Lessons from Cancer
A little over six months ago I finished my last chemotherapy treatment for something I didn’t plan for and didn’t want. Cancer creates a lot of anxiety because there is never anything...
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Why Sports Matter
Why Sports Matter We hear a lot about the darker side of sports, the side where money confuses priorities. Coaches that jump ship for other schools before their contracts are up. Scandals...
Competitiveness Has To Be Trained
A thing that coaches emphasize with athletes, write about it, recruit for it, and prize is having athletes who are competitive. This is also something that is difficult because it is an...
Hustle Tells You A Lot About A Team
I did a Twitter post about hustle. In today’s me-first social media culture, it’s actually important to talk about why this is an important quality for both athletes and coaches. For me,...
Thoughts on Success
Let me start this post by describing a situation. We have someone thinking, hey our team did great last year. So we’re just going to go through the motions, kind of do...