Joe Moglly is committed to his head at the bottom of his office for a moment, and retracts a heavy link.
“See this file?” He said. “I have three of these.”
Thousands of mglia publications lie between the lines of these pages: a 19 -year -old university student who supports his wife and daughter born by driving a taxi and office truck in New York City while working in his father’s store in Bronx. Successful CEO of TD Amertrade. Coastal Carolina.
The connective tissue weaves all of these different souls together are his “special notes”, which are a series of magazine entries whose value is more than 50 years to store his consciousness layers. Notes are a process believes that anyone can use it to learn more about themselves and make great decisions.
The process is clear. First, Moglia sits in front of his note and demands himself: What is my favorite music? Do you like Bruce Springstin? Why do I love him? What are my skills groups? What am I good at? What am I bad in? How does my career look now? What do you want to look?
The goal of increasingly specific questions is to make them add over time to answer a larger and broader question: Who am I
More importantly, Moglia refuses to tell anyone what he wrote, especially if he discovers perceived. The goal is to determine who is exactly and how he feels without the judgment or influence of others.
In this way, when large decisions are needed, he knows himself well enough to understand the options that you will best serve.
He said: “Anytime I do anything big in my life, I went through it.”
How did he know that he was ready to leave New York and try to train? What made him realize that it is time to leave training and go to Wall Street? Why did he feel comfortable leaving TD Ameritrade to give university football a last shot?
He said: “I went directly to the legal pillow.”
In 1971, Moglia was specialized in economics in Fordam and football training on the side. With graduation approaching, as well as the first major professional decision.
“If I can get a high school training job, I will follow a training profession,” he told his wife. “If not, we will try to go to Wall Street.”
He applied to 100 schools and received a call from the Archmere Academy, a Catholic Secondary School in Klimon, Del. He kept asking himself: What leads me?
“I just started writing – down,” said Maglia.
He wrote every thought and feeling he had about his life, which led himself to questions about his interests, aspirations and personal life.
“Just keep writing,” he said. “Don’t stop. Just keep writing.”
The first part of his operation was born, and Moglly took the job at the Archmere Academy.
Later that year, Moglia was in New Jersey Turnpike, on his way to meet his new team. He felt enthusiastic and wanted to have a good initial impression, so he decided to provide an exercise in the new magazines for the players. He was called “spiritual safety”.
He told his players about the first part of the self-discovery process-about the reason for the importance of “standing on his feet” and “bearing responsibility for themselves.” He made it clear how it becomes easier if you take enough time to apply questions and write enough to learn exactly who you are and what you believe in.
But he also stressed an important point: They needed to make sure they did not share their observations or investigations with anyone.
“The whole idea here is that this is to examine the conscience with yourself, with God, with whom, but he is not another person.” “We tend to become a compound from the people around us. The first time you go to anyone else, the closest person in your life, what you do not do is that you are looking for them to confirm what your thinking is. This is the basic point. We are not looking for that. We are looking for you to know who you are.”
Joe Moglia left his role as CEO of TD Ameritrade and joined the Nebraska Football Program as a volunteer. (Bill Frex Photo
It was not long before Mughalia climbed his way to team training, which helped to direct the football team at Lafayette College before the defensive coordinator in Dartmouth became in 1981. There was, in his first season, he received divorce papers and moved to the storage room over the football offices.
Two years later, he says, he received a dream of a coach at Miami University, the home of the national heroes. Once again, Moglia returned to Soundness Soundness: Professional and Personal, What are the positives and negatives?
Professionally, it was sold. He said he could have a perfect job. “If he accepted it, he thought he would succeed and one day can achieve one of his dreams: to become the main coach in a major school.
Personally, however, he was not convinced.
He remembered the first step of the spiritual safety process that he created with himself: taking responsibility for yourself. He thought of who was a father, who wanted to be a father and how the job would affect this part of his life.
“How can I do this and not the most likely to the level of my responsibilities as a father?” He said. “I have four children. I’m fine to make decisions. I’m not fine. I feel guilty.”
“The most difficult professional decision I made in my life.” But this was the goal of his magazine.
“You reach a point where you go, do you know what? This is me.” This is the truth, this is what I am. These are good points and bad points, but this is what I am. Once you understand that you are now your ability to make the right decision under pressure, the possibility rises dramatically. The more times when you can make the right decision under pressure, you cash, you increase the possibility that you feel satisfied with who you are. You will feel satisfied. “
Soon after, he took his magazine again with a new realization. He still had a stay in Wall Street. It has started what is now the second step in his process: Get courage and get to know that you will need to live with the consequences of your actions.
So he started communicating.
In the eighties of the last century, without his own contacts, he approached the graduate groups in Fordham and the two schools where he trained, Lavaite and Dartmouth, and the request of names and numbers. Slowly, he built a list of people who worked in Wall Street and started to contact cold.
He said: “I had one minute stadium saying something similar,” I realize that I had no Master of Business Administration from Harvard University, however, I have this. “I got a doctorate in life things. I think I have the skills sets you are looking for. “
He spent about three months to chase the threads. In the end, he ended up in the Merrill Lynch Master of Corporation Training Program. He said he was the only one in the program without a master’s degree in business management. He spent the next 17 years in the company.
In 2008, Moglia was stepped as CEO of TD Ameritrade seven years later.
He said: “I have never been a demand in my life.”
But he realized that he still had an interest in training university football again.
He knew what he wanted to do is unusual. He knew that he was financially lucky; There was nothing to worry about money. He also asked: Will I get a job? This thought followed another: I will be good in this. Perhaps someone, my background, it’s unique, may give me someone a chance.
Through his spiritual safety process, he discovered exactly the reason he wanted to return to football. It was not a great admirer; He said he prefers to watch TV programs from a game. But he enjoyed the football strategy and believed in his ability to influence the players.
“The real football game is like a master’s chess, but with 22 people move once. I’m very good in it.” “The ability to assemble a full program. I’m very good in it.”
to think: Maybe I have an opportunity to return and see what I can do.
His magazines explained: It should go. Moglia started in 2009 as a CEO of Bilini, then the main coach in Nebraska. A year later, he was appointed as a lead coach for Virginia destroyers, a new team in the United Football League. Then he became president and head of the UFL.
Finally, in 2011, he won his chance: Coastal Carolina, which was then the football championship division program, made the school coach in history. Moglia won 72 percent of its matches, including successive seasons of 12 wins and four consecutive manifestations in the FCS qualifiers. In 2014, Coastal Carolina started season 11-0 and ranked first for the first time in the history of the program. Bring his “spiritual hand” with him and the players.
After the 2018 season, Moglia announced that he would step down as a coastal coach in Carolina, but he remained active in the field of leadership. He held the position of head of athletics and CEO of Coastal until the summer of 2024 and is still the CEO of the coastal Carolina President. 10 speeches have gave a start, including in Coastal and Fordham, Mother’s pain. At Miami University’s Business Administration, he talked about how to become an effective leader.
As always, all methods lead to “spiritual safety” and the process that has been developed for more than 50 years.
To this day, it still tends to this process, even in the personal declines to complete the exercise throughout the year. Recently, he sat during the holidays and reviewed all the three volumes that contain his fake notes from the passage of years, a journey that never ends to learn more about himself and his life.
He said: “Everyone says they know who they are, but they do not know.” “I would like to say,” please, you should go through this exercise. “I think each of us wants to be happy in life. It is very difficult to feel happy if you are not satisfied with your identity.”
(Clarification: Dan Goldfarb / Athlete; Jason Smith.
