Basic Principles is what this world works on, though it is something few of us understand and few of us work to, yet by understanding basic principles and working to them, things start to become easier and easier to work. And this is what the whole premise of this website is about. It is not…
Episode review time. In a entry back in early Oct, when I first started nasal breathing whilst out running, I did wonder what it would be like in mid Nov, well here we are, it’s mid Nov, what has been the effect for myself? Interesting to say the least, with: My recovery times are way…
Mass, everything has it in one degree or another, and some are larger than others, and one thing one discovers is that if one puts out a certain type of information, it definitely doesn’t appeal to a mass audience. And one thing one hears from content creators is how their viewing figures are being manipulated,…
Enjoying the creative process and learning to love, when one does that, one will never be bored, and no problem is ever insurmountable, it may take a while, but you’ll get there in the end. Then Adele Said “I Hate Wah-Wah Oh” – Tim Pierce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubGOWfLFniw The creative process is about play – playing with…
Spreadsheet are used for all sorts of things, and one can chart many a progress with them, for one can make up any chart with a spreadsheets basic outline, and can help ones coaching immensely. And when it comes to coaching, and if one is coaching at a lower grade, the spread of progress development…
Healers and Teachers are sometimes not the people that you think, for in this day and age, with all that has come to light, those of us who are more aware than the majority, are becoming the new healers and teachers of this world. For we are here to guide and assists others through what…
Don’t do it ……….., well when it comes to being successful in this world, there are many measuring sticks that one can use, and when it comes to being considered successful in the materialistic and modern world, a lot of the times it can come with an empty feeling. So when one says that I…
Trick or treat and with the amount of tricks that this reality plays, this world can indeed be stranger than fiction Stranger Than Fiction – Split Enz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZGD1FTRsz0 We all make mistakes as we learn, some bigger than others, though the only way to navigate this world is by eventually walking a straight old line…
Advantage, set, match – that’s a wrap, and when it comes to the music industry, nowhere is creative talent taken more advantage of is within the music industry. And two creative bands with very sad stories of being taking advantage of were The Small Faces and Badfinger. Without Walls – The Small Faces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDNFMyvYS_o Badfinger…
Trial and error, we all hate making mistakes and not getting things right, though when one really begins looking at it, all sports coaching really is, is a process of trial and error. And this is why having an overall picture in one’s mind become essential, for the point the one is aiming for, over…
Pushing the envelop can be unsettling for some, though by pushing the envelop, one begins expanding their knowledge out. And when one stops and begins explaining things to others, one can surprise themselves by what they have actually learnt over time. So in the spirit of pushing one’s boundaries further, the following are some you…
Balancing things in life is always an on going process, and so it is in balancing what one does with the coaching process. If coaching, and someone comes up to you and asks, have you got any drills and exercises that I can do? What does one say? I always go yep, plenty of drills,…
Visiting, we all do it, and it’s fun to go to different place to learn and experience things. And when our soul comes into this realm, it appears that when we physically die, we have two options: One is that we go through the reincarnation cycle The other is we get out of here and…
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…
Yellow canaries were always used in coal mines as a way of showing when there was a build up of gas, and when the canary fell over, it was time to get out of the mine until the gas had cleared and it was safe to go back in. And of course, Yellow was the…
Have you ever been in a group, with very few rules and yet they still worked, and in fact they worked better than the groups with too many rules to work by, that’s the power of self-organising systems. And when you look at these self-organising systems, no one really seems to be in charge, and…
The longer one coaches, what you discover is that great coaching is full of counter intuitive aspects to what one would think they would be. Most would think that to win games, one would have to be thinking about the end result, but no, one is better off thinking about the process they have to…
One thing we want to do as coaches is to begin opening the process for coaching improvement, and one of the ways we need to do this is by talking amongst ourselves more. This process doesn’t only involve talking with coaches from our own sports, but beginning conversations with coaches from other sports, because when…
From time to time I receive interesting articles in my email and the other day I got one from Lee Smith Coaching and it was an article by Paul Cammarata on player development over merely coaching to win. https://leesmith.co.nz/win-paul-cammarata/ Obviously the article deals with junior sport and the age old debate of winning over player…
