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  • Let’s try this again

    After the fun of bloganuary, I certainly petered off on this site. It is time for me to get it going again. I want to get back on a regular posting schedule here, with at least one post per week. That is my goal.  Part of the issue is that without out that concrete goal…

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  • Sports are not magic

    Why did you put your kids into sports? Was it because you wanted them to learn a life skill? Maybe you thought about how you grew as a person from your athletic days, how you got good at time management, became healthier, and gained more overall confidence. You only want the same for your kid.…

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  • Trust is built

    When you think about it, saying that trust is built over time is an incredibly accurate way to put it. You have to continuously add interactions to your history with someone to get to a place of trust.  Each positive interaction is like a brick. Each negative interaction, like a sledgehammer. When it comes to…

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  • Time to reflect

    Get the equipment out. Check attendance. Run the practice. Clean up. Take yourself home. Repeat. There is never enough time to be still. With your busy schedule and all the demands on you, you probably haven’t even considered pausing to reflect, but your improvement depends on it. So how can you build the time in?…

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  • You are not solar powered

    Back in elementary school, I had one of those cheap and simple calculators. It had solar panels on it to for power. After you turned it on, there was not really an off button and just stayed on. But if you placed you hand over the panels, it finally turned off, until you moved your…

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  • All of it was futile.

    One of the things you have to know if you choose to go down the sport-based youth development path is that it can take a toll on you. You can pour your entire heart in to the work, stack all of the hours, and spend all of your gas money working with and supporting your…

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