MrsCoachV

[MrsCoachV @MrsCoach_V]

Less than a week away!! Come check us out our new aquatic center Saturday!!!

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

The women of America don't have time for this...

[MrsCoachV @MrsCoach_V]

@owenlong22 @tspeterson40 @LSHS_Football Well deserved kiddo. Congrats!

[Todd Wolfson @CoachWolfson]

HS Parents:

Prior to complaining to your child’s coach about playing time ask yourself 4 questions:
1 Does my child attend ALL practices?
2 Does my child spend xtra hrs on their game?
3 Has my child performed when given the chance?
4 Does my child want it as bad as I do?

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer.

He wasn't playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice.

Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.”

Coach replied,

“Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don't worry about what you're doing.”

Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you're going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.”

And then he recommended that Brady start meeting with Greg Harden, a sports psychologist who worked in Michigan's athletic department.

Brady went to Harden's office and whined, “I'm never going to get my chance. They're only giving me 2 reps.”

Harden simply replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.”

“So that's what I did,” Brady said. “They'd put me in for those 2 reps, man, I'd sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. 'Let's go boys! Here we go! What play we got?'”

“And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.”

Soon, it went from getting 2 reps to getting 4 reps. Then from 4 to 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, with this new mindset that Greg instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it's the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.”

Takeaway 1:

Greg Harden telling Brady to just focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

“People come to me all the time and tell me they're stuck,” Cuban explained. “They're stuck in a job they don't like. They're stuck working for a boss they don't like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.”

“I just tell them, 'Be great.'”

“The reality of life is that you can't just always quit your job. You can't just always go to your boss and say, 'Give me the promotion, or I'm out of here.'” You can't just always go to your coach and say, 'Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.'

“So when you're stuck, you've gotta find it within yourself to say, 'Ok, this is where I am. And if I'm going to be here, I'm going to be great.'

Because if you're great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.”

Takeaway 2:

I've written before about “lead measures”—the actions and behaviors that predictably drive success.

The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) write, is that “a lead measure is influenceable; it can be directly influenced by you.”

To achieve your goals, they recommend (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), apply a disproportionate energy to the things that are in your control.

Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did, that’s what drove his success.

In his first media call after he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?”

Brady said he was aware of that. “And I know he’s a heck of a player,” Brady said. “But I’ve always really concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.”

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“I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady

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[MrsCoachV @MrsCoach_V]

@CoachVerstegen So proud!

[MrsCoachV @MrsCoach_V]

@LaSernaHS @SGVNSports @James_Escarcega Nice catch Jayden!! Way to go Lancers!

[MrsCoachV @MrsCoach_V]

@CoachVerstegen Hahaha. Our sweet boy.

[MrsCoachV @MrsCoach_V]

@mrs_g_rider I feel like 24 is standard or average now for TK and Kinder. Same for my kid. Sucks for the teacher. That’s a lot of littles!!

[MrsCoachV @MrsCoach_V]

@Ms_SBlakley Toothbrush & toothpaste

[MrsCoachV @MrsCoach_V]

We have the right to vent about students on our personal accounts. Students berate teachers all the time! As long as you leave names out, what’s the big deal?People are people & will annoy others at some point in time. Kids aren’t perfectly behaved robots, neither are teachers!

[𝔸ℤ𝕊𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖𝔾𝕦𝕪🌞🌵 @larrycot]

@k8roulette2 I had my FaceBook wide open as it was nice hooking up with friends from high school/college/Air Force.

And then my principal called me into his office one day and said I'd made an inappropriate post. It said, "A kid in one of my classes is so disrespectful."

So I locked it.

[MrsCoachV @MrsCoach_V]

@k8roulette2 And as an adult in my 40s, it is legal and OK to have wine with dinner or celebrate with cocktails with friends…and day drink on the beach! 😂

[MrsCoachV @MrsCoach_V]

@offgridteacher We get paid in our district for PD time. We are lucky, our district also gives us 10 paid PD/planning days & time to collaborate with our colleagues.

[MrsCoachV @MrsCoach_V]

Happy 10 Coach. Love you through the multiverse and back. Thanks for always coaching this crazy team with me! #TeamV #10yearanniversary

[MrsCoachV @MrsCoach_V]

@EckertKathleen Trust that we are professionals, not micromanage and fill our meetings with pointless information.

[MrsCoachV @MrsCoach_V]

@CoachVerstegen 💯upholding #couragecharactercommitment

[MrsCoachV @MrsCoach_V]

@CoachVerstegen Dear photographer, please print so we can have a large photo over our bed! 🥰😘

[MrsCoachV @MrsCoach_V]

@heymrsbond Yep. Everywhere. Mostly in bathrooms. They don’t even care they get caught. Our previous practice was to discipline transfer out but kids don’t care, they get caught & transferred 2nd & 3rd times! 🤦🏼‍♀️

[MrsCoachV @MrsCoach_V]

@krassenstein @prflyer Most of the “teen” dramas portray NUDE sex scenes on TV. The content your teenagers watch on TikTok are far worse then a few vague lines in a book. AND most young people now can’t even visualize or imagine what they are reading. They do not have a clue about what is happening!

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

The #1 priority of admin should be staff morale.
Everything else is secondary. Here's a few tips:
* give them a voice
* Trust them as professionals
* Treat everyone as individuals/ humans
* Respect their time
* Show them you care personal/professional
* celebrate/ appreciate