Division 1 basketball is HARD. Most young players don’t understand how hard. Every time you walk in the gym, you have to be completely on. You can’t be casual. The coaching is demanding and every detail matters. It’s kill or be killed. The earlier you understand this, the better.
Underrated life advice: Just be easy to work with. Show up on time. Do what you said you'd do. Bring solutions, not problems. Never create drama. Be responsive. Be emotionally consistent. Be kind. People will always want to support someone who just makes their life easier.
Major cheat code for life: The ability to recognize things that don’t matter. The world will pressure you to care about every single thing. To chase every problem. To take every slight personally. To have opinions on everything. Reject that trend. Focus on a few, ignore the rest.
Students need all kinds of teachers.
- The extroverts who bring energy.
- The introverts who lead with quiet thoughtfulness.
- The serious teachers who bring structure and focus.
- The silly teachers that put students in a state of relaxed alertness.
- The spontaneous teachers who model a creative spirit.
- The organized teachers who bring clarity and consistency.
Part of education is learning how to work with, learn from, and relate to people who are different from ourselves.
The best accomplishments don't happen because the struggle was absent. They happen because you did it together. We spend so much time as leaders trying to eliminate the struggle that we forget the struggle is what gives the win meaning. Celebrate together. #LeadFromWhoYouAre
Novak Djokovic: “My kids don't have cell phones and won’t until they are mature enough. They complain that everyone at school has one except them. When everyone follows the herd, conformity is expected. But it doesn’t have to be that way. That's where we differ.”
Middle America families stuck in the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time that is travel baseball.
Baseball needs Legion Ball played at high school fields in t-shirts and gray pants more than ever right now.
Major life hack: Quiet progress. Learn to work without validation. No announcement. No hype. No applause. Build when nobody’s watching. Write when nobody’s reading. Train when nobody’s cheering. It doesn’t take talent. Just courage. Quiet progress creates loud results.
I was at Pleasant View Elementary in Franklin on Friday afternoon before the severe weather. I had all of these students in mind when that tornado moved into Franklin that evening.