After dropping out of college, Steve Jobs took calligraphy classes. It felt useless, but he loved it. Thanks to that he designed the first computer with artistic fonts: the Mac.

If you only read, study, write about “your field” you are missing a big source of inspiration.

It’s about respect!

What strategies do you have in place to allow your athletes to cope with the pressure of competition?
BritishWeightLifting age grade championship.

If I don’t make it home, please remember it wasn’t because I didn’t try
The last thing I wanted to do was make you cry

I wanted more than anything to make it back to you,
But there was a job I just had to do

#RemembranceDay #LestWeForget

We must be careful not to believe things simply because we want them to be true. No one can fool you as easily as you can fool yourself.

This👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
A thousand times (& more)!

Power impairs our ability to have perspective

Researchers found that when in a position of power, we are:
-More self-focused
-Don't adjust to other perspectives
-Less accurate in reading others

Power erodes our ability to understand how others think & feel

This explains a lot.

Brilliant!
#justtalk #MentalHealthAwareness

Dylan Wiliam’s “Everything works somewhere, nothing works everywhere”. Let’s think of coaching as a goal directed DM process, where theories are practical tools which are selected on what works and why. This goes much further than the theoretical boundaries of a single idea.

Young athletes: read, discuss, reflect, apply…because being connected with your coaches is better than being apart

Remember: Quality coach-athlete relationships can be transformational

It Takes Two: The Importance of the Coach-Athlete Relationship kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

20 yrs from now, no one will remember how many points you scored, scored a couple of touchdowns, or even if you have a school record.

What they will remember is how you treated others, teachers, the staff and the kind of person you were to your teammates, coaches, and community.

Messi in the dressing room before the Argentina - Brazil final in 2021: 'We know about Argentina, we know about Brazil... I don't want to mention any of that today, we already know that. Today I want to thank all of you. I want to thank all of you for these 45 days.'