Habits
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Apr 1, 2025
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8 min read
A strong team culture doesn’t happen by accident.
Adversity
+7
Mar 27, 2025
Blaming, complaining, and making excuses don’t build champions. They create victims.
+4
Mar 25, 2025
6 min read
Release-Reset-Refocus: The Mental Reset Strategy for Unshakable Performance."
Culture
Mar 20, 2025
Preparation is the great separation. In life and in coaching. And building a great team is a lot like sharpening an ax.
Accountability
+5
Mar 4, 2025
10 min read
Setting goals is easy—sticking to them is always the challenge.
Feb 6, 2025
Positive coaching isn’t about sugarcoating the truth or avoiding tough conversations.
+8
Jan 23, 2025
9 min read
If you were in a tough, high-pressure situation—a “foxhole”—who would you want in there with you?
Jan 14, 2025
11 min read
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle
+3
Jan 7, 2025
As coaches, it is easy to focus on the end results: championships, records, or career-defining moments. But the foundation of success is always built on small wins.
Dec 26, 2024
As coaches, we often manage multiple tasks, responsibilities, and demands. But the truth is that if we don’t prioritize the big things, the smaller things will take over.
Dec 19, 2024
I’m convinced that leadership boils down to one thing: Energy. What type of leadership energy do you exude?
+6
Dec 12, 2024
Are you green and growing or are you red and rotting?
+9
Dec 5, 2024
Nick Saban doesn’t mince words. In his “Nothing” speech, he lays it out for his players.
Confidence
Oct 17, 2024
Winning is a way of life. It is how you do things. You cannot win just once in a while; you have to win every day.
Aug 22, 2024
Practice is the lifeblood of a program. It is where teams and individuals get better.
Aug 15, 2024
Michael Jordan was an intense competitor, but what fueled his fire? What were the "Logs" that were added to his competitive fire?
Jul 18, 2024
Focusing on What Matters in Coaching and Competition In sports, what you focus on can shape your reality.
Ego
Jul 11, 2024
Mental toughness often separates the good from the great. But how can coaches define, measure, and improve the mental toughness of their athletes?
Jul 4, 2024
In life and the world, everything compounds. Including sports.
May 30, 2024
In the world of sports, and life for that matter, athletes (and us as coaches) have two choices: We can be fountains or drains.
+12
Apr 25, 2024
7 min read
Sports are hard. Coaching is hard. Life is hard. It is a big reason we coach because we know the impact that sports have on young people in preparation for “handling the hard stuff” of life.
Apr 18, 2024
Winning is hard. Winning is so much more than the final score; it’s about being worthy of the victory.
Mar 7, 2024
The best coaches know that player-led teams win. How do you develop these leaders?
Jan 11, 2024
Championship seasons do not happen overnight. They happen through systemic and coordinated plans by coaches and stakeholders in the program.
+11
Dec 28, 2023
The underdog. It is always a great story! The emotion and joy that come from a victory that no one thought was possible.
