Ridiculous running times have been achieved this year with world records being broken in the men’s 5,000 meters, 10,000 meters and half marathon distances. And these records have been set in such a short space of time, with the current records now standing at: 5,000 Meters – 12 min 35.37 secs 10,000 Meters – 26…
David Blaine is a magician and an illusionist of extraordinary ability and has done some crazy things in his time. Recently I went back to the Joe Rogan Podcast and come across the interview of David on the podcast, and it proved to be fascinating. JRE # 1527 David Blaine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY3Zg37nIHo And one can tell…
The longer and longer I’m doing things and exploring different subjects and topics, the thing that most find the hardest to do is to simplify, and yet to be able to simplify is the thing which brings the greatest results and rewards. Recently, I’ve just finished reading a book called Simplify by Richard Koch &…
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 you truly sit down and look at the sporting skills of anything that’s done, you can begin to group the types of sporting skills into four areas, with 3 of these groupings being very pertinent in becoming a master coach. And the four types of sporting skills are simply these: Generic Skills Platform Skills…
Recently I was watching a talk and someone mentioned the concept of the beginner’s mind, so I looked around and basically found out that at its heart was about retaining curious minds. It’s an eastern philosophy and as usual when people explain this stuff through the eastern philosophy they make it this mysterious concept. I…
I’ve been looking at developing good character as a hidden resource because you don’t get good character by going directly there. By doing other things, good character comes as a result and this is where Coach the Mind comes in to play, for if you: Instil a Growth Mindset Create Proactive Learners Ignite Internal Motivation…
The hidden resources are the fields of excellence, for: Would you like to develop the following aspects into your team? Physical Excellence Trust Class Consistency Simplicity Positive Team Synergy If so, you need to enter through the access points and be able to build the aspects of: Attitude of Excellence Honesty Discipline Standards Clarity Positive…
I’ve written that trust is one of the fields of excellence which you can tap into which assists in raising the performance of your side. Trust isn’t something which just occurs. It has to be earned. So how does trust develop? In reality it is only through one source and that is honesty. Honesty develops…
I’ve started working on a concept called fields of excellence. It all revolves around how you aspire and work to higher levels and explains why teams become good or drop out of the reckoning. What I’ve come to the conclusion is that everybody starts off at a level of mediocrity. From the level of mediocrity,…
As I’ve been writing my blogs a theme has been coming through and it’s about this concept of something being a gateway to something else, for if you want to attain certain states, there are certain gateways you must go through. It came to the fore as I was writing yesterday’s blog on team synergy…
Have you noticed that some people who may not be technical and tactically astute about their sport yet can still produce winning performances from their teams? Does it have you perplexed, because if sport is about the technical and tactical aspects of your sport as we are lead to believe and taught about when we…
If you ever watch or are involved in sport, the word class keeps resurfacing from time to time. Most people can identify a team or person with class, but when it comes to describing it or what’s behind the development of it, most people would struggle. To me class is creating time on the field…
In this day and age, people seem to struggle with sticking to or understand what standards are. At its essence it’s quite simple, set some rules and stick to them. For example: “I’m going to arrive at work 10 minutes before I start” “I’m going to focus and work hard at practices” “Knives and forks…
