Another big part of the coaching puzzle is how do you present your information to the players so everyone is working in the same direction and all have the same understanding of the words that you use? And another piece of the puzzle to be worked out is out of all the information that you…
I must make an apology to the regular readers of this blog but due to circumstances beyond my control, I’ve been off line for the last month. And most of the downtime was due to the forced upgrade to windows 10, so that put me out of action for at least 3 weeks because my…
If you have been reading any of my blogs you’ll very quickly come to see that principles play a big part in what is done. The reason is why? The answer is actually very simple. But first what are principles? Principles are a constant, which means they are a fixed thing which means if you…
With my coaching, I use a lot of imagery when describing the skills and the way to play. It can sound a bit silly at times, though once the players understand what the images refer to it saves so much time in direction and correction. Some of the terms I use now are as follows: …
In cutting through all the information about sport, in particular coaching, there are three things, which when understood, makes coaching much more pertinent. They are: Have a belief, idea or concept about how the game can be played Work out the skill set to achieve that game Have an understanding about people and develop the…
The following is a bit of an insight in how I work out what to put in the conclusion line at the end of each entry. Sometimes a conclusion will come in the first hit, others, like the example below takes playing around with the words, either adding, subtracting or exchanging them. This example is about what…
I’ve been looking at some of the people I’ve studied, followed or admired over the years and there is one factor that always comes to the fore. Those people being: Bruce Lee Jim Henson Albert Einstein Arthur Lydiard Bob Paisley Steve Jobs You may not have agreed with the way they did things, but they…
Watched an interesting talk by Nicolas Perony on the simple rules that animals work from that produce what appears to be complex random behaviours, yet in reality are not once the rules they are working by are understood. http://www.ted.com/talks/nicolas_perony_puppies_now_that_i_ve_got_your_attention_complexity_theory.html Noel calls it simplifying complexity, though the context is the same as simplicity thinking, getting at…
Wanting to improve or do well? Because the thing that maybe blocking and holding one back is the mind. For if one is operating from the aspects of a Failing Mind they are the very things which are causing the blocks and holds. So if following aspects are being worked from: Fixed Mindset Passive Learner…
Everything being done is based around 4 principles, they being: Learning Environment Succeeding Mind Find out what is required to be done to be good, then do it Improve upon the information And The Succeeding Mind is the key principle of the lot Because Take away the Succeeding Mind, the rest falls like a pack…
What is about to be said may seem obvious, though it’s surprising the number of people who miss it. If one likes winning and doing well, and let’s face it, most do, there are two things that must be done to make it happen and without them, winning and doing well won’t happen at all….
Part of wanting to learn is in asking questions, for if it’s accepted what people are telling you, then you accept that they are correct. And as has been shown through the millennia, known information does change and a new ideas and concepts always precede it, for: Asking questions is the key to unlocking different worlds…
Description Simplicity thinking is about seeing the essence in things and those that have dyslexia in one degree or another have a huge head start in this area. Quotes If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough – Albert Einstein Simple is good – Jim Henson It’s the little details that…
The question is, how do you become good at what you want to do? Because the process isn’t that hard, it’s only a challenge to stick to and implement. The way to go about becoming good is this: Develop aspects of the Succeeding Mind Find out the key skills and key body techniques and practice,…
Everything being written about all revolves around the concept of choice theory. For choice theory is: Irrespective of the circumstance, you get to let them affect you how you want them to. And with my writings it works like this: Whether you follow and do what I am writing about is up to you, I…
I’ve re-evaluated the way I begin my talk when I first meet my players for what you find is that most players do not have a real understanding of what coaching is about. So in this light, here is what a coach does; I am a coach I am not a cheer leader I am…
I have just come across these two talks by Dr Alan Watkins on being brilliant every single day. He delivers his talks in simple easy to understand plain language and cuts through all the clutter and gets at the essence of his subject. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q06YIWCR2Js&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_fFattg8N0 The following is a link to his website which shows…
The more you delve in to the world of understanding people, especially the art of mentalisim, what becomes loud and clear is that everyone is an open book. Without realising it, everybody is telling you about themselves, without saying a word or alternatively revealing what they are thinking, even if they are hiding their true…
I was going through some of my old stuff, looking for a piece of paper when I came across something I wrote back in 1999 and it is still relevant today as when I wrote it. The piece I wrote which is in both italics and bold was this: Successful teams are the highly skilled…
As you go along and get better at what you do, the more you begin to realise that it’s the smallest things that make the biggest difference. And like most successful things, it runs counterintuitive to what people think and it’s generally people with simplicity thinking who get at the little things that make the…
