A flashback to some of my thoughts after we earned  beat Michigan last year in Ann Arbor. I can report that almost every fan interaction I saw in East Lansing was classy. I’m sure there were probably some alcohol induced slip-ups, but I was very proud of my Spartans, both…

By Scott Westerman “Character is what you do when nobody is watching.” – H. Jackson Brown “Someone is always watching.” – Scott Westerman  Suzy Merchant is one of my favorite people. She is competitive but humble. She embodies the Spartan Work Ethic, but always tries to prioritize family first. She has…

By Scott Westerman “Happiness is a choice we make” What can a Las Vegas cabbie and a TSA employee teach us about life?

I’ve been thinking long an hard about what’s appropriate for this 10th anniversary of 9/11. There can be no doubt that this horrific day was a defining moment for a generation of Americans. It brought sadness, suffering and death into our collective focus. We should never forget it. We should…

“Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which…

By Scott Westerman “Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Gandhi Running through the streets of Oxford in the pre-dawn Great Britain darkness, one can feel the presence of intellects past and present who came to this place with one…

By Scott Westerman “The strongest steel is forged in the hottest fire.” Over the last decade, Colleen and I have been among the care givers for four loved ones we ultimately lost to cancer. A year and a half ago, I took on the caregiver role when Colleen was diagnosed.…

By Scott Westerman Listen to an audio version of this message. “If it was easy, everybody would be doing it.” Lose weight without dieting! You, too, can live like a millionaire! Free muscles, fast! Get an MBA without going to class! Everyday we are bombarded by messages like these. They…

By Scott Westerman In The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Dan Millman writes, “When you don’t get what you want, you suffer. If you get it, you suffer too since you can’t hold on to it forever.”

By Scott Westerman “All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” -Brian Tracy I had the pleasure of meeting with the board of a small non-profit recently.…