Monday, September 19, 2022

Don't Have a Monopoly on Good Ideas

Shocking. I lack a monopoly on good ideas. Find great ideas or idea curators. Be like them.  


Some regular readers achieved basketball greatness, played or coached professionally. Some coach NBA or WNBA players. But the vast majority of us 'make the big time where we are.' 


Here's the "cut and paste" template. Apply it to our life, to our game, to our coaching, our teams. Find solutions that work. What works for Ryan, James Clear, or whomever don't count. You matter. 

1. Think small. Translate small daily gains to become our better version. What are we reading, studying, watching, training? 

2. My program is MasterClass. I watch something daily, now the late Madeleine Albright and Condi Rice on Diplomacy. Both are scholars, spoke Russian, and have a deep familiarity with the process. Coaching is diplomacy. 

3. Who are we and where are we going? Match behaviors with desired results. If I wanted to be a great poker player, I'd study Phil Ivey, Annie Duke, and Daniel Negreanu. What makes Coach _____ tick? 

4. Have your winning routine. Writing, MasterClass, and reading are important parts of mine. Make yours work for you. 

5. Mise en place. Keep needed resources nearby. Make good habits easier and worse ones harder.

6. Soar with eagles. Associate with people who elevate you. Avoid those who drag us down. If you're here once or daily, I'm honored that you invest your time here. I pledge to make it productive. 

7. Our brain is a muscle. Train it or let it atrophy. Work trains it but so does sleep...as memories become embedded during sleep. 

8. Let it go. Invest more time; spend less. Not saying that every video game is a time waster but many are. Time is our most valuable commodity. We never get it back. 

9. Have reminders. Cursing too much? Put an elastic on one wrist and move it to the other if we curse. If we want to reduce a negative habit, call attention to it. 

10. Be a tracker. "Winners are trackers" and building great habits demands the 'pick, stick, and check' approach. James Clear, author of Atomic Habits reminds us, "don't miss twice." We make our habits and our habits make us. 

11. Fall down twice, get up three times. Failure is part of the process. Do not quit. 

Lagniappe. Ideally, training conducted by S&C program. Injury concerns are always a potential. 
Lagniappe 2. "The quality of the shot relates to the quality of the pass." A great pass is a joy forever." 

















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