#Unsung April 8

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April 2026 will take a slightly different approach to the 30-Day Challenge. Each day of the month, I’ll be participating in the 30-Day Tai Chi Coach4aday Challenge. What will be different this time is that my daily posts won’t be limited to that day’s exercises—I want the freedom to share more spontaneous and wide-ranging thoughts along the way.

I will still include the focus of each day’s Tai Chi routine, but much of what I write may explore topics far removed from exercise. Just as Tai Chi is designed to improve flexibility, I hope my writing reflects that same sense of openness and adaptability each day. For Day Eight I’m going to revisit an UNSUNG Inventor.

“Tai Chi” 30 Day Challenge

Searching online for a 30-Day program brought me face to face with lots of options but I have chosen a plan led by Dr Alan Potts PT. You can download the schedule I am utilizing at this link.

It looks like this.

Challenge Guidelines

  1. View the daily video and mirror what you see.
  2. Complete all 30 daily exercises

Day 8-Tai Chi for Building Resistence

Alan’s Day 8 exercise routine can be viewed below:

April 8th-Unsung Inventor

Often people become so synonymous with something associated with their name we might not realize what other accomplishments they have had in their life. That is the case with William Powell Lear. Yes, he is the inventor of the Lear Jet.

Powell’s life is fascinating and not entirely filled with success stories. Powell took the existing 4 track technology that existed in the 1960’s and became the unsung inventor who created the 8 Track.

8 Track players in cars were very prevalent in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. The first car manufacture to offer a factory installed player was Ford in 1966.

There is a YouTube channel called “Feed My Curiosity” which has a short YouTube video on the evolution of the 8-track player.

Coach4aday

My purpose in life is to coach. I am a former collegiate basketball coach, director of athletics, and chief of staff. I worked at four NCAA Division I & II universities during my career. At each campus I learned timeless lessons on teamwork and leadership. Today my passion is coaching others on what it takes to lead, serve, and succeed.

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