8 Ways to Pump Up Your At-Home Workout
Why are at-home workouts so much harder than team training and group classes? Because there is: No schedule or called practice time insisting you show up. No one counting your reps or yelling at you to stay with it. No peer pressure to shame you into keeping the pace. No one to follow when you […]
The Dynamic Warm-Up, Why Do it?
This week I met with a group of high school basketball players starting their pre-season conditioning. They headed straight for the end line to start warm-ups, and then … waited for me to tell them what to do. Me: Do you have a standard warm up? Players: (looking at each other) Uh, not really. Me: […]
Women Do Success Differently
The celebration of International Women’s Day has gotten our attention. Here in the States, “A Day without a Woman” has resulted in some school districts closing for the day because so many teachers have requested leave. This has left thousands of children without instruction and perhaps without lunch, or mentoring or supervision or care. I know this […]
Why All A’s is Failing our Kids
Kids today are the most evaluated generation ever, but are they any better prepared than we were? A Facebook friend who teaches in the local schools recently posted a photo of his grade book with names primly truncated. There was not a grade below an A, with several achieving the superlative A+. It was captioned, “Never […]
Kickstarting Our 2016 thanks to John Acuff
Love this list from John Acuff in his 30 Days of hustle challenge to kickstart 2016. How many can you get done in 2016? 1. Pick a goal. 2. Find your why. 3. Get your how. 4. Make it fun or it won’t get done. 5. Win with when. 6. Make where a priority. 7. Fight […]
Bringing Out Their Best: motivation as art and story
Once upon a time there was a little girl. She could really catch and really throw, but the thing she could do best was hit. Every time up, she swung that bat and sent the ball way into the outfield. One day, Coach said, “Wow! How do you do that?!” “I don’t know,” the girl […]
Failure Isn’t fatal
Failure isn’t fatal, it’s fortunate. In fact, it’s necessary. Somehow, failure has come to be synonymous with worthless, hopeless, futureless and bad. We hear it as a judgment on ourselves, our kids, and our families. You’re a total failure. Take your ball and go home. We don’t want you here. Can we take a new […]
Want Them to Play with Urgency? Tell them the Final Whistle is About to Sound
A goal down and five minutes on the clock. There’s nothing like the play of a team in the final minutes of the game. There’s focus, determination, energy, persistence. They throw caution to the wind and attack relentlessly. They’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain. Go for it! When the final whistle is […]
The Key to Keeping Your Resolve: Find a Good Coach
Making resolutions is easy. Keeping them is hard. Why? Because we are very clear on where we’d like to end up, what we’d like to do, how we’d like to look or act or feel. We see people accomplishing things all around us. Success stories that we find inspiring and motivational. If they can do […]
Good Job, Good Effort — Really?
Rewind to June 2012: The Boston Celtics win Game 5 of the NBA Finals over the Miami Heat and go up 3-2 in the series. The ever-present TV cameras catch the mood of the losing team as they head into the locker room after the devastating loss before a home crowd. Listen to the kid […]
