Spring training is over and the baseball season is in full swing! I'm not just referring to the MLB, but Heritage Makers Consultants started a baseball season of their own this April and the race to the pennant runs through August.

I love the name that we picked for our team - "Field of Dreamers." If you have seen the movie Field of Dreams, then you're familiar with the line, "Build it, and they will come." The same holds true for what we do as Heritage Makers consultants...if you believe in the mission and vision of building lasting legacies of family heritage and strengthening home and family through the power of story, then others will follow your lead. Families everywhere need this and my hope is someday soon we won't have tragedies like what happened in Virginia.

There's a excerpt from John Maxwell's book, "Developing the Leaders Around You," that I think you will enjoy.

If your team members believe in the goals of the team and begin to develop genuine trust in one another, they will be in a position to demonstrate true teamwork...For there to be teamwork, several things must happen. First, team members must genuinely believe that the value of the team's success is greater than the value of their own individual interests. Second, personal sacrifice must be encouraged and then rewarded - by the team leader and the other members of the team. As this happens, the people will identify themselves more and more with the team, and they will recognize that individualism wins trophies, but teamwork wins pennants.

GO TEAM! LET'S PLAY BALL!