Motivation for players to improve is one of the biggest topics and task a coach will ever face, yet player motivation for improving is one of the least understood topics around, yet at it’s heart is some basic fundamentals to help. And over the years, one comes across some interesting material, which helps one to…
Leading – Aahhh, an interesting concept, but in reality, who leads who. It’s like teaching, for the more one coaches, what one begins to realise is that one doesn’t teach anything to anyone, we actually all teach ourselves. Other people can pass us on information, or provide us with their wisdom and experience, and what…
Path – Follow the yellow brick road, or do you. There are many paths we take in life, and at times we do not know whether we are on the right path or not, that comes with experience and inner knowing. Though one common road we all take, or should take, is the path of…
Mike Tyson boxing career was a whirlwind affair, coming out of nowhere, blazing a path of destruction, and disappearing into the wilderness at the end, in what many thought would be the end. But no, he’s surfaced again in a very different, transformational role, and I came across what he is now up to in a…
Juggling is something we do in our lives naturally, for we all have many things on the go, and if we didn’t know how to organise ourselves, all the balls that we have in the air, would fall to the ground. And it’s always interesting watching people juggling different objects and the timing that they…
As one coaches for longer and longer, what one begins to focus on more and more is the learning process and how people learn. And people can focus on the different genders as a difference in the learning process, which I’m sure there is a minor difference, though after 30 odd years of coaching both…
One thing about playing sport, is that one has to become used to pushing through the physical discomfort of pushing themselves past their perceived limits. It is not so noticeable in adult sport, as those who have been playing for long enough have learnt to push themselves through that discomfort that they feel, and by…
The more and more one begins to understand this life, one realises that is actually some sort of game that we are playing, with rules that restrict us to what we can do, and once you understand this the real fun can begin. The interesting thing about rules is that they tell us what we…
Ultimately there is more to us than meets the eye and once we realise this we can begin using the power that exist in all of us. The reason why I say there is more to us than meets the eye is because: We’re all leaders We’ve all got great abilities We can influence more…
I’ve just recently finished a book, Mind Of A Survivor by Megan Hine and is well worth a read, and this is one of those books I came across just by browsing through a book shop. Mind Of A Survivor https://www.bookdepository.com/Mind-of-Survivor-Megan-Hine/9781473649293?ref=grid-view&qid=1497996705864&sr=1-7 As a survival expert, she asked why do some make it through, when others…
In order for trust to develop between people, the words that they use and the actions that they take must match otherwise trust gets eroded very quickly. Personally, I lost my blind trust in people in positions of authority and power many, many years ago, and as a result, I do not take their words…
Everyone has a trigger point in what gets them motivated to do what they do and as a coach it’s learning to find those access points with the psyche, so you can trigger that motivation within them. And looking at psyche access points, there seems to be about four main ones, they being: Standards Morality…
When you begin learning what’s going on behind the scenes, in terms of the powers that think they be, the first thing you want to do is to start waking people up to the realities to what is going. So you go around telling everyone that you meet about the information you’ve discovered in your…
There is a simple way to begin to accelerate your rate of learning and that is simply by starting. I keep hearing people saying, I haven’t got time for learning, and I go, do you watch TV? If so, you’ve got time for learning. As an experiment, give up an hour of watching TV and…
When entering the playing zone, your performance certainly rises to a different level, but the question really is, by how much? Measuring a raise in the performance level through the playing zone is always going to be a subjective measurement because there are so many factors involved and working from a different realm. As a…
If you were to ask a group of people who wants to learn and get better, 95% of the people will put up their hands and say yes I do. When left to their own devices, what you’ll find is that out of that 95%, only 5 – 10% of the population will actually motivate…
If anyone is looking to improve their influence and motivation as a coach, and let’s face it, who doesn’t, there are two books that are worth getting and reading. The two books being: Focus – Heidi Halvorson and Tory Higgins http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Focus-Heidi-Grant-Halvorson/9780142180730 Instant Influence – Michael Pantalon http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Instant-Influence-Michael-Pantalon/9780316083348 And a couple of clips by the authors…
The following is an interesting talk by Heidi Grant Halvorson on the benefits of having a get better mindset as opposed to having a be good mindset. http://99u.com/videos/22655/heidi-grant-halvorson-the-incredible-benefits-of-a-get-better-mindset For having a be good mindset is all about proving yourself whereas the get better mindset is all about improvement and only comparing yourself to you. The…
Since I started looking into how to motivate others and what I’m finding is there is a lot of confusion out there and plenty of vague answers. The one thing coming through is the need to understand others before you can begin to motivate them, with the following link about understanding others needs http://www.prlog.org/10065474-how-to-motivate-others-top-tips-on-leadership.html People’s…
With the Coaching’s principles, something else is required that puts it into action and the angle that one comes from will determine the application of what happens. We’ll call it the driver, for without it nothing will happen. The driver is composed of what you’re working to and the knowledge and information of ones understanding….
