I AM HEADING DOWN TO EAST CAROLINA

Well I am going to be heading down to see the East Pirates face the Golden Eagles of Southern Mississippi today. It will be the first time that I have been down to ECU since the opening weekend of the college football season. If the Pirates win today they will host CUSA Championship game next week most likely against Houston, if they will get ready for which ever bowl game that they are going to play in. Today in Charlottesville the Virginia Cavaliers will face Virginia Tech in which like will be Coach Groh's last game as the head coach of the Cavaliers, hopefully the Cavaliers will send him out a winner. In the I-AA playoffs today Richmond is at home against Elon and William & Mary is at home as well against Weber State. In high school football playoff action tonight two teams from the Central District will be in action and both of them will be on the road, Thomas Dale will be at Hermitage and Petersburg will be at Hanover. In college basketball action last night the VCU Rams beat Nevada 85-76 to improve to 4-1 overall. It is feels like a winter morning here in Colonial Heights, the temp is 34 and the wind is blowing pretty steady giving us a wind chill in the upper 20's. I am still tired from getting up at 4am yesterday. MICKEY

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To be effective
What is it that makes some people more effective than others? Is it skill, or luck, or secret knowledge?

More than anything else, it is a clear and consistent sense of purpose. When the objective is compelling enough, you will find a workable, effective way to make it happen.

To be effective, you must be effective toward some particular end. Clearly define, visualize and feel the reality of the goal, mentally weaving it into every part of your life.

Focus on why it must be done just as much as you focus on what is to be done. By very definition, an inspired performance requires inspiration.

Purpose provides that inspiration. Actions that clearly resonate with purpose will naturally gravitate toward higher and higher levels of effectiveness.

When it truly means something to you, you'll do it very well. What's even better is that in the achievement that surely comes, you'll find great fulfillment.
-- Ralph Marston
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