Every Coach Needs A Coach

Find something you, your players, and your family are doing well, and TELL them !

When you set out to do something (practice for an hour, coach a game, workout, take a vacation, you name it) - you should have a WHY for doing that thing. and at the end of it, you should darn well have achieved that WHY! 

TJ Rosene, the Templeton Plan, water the bamboo. All three of these encourage us to write down our values and to define them, so we can better understand ourselves, and use them to guide our decision making

How does the locker room look when your team leaves it ? How does your car look when you get out of it ? How you do anything is how you do everything. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/03/football/japan-belgium-russia-thank-you-locker-room-trnd/index.html

Sir John Templeton’s advice for getting better

I’m learning a lot about training dogs in preparing to get our puppy. Here’s one thing I learned, that also works on humans

“ love is giving someone the power to destroy us and trusting they won’t use it. “

At every coaches clinic, Gino Auriemma pulls this out of his bag of tricks

James clear talks about the concept of reprogramming your brain to enjoy hard habits through the concept of “get to vs. have to”

Are you living out your values every day ?

Leaders eat last, page 29 we cannot tell people to trust us. We cannot instruct people to come up with big ideas. And we certainly can’t demand the people cooperate. These are always results, the results of feeling safe and trusted among the people with whom we work

"One of the best secrets of a happy life is the art of extracting comfort and sweetness from every circumstance... People are always looking for happiness at some future time and in some new thing, or some new set of circumstances, in possession of which they some day expect to find themselves. But the fact is, if happiness is not found now, where we are, and as we are, there is little chance of i...

Actress Tallulah Bankhead said, "If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner."

Coach Tony Bennett is quoted as saying “if you learn to use it right, the adversity, it will buy you a ticket to a place you couldn’t have gone any other way “ where is your adversity buying you a ticket to ?

Oxytocin is known as our “love chemical”. Here’s why your team needs it in order to succeed

I have a patient whose granddaughter just graduated middle school, and walked in probably proclaiming, it’s a miracle! Little did I know that this granddaughter of hers was born at 1.5 lbs and almost didn’t make it. Every person we coach truly is a miracle.

Go listen to the song September by Earth wind and fire. You’ll hear what I’m talking about. “Don’t let the lyrics get in the way of the groove”

Happiness is not a destination, it is a way of life.

If you can find an obituary that says this person was a natural born X Y Z, and never had to put in any time or extra work, Dr. Gilbert will give you 100 grand.

James clear’s newsletter today says , "You don’t need a better computer to become a writer. You don’t need a better guitar to become a musician. You don’t need a better camera to become a photographer. What you need is to get to work."

I saw an interview with a businessman who noted that on occasion, if his kid wants to cuddle, or read, play an extra five minutes in the mornings, even if it means he’s late to a meeting, or his kid is late to school, he’s going to spend that extra time. Savor every moment and keep the important things, the important things

Eleanor Roosevelt said “great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, small minds talk about people “ what kinds of minds are you surrounding yourself with ?

“I’m noticing X, it makes me feel Y, I think a solution would be Z”

Paul revere drew a depiction of the Boston Massacre that was published in newspapers shortly after the event. It shows 1 side of the story. What side of the story is being told by you, and all the people in your program ? https://www.gilderlehrman.org/node/2148

Dr. Gilbert used to close every message on his success Hotline with the phrase, “don’t count the days, make the days count "