If your high school student-athlete isn’t willing to take nutrition serious, get enough sleep for great rest/recovery, and train relentlessly. They won’t and can’t be elite. Don’t claim you want to be great and want a college scholarship yet aren’t all in with what it takes.

The five mental challenges of sports: 1. Pushing through discomfort. 2. Blocking out distractions. 3. Staying poised under pressure. 4. Thinking critically to solve problems. 5. Managing your ego and working with others. Work hard to improve in all of these areas!

Adversity reveals culture, reveals character, reveals leadership. Those things will either cause you to overcome the adversity or be the reason adversity takes you out. Leaders lead. Expect and prepare for adversity. Be who you say you are. Live your standard.

Stress is not a situation. Situations are neutral. Stress is how you respond to a situation. Stress is your reaction. Stress is about your perspective. The good news? Perspective is a choice. A better perspective leads to a better response which leads to a better outcome. ⛈️🦬

This is how everyone should treat their kids 🥺❤️

This is pure gold on Mental Toughness. - Mental Strength is not a gift, it's something comes with work. - The greats might appear locked in, but there is still a storm inside. - Moving through negative emotions quickly is what separates good from great.

When you have a passion for something: • Work ethic comes easy. • You're resilient in the face of adversities. • You don't mind the suck that comes with it.

Now if you don't have that passion: You're fighting against steep, steep hill. • Everyday becomes a grind. • Everything feels harder than it should. • You question why you're even playing.

Some thoughts on masculinity:

Step forward into growth or back into safety.

Avoiding failures, avoids success.

Is Tithing just for the Old Testament?😱🤯

This.

Teachers' well-being matters!

It's all in how you manipulate the variables (speed, rest, rep length, sets, terrain, etc.) given the individual athlete you have standing in front of you and the desired adaptation. There are no magic workouts.

“The size of the opportunity that you chase is directly related to the size of adversity that you will experience. If you want to pursue something of significant opportunity, what are you guaranteed to experience? Adversity. You cannot pursue and achieve something of

“The short-term crowd is always too distracted to notice the long-term crowd slowly compounding. Never try to win the moment at the expense of the decade.” ~Farnam Street