Coach Meyer Lipscomb Chapel Talk

Were were fortunate to have Coach Meyer speak to our team after practice on Monday and then address our student-athletes in Chapel on Thursday.  Below are the notes I took from his chapel talk:

• Power of the handwritten note
• Pick up the tab when you take someone from lunch
• The appreciation of people
• Take notes--common characteristic of 500 richest people
• Cornell Note system--improve GPA half a point
  • Notes 2/3 of page
  • Ideas in 1/3 of page (what's on the test, etc)
  • Write it all down and pick out what will work for you…
  • Get all the good ideas
• You are your own worst critic and best expert
• Don't be in a major because  parents picked it for you.
  • Do what you want to do
  • Ecc. 5:19-20--Gift of God to be happy in your work
• Never me a selfish person that wasn't unhappy.  Never me an unselfish person that wasn't happy.
• Warren Buffett
  • Three Things In Hiring:
    • Work Ethic
    • Intelligence--noticing the little things
    • Character
  • The first two without the last one will kill you
• Cool Springs Galleria started because a Lipscomb guy could be trusted
• Character is critical to all we do
• Judging Character:
  • Can tell a lot about a person when life is kicking their butt.--"Loser's limp"
  • How they react to a butt kicking
  • How someone treats someone who can't do anything for them or to them..R.A. Dickey is kind to little kids.
  • "Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see"--Mark Twain  
    • Who you are and who's you are
• Servant Leadership
  • Oswald Chambers--died in 1917--wife spend her life making sure his works were published.  He ran a Bible school.
  • Challenge you to get the disposition of Jesus.  Get to know and the Holy Spirit guides you to those opportunities.
  • Holy Spirit guides us to notice opportunities.
  • John 13--is all you need to know about servant leadership.  It's Jesus, what He did when He knew He was going to die and washed their feet.--(there was no pavement, lots of dead animals and excrement…No wingtips there and loafers)
    • John 13:13--Love Lord with heart, soul, mind and strength.  Love neighbor as self..Reason we are here.  Neighbor is the person who cheats you, etc.  Everyone is your neighbor…Not just who you pick and choose.  Jesus meant to love everyone, not the convenient.
  • Can't serve others when we are only concerned with ourselves.
  • George Washington corporal story
  • No sacrifice too big/ no task to small
• Decision Making--
  • Make the right decisions
  • Not just the easy, convenient or popular
• Morning Routine
  • John 12:23
  • Adrian Rogers (preacher from Memphis)
  • First thing in morning--thank You for dying for me
  • Thank your for saving me
  • Thank you for living in me
  • This is a level we must get to
• Romans 6:23 (a) and (b)
• 2 Handed gifts at Christmas--those are the special ones--because you hand them to the person with two hands.
• St. Francis of Asissi--idea of Christ's message.  Proclaim the message of Christ and occasionally use words--How you treat people.  Be different from the people in the world.
• We are only vessels to carry the message to other people
• Nothing we can do that the Lord can't do better.
• Study Suggestions
  • Only way to know Christ is through study
  • Go to your 3rd place--where work and family can't get to you
    • Read/ Study/ Pray
      
      • get yourself ready for the battle of the day.  Devil is ready to kick our butt.
  • Going through reading a chapter a day out loud.  See it, hear it and then think about the chapter all day.