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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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Am I the problem?
As a coach and leader of programming, the thing that I used to complain about the most to my colleagues was that the kids were not engaged. They were not playing the games. They were sitting on the bench. They were distracted. They were on their phones. It was all about them and their behaviors,…
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The phone’s in the way
I have a confession. I love sport. I see its power in so many ways. But I haven’t engaged in it personally in a while. And I find the busyness of my current schedule has made it difficult for me to even watch live sports. Well, that’s not entirely true. I have to admit, that…
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People, right?
Let’s say I were to come into a large sum of money. If I were using it to start a youth sports program from scratch what would I spend the money on? Of course, I would spend money for the space, equipment, jerseys, and just overall keeping the light on. But to be perfectly honest,…
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The stories not yet written
We, the collective youth sports sector, like to say that sport changes lives. We use it as a blanket statement without getting into the nuance, and without calling to attention that change isn’t always good. We can’t keep generalizing. We don’t know enough. There are stories that have gone untold for far too long. There…
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