Development Vs Obedience
We have choices when we develop people, whether it is kids, soccer players, team members, employees, or anyone. We can give them the goals and the tools and guide their process or we can tell them how to complete the job. One of these is development and growth, the other is obedience to a system.
Coaching Vs Managing
If we stick to formulas and what has been done before we will only see the results we have seen before. If we allow room for creativity, accept mistakes, and learn from the moments that didn’t go well we will create an environment of growth, and that is how success becomes part of the DNA.
Great Expectations
Choose your goals, and ask yourself how much will you sacrifice before you are prepared to accept defeat, and how much will your habits hinder you? Are you determined to create new paths for success? This will tell you how much you really want it, and whether your are ready to go all out for success.
A Tale Of One City
This week we’ll look at the traits of the successful empire builders, and the traits of the less successful. It may sound obvious, but the biggest key to success – whether you are coaching a High School team or one of the biggest clubs in the world, know your people.
Aliens, Ghosts, And Conditioning
When bad things happen to us, as Frankl says, we have options on how we behave. However, when we are under stress we may not be thinking as clear as we might. There is value in preparing (or conditioning) a measured response so when the time comes you are able to manage your behaviours and not dig ourselves a bigger hole.
Conditioning Or Freedom?
If we accept that we have some influence over our environment and train ourselves to respond in a way where there is a positive outcome, we won’t need to make a decision in the miniscule gap between stimulus and response, our response will already be practiced and made permanent, if not perfect.
Our List Of Excuses
I have learned that being a youth soccer coach is much, much more than coaching soccer. Life is a series of moments and decisions, make them count, make the next moment better than this one.
Positions Vs Roles
This week we have looked at the importance of having a healthy attitude towards winning, and that winning should be the result we are working towards if we are competing. There are a number of reasons we may play a sport: health and fitness, social meetings, fun, the feeling of being on a team, injury…
The Will To Win
A desire to win is a great thing. However, we need to make sure our drive is to internal and improves us, and not external for the trophies. if we allow our need to win trophies take over, it isn’t long before an asterisk is placed next to our name and spoken alongside names like Tonya Harding, Lance Armstrong, the Deflatriots, and Diego Maradona.