30 Day Challenge / Writing

#ARTICHOKES March 4

by Coach4aday · March 4, 2023

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Today contribution to the 30-Day Letter Writing Coach4aday Challenge is on ARTICHOKES.

The challenge involves composing a letter to yourself when you were an earlier age. The goal is to focus on a value, habit, or choice that needs to be adopted or made.

Today I want to review an outcome that is connected to a very small act of kindness. An interaction at basketball game provided me with an abundance of Artichokes.

Day 4 Letter-Artichokes

April 1, 1994

Dear College Coach Dan:

Tomorrow April 2, 1994 is a big day. You are off to watch the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Final Four in Charlotte NC. You will get to watch Arkansas, Arizona, Duke, & Florida. Part of the experience will be taking your oldest son Geoff with you. It will be a short ride from your home in Rock Hill SC to the Coliseum out on Tyvola Rd. Surprisingly it won’t be basketball that will become memorable for you but how a random act with a stranger will have you become familiar with ARTICHOKES.

During half-time of the Duke-Florida game you went out to the concourse to use the restroom, grab a drink, and popcorn. As you are headed back to your seat you notice a gentleman eating an ice cream cone with it dripping down his chin. He has no napkin, so you stop and give him one. That interaction leads to a brief conversation where he gets a business card from you. He tells you he is from California and attending his first Final Four. It was life-long bucket list item for him.

Flash forward two weeks and a delivery truck pull up to your house in SC with a package from California. The box is not light and when you get it opened you realize it is a 10 lb. crate of ARTICHOKES. The man you gave a napkin to owns a large farm in California and sent you this as a thank you gift.

For the next few days, you learn about this green delicacy and share it with your friends.

Sometimes in life a simple act of kindness will lead to something serendipitous occurring in your life.

Have a great day!

Grown Up Dan

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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.