Our reality that we live in runs on a self-perpetuating feedback loop and the inputs that run this feedback loop are our thoughts, words, emotions and actions. And to see what a feedback loop looks like, one only has to start learning about things like the Mandelbrot Set, to see that the formulae it works…
Coaching in the 21st Century is all about being creative and the only way one can become creative is to begin imagining a better possibility, in other words, coaching all begins in the mind. And the old days of coaching of just running a few drills and assuming that everybody wants to learn and improve…
I don’t know about anyone else, what I’ve found is that the Most Important part of a coaching session is the 1st 2 minutes, that time when you reconnect with the players after a break between games and practices when everyone has gone away and done their own thing. Dan Coyle – How To Engage…
We’ve all heard the phrase, birds of a feather flock together, well it’s the same with books, when one starts grouping books of a similar topic together and I thought I’d do a post today of some passages from the book the Winning Mindset by Damian Hughes, showing the importance of understanding people, simplifying things…
The more and more books I’m reading about coaching, what is becoming clearer is what a good coach works to and from, and there are 3 common themes that continually come to the fore of what a good coach does. And those 3 things are simply these: They understand people and guide them They simplify…
The hardest thing about teaching others about coaching is that there is so much to learn, you know, where do you start? And as I’ve developed along in my own coaching and looked back at what I’ve done I’ve simplified it down to 3 key elements, they being: Understand working with people Few core skills…
There are many, many powerful words that we use and when one begins looking at our language and our reality, and one of the most powerful word in our language is the word Imagine, because it is a key to opening us up to other possibilities. For as creators, the ability to Imagine other possibilities…
If what ever I’m doing, I’m always making adjustments, but not adjustments for the sake of making them, but adjustments for making things better and easier. And so it is with the chocolate fish challenge that I do with the younger team that I coach, http://beawinningcoach.com/chocolate-fish-challenge/ For not only is it a tool that the…
I think by now, most people realise that things aren’t quite right in this world, and that it is a very few people who do the manipulation to create the conditions that we currently experience. But the question is, how do they actually do it, and it’s easier than it seems. Firstly, they’ve hijacked our…
Recently I was watching a video from Quantum Of Consciousness Channel for he has some really interesting ideas about what is going on in this world and reality and in one of his clips he was talking about a 2 day seminar that was given by Ken Cousens of GEMSTONE University. GEMSTONE University Amazing Reality…
One thing we need to be learning more about is our imaginations, for it is appearing to be the most valuable tool that we have at our disposal and is the beginning of all things, for one only has to look around where they are and see the benefit of others imaginations that have been…
I used to base my coaching from the unconscious belief that everyone wanted to learn and improve, but not anymore, as I gave away that fallacy many years ago and shifted to a new fundamental starting point for coaching which is that no one wants to learn and improve and I have to create the…
Todays world view of how our universe and reality works is changing, and changing rapidly at that, though looking at the main stream outlets and the traditional gate keepers, you wouldn’t think so. To give an insight into this new world view, the following 6 topics give a clue to a more expanded view of…
When one begins reading this blog, and as one continues you will start coming across a lot of varied topics and subjects and one may begin to wonder, what is this website and blog really about? On the surface it appears to be a coaching website, though when one begins exploring the blog and the…
When it comes to sports coaching, there are many obstacles and things that one must struggle through, though the biggest struggle one has to overcome in coaching is when you realize that you have to work it all out by yourself for what you want to do. You can go to all the course, collect…
One thing that I’ve noticed, and it doesn’t matter whether it is within a family, at the work place or on the world stage, the conversations that happen at the bottom is created by the decisions emanating down from the top. And this is no more borne out by what is currently happening on You…
If anyone wants to see the power of using simple techniques well, one only has to begin looking at the works and workings of magicians and card manipulators. And even though one may know what they are doing, when the simple techniques are done well, it looks like nothing has been done at all, yet…
With the more and more information that is coming to light, a very distinct picture of the future direction of sports coaching is emerging. And this future direction consists of a core of 3 main parts, where the basic concept of sports coaching is simply to: Create and Maintain a Learning Environment Activate the players…
I’ve mentioned previously that this blog goes off into some Left-Field topics and discussions, and just to show one how varied the reading that I indulge in is, here are 3 of the current books I’m reading. The first of the current books is: Dissolving Illusion – Suzanne Humphries MD https://www.bookdepository.com/Dissolving-Illusions/9781480216891 This book is about…
If one reads this blog for long enough, you’ll notice I appear to head off all over the place into very different and diverse subject material and you may eventually ask why I head off into what may seem like left-field tangents, with what may seem like no relevance whatever to sport and coaching at…
