#FreeAdvice March 4
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March 2026 marks the 75th consecutive month that Jeff Neelon, Jaclyn Donovan, and I have completed a 30-Day Coach4aday Challenge. For this milestone month, we’ve chosen to focus on teaching. Each day for 30 days, we will share one lesson, principle, or insight gained from the previous 74 challenges—calling it the 30-Day Coach4aday Teach It Challenge. For each of us we believe that our own personal growth increases when we share it. Today it is sharing the FREE ADVICE I learned from others.
In May 2021, I shared some of the most meaningful life lessons I had learned from others. Each one made a powerful impact at the time—and they continue to guide me today.
Today, I’m revisiting and resharing that timeless, free advice.
“Teach It” 30 Day Challenge Guidelines
In past challenges, we invited others to join us, though participation has been limited. This month, the three of us will return to January 2020—the very beginning—and move forward to the present, reflecting along the way and sharing a life lesson or insight from any month with one another.
Here is how we will do it.
- Identify the principle, insight, or lesson from a previous 30-Day Challenge-identify the Challenge also.
- Teach that lesson to each of us.
- Share the conversation by posting on social media with the hashtag #Coach4adayChallenge
Day 4-Free Advice
FREE ADVICE LESSONS
- God has a wonderful plan for your life, but it is not your plan-Received that gem from my wife after ten years of being an assistant college basketball coach. She spoke this to me after I failed again to land an interview to become a head basketball coach. I had tried repeatedly but ten years as an assistant I still had not been interviewed let alone be offered a head coaching job. When I accepted that God was in charge within two months, I was offered a job before I even applied.
- You can’t turn down something that hasn’t been offered to you–This was my dad attempting to keep me grounded during those ten years of attempting to go from Assistant to Head Coach. I would get my hopes up and debate whether I would accept the job if offered. I was so naïve.
- Pay yourself first–Lacey Gane was the Director of Athletics at UNC Pembroke (then Pembroke State) he brought me in his office and locked the door. He said you are not leaving until you fill out this paper for deferred compensation. It was my first week on the job. I was making $833 a month but decided to withhold $25 a month. The rest of my career when I got a raise I took part of that increase and added it to my monthly deduction. That strategy paid dividends when I got to retirement age.
- If you want people to donate money, ask them for advice-if you want people to give you advice ask them for money”-Heard this from Wendell Staton who got it from Tom Childress
- A meeting is no more than 60 minutes long and has a written agenda-if it is longer than that call it a workshop, conference, retreat, or a BS session but don’t call it a meeting. –One of my many mentors Ray Pennington
- Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results-College Health Professor at East Carolina-Lionel Kendrick
- You are never more open on the basketball court then when you first catch the ball-be prepared to shoot–Chuck Daly
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