Luke Falk shared a Mike Leach story that stopped me cold:
Two kids. One rich. One poor.
Every training camp, Coach Leach told his team about these 2 kids.
The rich kid has two choices.
Get soft. Get entitled. Expect everything handed to him because he was handed more.
Or take the resources, the coaching, the opportunities, and compound them into something greater.
The poor kid has two choices too.
Say nobody gave him anything. Blame the world. Make his circumstances the reason he never became what he could have been.
Or outwork everyone in the room.
Luke said the locker room had both. Kids from wealth. Kids from nothing. Kids with every advantage. Kids who scraped for every inch.
Same choice for all of them.
Ownership or victimhood.
Fuel or excuse.
The rich kid can waste the head start or build on it.
The poor kid can drown in the deficit or weaponize it.
Greatness doesn't come from where you start.
It comes from which kid you choose to feed.
Credit to @coachlukefalk for continuing to share golden nuggets about Coach’s legacy
WOW! A drone show put on by a church in Manvel, Texas depicts our Savior Jesus on the cross.
One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Tomorrow, HE IS RISEN.
Overprotected kids become unprepared adults.
Dawn Staley nailed it.🔥
You can’t shelter your child from every hard moment and then expect them to handle adversity when it counts.
Hard is the lesson.
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Kara Lawson shares why winning habits must be built before the game and why losing habits are so hard to kill.
"We have to stop losing habits. I don't want to develop them. If we develop them, they're habits. They're hard to get out."
"Once they infiltrate this circle, they're hard to kill. We have to stop them before they become habits."
Bad habits don't announce themselves...they creep in slowly.
"I'm going to tell you every time I see it. But then it's incumbent upon you to stop it within yourself."
Coaches can call it out. But only you can fix it.
"You have to practice and play and behave like a winner if you want to win games. You have to do that."
And then she dropped this:
"It is not something you can just decide to be when you wake up. It ain't a Halloween costume. You can't just decide you're going to be a winner that day."
"That's not how it is. You have to be that every single day - in your approach and in your execution."
Winning is a mindset. It's how you choose to show up every day.
Your habits will define your outcomes. Choose them wisely.
(🎥@DukeWBB )
🎯 MIKE TOMLIN ON COACHING
"I don't run away from coaching. I run to coaching...
When you're a coach that's talking about 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣, you're seeking comfort because 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙜𝙜𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜."
~ via @jammer2233