https://www.hubgets.com/blog/5-incredible-olympic-stories-that-will-inspire-you-to-never-give-up/ watch that video about Wilma Rudolph, who was diagnosed with Polio as a child in the 1950s. The Olympics are a great time to understand the stories behind our athletes and heroes. Remember that we all have the potential to be great, but the discipline, training, and commitment to get us there is what makes these olympians unique 88 – Everyone has a story, some may be heart-breaking yet they are all ...
Jul 18, 2021•4 min
New Zeland All Blacks Coach Dave Hadfield said "if you chase 5 rabbits, you catch none". which rabbits are you and/or your players chasing? Would you catch one of them if you just focused on it?
Jul 17, 2021•2 min
Source - James Clear’s newsletter A parable from priest and therapist Anthony de Mello on the stories we tell ourselves: "A man found an eagle's egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chickens and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air. Years passed and...
Jul 16, 2021•3 min
“Great coaches are learners who are obsessed with giving you the tools and support to make you a little bit better every day.” -Daniel Coyle
Jul 15, 2021•3 min
When the caterpillar emerges from a cocoon as a butterfly, it needs to struggle in order for its wings to build strength. Our athletes are the same way. They need to go through the struggle in order to gain confidence and get stronger.
Jul 14, 2021•3 min
Find something you, your players, and your family are doing well, and TELL them !
Jul 13, 2021•3 min
When you set out to do something (practice for an hour, coach a game, workout, take a vacation, you name it) - you should have a WHY for doing that thing. and at the end of it, you should darn well have achieved that WHY!
Jul 12, 2021•4 min
TJ Rosene, the Templeton Plan, water the bamboo. All three of these encourage us to write down our values and to define them, so we can better understand ourselves, and use them to guide our decision making
Jul 12, 2021•4 min
How does the locker room look when your team leaves it ? How does your car look when you get out of it ? How you do anything is how you do everything. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/03/football/japan-belgium-russia-thank-you-locker-room-trnd/index.html
Jul 10, 2021•3 min
Sir John Templeton’s advice for getting better
Jul 10, 2021•3 min
I’m learning a lot about training dogs in preparing to get our puppy. Here’s one thing I learned, that also works on humans
Jul 08, 2021•3 min
“ love is giving someone the power to destroy us and trusting they won’t use it. “
Jul 07, 2021•4 min
At every coaches clinic, Gino Auriemma pulls this out of his bag of tricks
Jul 07, 2021•2 min
James clear talks about the concept of reprogramming your brain to enjoy hard habits through the concept of “get to vs. have to”
Jul 05, 2021•5 min
Are you living out your values every day ?
Jul 04, 2021•2 min
Leaders eat last, page 29 we cannot tell people to trust us. We cannot instruct people to come up with big ideas. And we certainly can’t demand the people cooperate. These are always results, the results of feeling safe and trusted among the people with whom we work
Jul 03, 2021•2 min
"One of the best secrets of a happy life is the art of extracting comfort and sweetness from every circumstance... People are always looking for happiness at some future time and in some new thing, or some new set of circumstances, in possession of which they some day expect to find themselves. But the fact is, if happiness is not found now, where we are, and as we are, there is little chance of it ever being found. There is a great deal more happiness around us day by day than we have the sense...
Jul 02, 2021•4 min
Actress Tallulah Bankhead said, "If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner."
Jul 01, 2021•4 min
Coach Tony Bennett is quoted as saying “if you learn to use it right, the adversity, it will buy you a ticket to a place you couldn’t have gone any other way “ where is your adversity buying you a ticket to ?
Jun 30, 2021•3 min
Oxytocin is known as our “love chemical”. Here’s why your team needs it in order to succeed
Jun 29, 2021•3 min
I have a patient whose granddaughter just graduated middle school, and walked in probably proclaiming, it’s a miracle! Little did I know that this granddaughter of hers was born at 1.5 lbs and almost didn’t make it. Every person we coach truly is a miracle.
Jun 28, 2021•3 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Go listen to the song September by Earth wind and fire. You’ll hear what I’m talking about. “Don’t let the lyrics get in the way of the groove”
Jun 27, 2021•3 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Happiness is not a destination, it is a way of life.
Jun 26, 2021•2 min•Season 2Ep. 37
If you can find an obituary that says this person was a natural born X Y Z, and never had to put in any time or extra work, Dr. Gilbert will give you 100 grand.
Jun 25, 2021•3 min•Season 2Ep. 36
James clear’s newsletter today says , "You don’t need a better computer to become a writer. You don’t need a better guitar to become a musician. You don’t need a better camera to become a photographer. What you need is to get to work."
Jun 25, 2021•3 min•Season 2Ep. 35
I saw an interview with a businessman who noted that on occasion, if his kid wants to cuddle, or read, play an extra five minutes in the mornings, even if it means he’s late to a meeting, or his kid is late to school, he’s going to spend that extra time. Savor every moment and keep the important things, the important things
Jun 23, 2021•4 min•Season 3Ep. 26
Eleanor Roosevelt said “great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, small minds talk about people “ what kinds of minds are you surrounding yourself with ?
Jun 22, 2021•3 min•Season 2Ep. 35
“I’m noticing X, it makes me feel Y, I think a solution would be Z”
Jun 21, 2021•4 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Paul revere drew a depiction of the Boston Massacre that was published in newspapers shortly after the event. It shows 1 side of the story. What side of the story is being told by you, and all the people in your program ? https://www.gilderlehrman.org/node/2148
Jun 21, 2021•4 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Dr. Gilbert used to close every message on his success Hotline with the phrase, “don’t count the days, make the days count "
Jun 19, 2021•3 min•Season 2Ep. 31
