One of my original posts on this site was “The 5 Books for Every Coach”. That then became “5 More Books for Every Coach” and the last in the trilogy, “5 Books for Every Athlete”. A recent trip to North Carolina to instruct a USA Volleyball BCAP course led me to this post. It was…
One of the most read pages on this site was my post in April, 2014 called “5 Books for Every Athlete” (found here). I was then asked if there were certain books that I found were useful more as a coach. Right of the top of my head, three came to mind. One of the…
I have to be 100% honest. This is the second version of this post. I wrote a whole (7 paragraph) post, then decided to delete it. I realized that I wrote the whole post addressing the symptoms and not the problem. I will start with the same story. A coaching friend of mine and I…
I heard an interesting “phrase” today while I was out and about. A person was helping a friend through some unknown situation. The person said, “You have to be a thermostat and not a thermometer”. I never thought of things that way, but while I was meditating I put that in the front of…