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 words 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…
I’ve talked quite a bit about the imagination lately and the implications for creating in our reality, so as sports coaches, how can we best make use of the imagination in a sporting context? We’ll it’s not actually as hard as it seems, for we just have to use our imaginations and follow our desires…
One of the biggest challenges for any sports coach, is in the creation and maintaining of a Learning Environment, and one of the reasons why, is that it is a new branch that coaching is only beginning to get into and explore. For at the moment, the creation of a learning environment is a very…
When it comes to creating a positive learning environment, the majority of work that gets done, people do not see, for the words and actions that we use can take years and years of study, hours and hours of planning and 5 minutes to deliver. Creating Positive Learning Environment – Teachers view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqNCiNMuDOs Creating Positive…
Just released, is a book by one of my favourite authours Daniel Coyle, entitled The Culture Code, and it is essentially a book about what makes great teams work and the glue that makes them gel. The book is so new it’s only just been released and I’ve just put an order in for it,…
When we begin doing things like coaching, we always get a lot of information thrown at us, or alternatively, little or no information at all, which turns out not to be very practical at all. And we always get taught to coach the basics of sport, though well intentioned, again not very practical, for the…
Anybody who coaches to any degree, will go on a coaches journey of self-discovery, for like the players, we’re all here to learn, and those that are here only to tell others what to do, are the ones who ultimately end up struggling the most, especially when the conditions change. For as I’ve gone on…
If anyone plays any form of sport at any level, apart from striving to get better, and trying to win, one of the underlying factors of what sport is really about, it is a journey of self-discovery, in other words, one begins to find out what you are really made of and who you really…
When one begins looking at coaching sports, there is a mass of information out there, where do you start, well you can only start with what you know and then it becomes a case of sorting the priorities for what one wants to achieve. And because in reality, as coaches, we spend so little time…
The biggest hurdle for anyone who coaches to overcome is moving from a coach centric model way of coaching, to the more inclusive inquiry based way of sports coaching. And the reason being is that the change is so big and requires a whole new skill set, in other words, it’ll be like learning a…
Sports coaching is currently in the process of moving from a coach centric model to an inquiry based learning system, and as usual when something is changing and people are not sure how to do it, there is a lot of flux going on as people come to understand why the change is happening and…
Being an avid reader, over time one collects a lot of books on multiple topics, and as time goes by one can begin crafting books by different authours into groupings which applies to the crafting of a Learning Environment. The following is a collection of 6 books, and though by different authours on different subjects…
One thing one learns over the many years of doing things, is that simplest is always the best, and the way to do that is by understanding the nuts and bolts of things, in other words, getting right back to principles. And it’s the same with sports coaching, there are too many complicated concepts out…
If one wants to progress in anything that they want to do, then experimentation is the key for anything ever happening. For if you don’t experiment, then one is doomed to perpetually stay at the status quo for change is the only constant in our reality. Of course, the key to any experimentation doesn’t occur…
During life, we are going to have falls from time to time, and what at the time may be perceived as one of the biggest falls or disasters, actually turns out to be of the greatest benefit to one’s actual progress and understanding and it’s only by having a Growth Mindset that one will pick…
If you get the right process in place, then one can begin to let the flow happen, for the process is like a guide and can be used to help of block the flow from happening and it is through what we learn that we can take away the blocks and allow the flow to…
If one ever starts anything, one thing is guaranteed, somewhere along the line you’re going to have failures and fail at things, it’s just the way it is, no one has ever come up with the perfect plan from the get go. Success comes from the accumulation of failures and learning from them and trying…
To begin understanding things, one needs data to begin to see the patterns, keys and principles which forms the basis of what one is looking at. In the coaching that I’ve done, it would be interesting to see how much data I’ve gone through to come to the understanding that I now have about coaching…
We all enjoy a good story and some of the best story tellers of recent years have been the creative talent from the Pixar Studios. From the Pixar Studios came stories such as Toy Story, A Bugs Life, Finding Nemo, the Incredibles, Cars and Monsters Inc. Pixar Website https://www.pixar.com/#home-cars3 Yet the stories behind Pixar is…
We all want to win, but some people have a knack of winning more than others, and the more they seem to relax about winning and not really worry about it, the more success they seem to have, surely a paradox if ever there was one. For within this paradox is a process that they…
