Every Coach Needs A Coach

Players play. Coaches coach. Officials officiate. Parents support. What roles does everyone play in your program ?

Yesterday, we got to celebrate Pierce’s third birthday and I learned a valuable lesson while playing with the kids

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments Where are you or your players conforming ? Do you even realize it ? 57 – Asch Conformity Experiments are used to study how people yield or defy a majority group. 2 cards: A and B. Which line matched on both cards? If two people in a room could discuss their answers (one an actor) normally one doesn’t change their answers, but two actors w...

Remember what was in Michael Jordan’s secret stuff in space jam? Everything we need is already inside of us.

As coaches, we are a problem solver’s, but sometimes we just need to be there for our people

Do you have faith in your players? Do they have faith in you? A lesson from Monsignor Kelly this morning

Here’s the story of the 4 oxen , who had each other’s backs. One day they didn’t, and a lion brought each one to its end.

Bob Proctor once said, “Everyone is born rich, most people don’t have a lot of money.” What he meant was that we all have the same capacity to fulfill our unique potential. Do you believe in your athletes? Or do you believe in their potential?

“It’s not about the Xs & Os, it’s about the Susie‘s and the Joe‘s”

In my conversation with a podcast guest yesterday, he mentioned that why he coaches is because he gets to serve his team. In What ways are you serving your team?

What kind of environment are you providing for your athletes? What kind of environment are you providing for yourself to be able to grow?

Yesterday, we were playing a game with all my nieces and nephews, and my niece encountered a challenge that allowed me to practice what I preach.

According to psychologist Scott Bari, narcissistic people feel entitled, well confident people understand that they might be good, but they’re probably not the best in the world. What do you or your players feel entitled to?

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “every man I meet is my superior in someway, in that way, I learned from him “. Who are you surrounded by that you can learn from? The answer, is everyone.

If you woke up today with only the things that you were grateful for yesterday, what would you still have?

That girls on the run today, our message to ourselves was, “you are stronger than you think”. That holds true for our athletes, as well as for you as a coach

Coach John wooden has a famous definition of success. Success is peace of mind knowing you did all you could to become the best version of yourself. Challenge you to remind your players of this, and use that as your barometer for success in the future

Rather than relying on yourself to remember to do some thing, or practice something, or change something, alter your environment that you will have to do that thing, and see how simple it can really be to accomplish what you want to accomplish

1- what am I currently doing that I should do more of? 2- what am I currently doing that I need to stop doing? 3- What am I not doing that I need to start doing? You need to have courage to hear the answers to these, but I guarantee you they’ll help you learn more about yourself, and grow as a person

I don’t know anyone who’s out here messing up on purpose. Here’s a little story on an interaction I had with a player a few weeks ago

Two little fish are swimming in the ocean, looking for something. They come across two older fish, and ask “hey, can you help us find the ocean?” And the two big fish look at each other, laugh, look back at the kids and say “you’re in it “. Appreciate the process and the relationships you make along the way.

Giving and taking away confidence is a really powerful tool to allow someone else to Have control over. Believe in your players potential, and make sure they understand that their value as a human being has nothing to do with how good they are at sports

“We choose to go to the moon not because it is easy, but because it is hard.“

Just because something is simple, doesn’t make it easy to do. Boil down what you’re trying to do to the absolute necessities, and then stay consistent with it. The simplicity makes it easy the consistency makes it difficult

In his Monday motivation yesterday, Mano Watsa presented the idea that we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with. I challenge you to look at your five people, whether it’s physical or digital, and ensure if that’s where you want to go