006

• Great weekend, week ahead -

  Traveling for business has slowed down a bit in the last month, but is all set to crank up again, and it did this past weekend.  I traveled to Wisconsin to work with the Nicolet Bible Institute students at Silver Birch Ranch in White Lake, WI.  This has become a semi-annual deal where I go back up to the camp I have long been affiliated with and try and give back to the place that has helped me so much.  Danielle was able to come with me and we got a day of skiing in at Ski Brule and we worked with the students and staff at Silver Birch on Friday.  It is so much fun and very energizing to help people figure out how they are wired, where they are headed, and maybe for what purpose.  Some of the staff went through this with me last year and they had more questions nine months later for me, as sometimes this stuff takes time to settle in and make sense.  All in all, a great weekend.  Special thanks to Dan and Sharon for having us over for dinner on Saturday night. 

  
  

  This week will be incredibly full, today is a 'day off' but I will still crank things out here at home.  I have lots of volleyball - and then Friday I am flying to Seattle to work with Leadership Vision at a church named Timberlake in Redmond, WA.  I am excited to head to a hopefully not to rainy Seattle.  That will be a quick 1.5 day trip and then I will be back to coach my volleyball team on Sunday in a power league.

  
  

  Speaking of our volleyball club, MN Select, funny thing happened the other day when I started reading the Sunday paper.  I saw this picture which I have imported for you on the left.  A young lady with a MN Select t-shirt on was on the front page of the Minneapolis Star Tribune: 

  
  

  http://www.startribune.com/526/story/183139.html

  
  

  This article makes the case about young players and how they are doing too much at a young age with sports, etc. etc.  On the one hand, it was great to have MN Select be on the cover of the largest newspaper in the city and state, but on the other side of things the article portrayed club volleyball in a bad light.  The best part was they did not talk about how club volleyball is totally optional and parents and players need to make a decision of whether to take some time off from sports - etc.  Anyway, interesting article about what I am involved with.  It did make me think about my players and making sure they don't push themselves too hard -  Here is one more point I have about this article.  So, many girls play three sports in high school, these girls who play club volleyball are just not playing a sport in school for that season and are choosing to play out of the high school system, so it is really not that big of a deal.  At any rate - Just thought I would share.  And as they say in the PR business - all publicity is good publicity. 
  
  More later this week.  JVD

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