Category: Coaching

Get Your Superman on!

Core Story:Building a Personal Code

Building Your Core Story Tony Robbins gives a great talk on building rituals. Much of which is how we talk to ourselves. And others. He says: You better take control of your state. Every one of you is controlled by your rituals. The rituals that worked in the reaping time of fall and the markets […]

How to Get an Athletic Scholarship

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Drew Bledsoe and Goals

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Getting a Player Closer to His Truth

This has tons of culture and team building built into the process. It also hopefully teaches the individual how we want to lie to ourself. And that the self that is Superman starts with some self honesty. In what we teach early on is the battle of Mr Whiner and Superman.

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Play

Sports are supposed to be fun. They are supposed to be about play. Too often we put rules on the process and make it serious. In the photo above how many well intended adults do you know that would try and explain to this child that the items seen. A basketball and a football helmet […]

Goal Setting to Never Be Present

Often times people get lost in goal setting and either get stuck when it is achieved. Or are so busy in the future they are not in the here and now where things get done. This also can lead people and teams to want to win at all costs while forgetting or not even creating […]

A Multiple Metaphor Approach to Team Building

By my final year as a coach I started each practice with deep breaths, and “put your superman on!” poses. There are many reasons that this was brilliant in my view. Controlling physiology is huge in athletics and in life. And since I was more interested in their big game. This was something that got […]