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Life Lessons

Life Lessons – Week of May 13

  • You have the power to change the World all it takes is an original idea
  • The future is not a place you go, it’s a place you create
  • “Protect their right to be children” — the fundamental response of parents, coaches influence have relative to the children for whom they provide guidance.
  • You are right, until you are wrong
  • Everything we do matters, because the effects of our actions reach far beyond ourselves
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Life Lessons – Week of May 6

  • Coaches should be far more aware of their ratio of “Negative Feedback” vs “Positive Feedback”
  • There is no bigger ‘turnoff’ than those persons who the only time you hear from them is when they need something
  • Fifty percent of the people asking for help, never follow up with a “Thank You”
  • Your trust in someone else, is your gift to them
  • A coach’s job is to change the hearts, minds & actions of those he leads in a positive manner
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Life Lessons – Week of April 29

  • When you interview for a job, the interview must be interactive–they question you—you question them—whoever asks the best questions wins
  • Most coaches have a ‘blind spot’ when it comes to assessment of a players talent level
  • Your job as a coach is to be certain, that your team gets better and more capable over the course of the season
  • Every coach should be intent on growing the capacity of the team. If you don’t grow capacity over time your time will always be average
  • Don’t get stuck coaching a team that cannot grow
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Life Lessons – Week of April 22

  • Coaches spend too much time on the “How” of things and not enough on the “Why” of things
  • Every player is required to add value to his team
  • Each coach is responsible to take advantage of each players core strengths
  • It is the wise coach who puts each player in positions to do what he/she does best.
  • As a coach if you don’t let your team help make YOU better you shouldn’t be coaching.
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Life Lessons – Week of April 15

  • Success leaves clues…
  • Spend more time working on your strengths than your weaknesses
  • It is the wise coach who puts each player in a position to do what he/she does best
  • The master coach creates enough latitude for his players to discover their own greatness
  • How many coaches are in constant search of ‘game changing’ ideas or opportunities?
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Life Lessons – Week of April 8

  • The best advice we give should be to ourselves, not to others
  • Your trust in someone else is your gift to them
  • When our love for someone is not contingent on anything that they give or do, they can never give us reason to stop loving them.
  • One of the biggest challenges of our lives, is to remain mindful of who we are and what we are doing.
  • Change is the most enduring feature of our existence
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Life Lessons – Week of April 1

  • Be “You” — Its easier to maintain because you don’t have to act how you are suppose to act. Be Real.
  • How many coaches teach players how to be leaders? Don’t tell them they should be a leader, show them how to be a leader
  • To see others, you need a pair of eye, to see yourself, you need a mirror of your own mind.
  • Everything we do has an impact on someone
  • Don’t plant the seeds of your own trouble.
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Life Lessons – Week of March 25

  • Parents will tolerate behaviors of their child that they would never tolerate in any other relationship
  • Very few things in life will change unless each of us decide to become “positive difference makers”
  • Acknowledge the past, learn from it and move on.
  • Don’t just be good, be great.
  • Our journey in life is about learning and growing everyday, in every way.
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Life Lessons – Week of March 4

  • Factors that determine a positive first impression are: your smile, dress, handshake and vocabulary.
  • A coach’s job is to change the hearts, minds and actions of those he leads in a positive manner.
  • It’s always helpful to have a collection of friends in “high places”
  • Focus on self-awareness. Know what you don’t know. Know your limitations.
  • The best place to carry your ego is in your back pocket. There’ll be times you’ll be happy you are sitting on it.
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