Brett Cordy

Teacher and Coach. Expressed views are my own

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

The best sports parents might be the quietest ones in the stands.

No drama.
No gossip.
No blaming refs.
No ripping coaches.
No constant complaining.

Just grateful for the chance to watch their kid compete.

This fall, bring less noise and more perspective.

[Brian Kight @BrianKight]

Help early teens master self-control and responsibility!

E+R=O was the best gift my dad gave me because he taught me early.

My mindset changed.
My learning accelerated.
My personal skills exploded.

Not instantly. Not magically.
But massively and meaningfully.

Here are 5 E+R=O lessons for teenagers:

1. The quality of your life comes from the quality of your responses,not the quality of your events.

Good events don't give you a good life. Bad events don't give you a bad life. How you respond to anything determines the quality of your life.

2. Not every disciplined response will succeed. Not every undisciplined response will fail.

Exceptions happen. Don't let them distract you or plant seeds of doubt that discipline doesn't work or that you can get away with undisciplined responses. Everyone who falls too far into this pattern fails. Everyone.

3. Your response creates events for other people.

Pay attention to what events you create for others through your attitude, action, and words. Do your best to create events that help people, even when that means challenging going them.

4. Everything meaningful thing in life requires courage.

Courage is a muscle. You don't have the option to eliminate fear or escape feelings of doubt. You have the chance now to strengthen the courage in your response. When you face events that scare you or doubt your ability to earn an outcome, you'll need your courage to be stronger than your fear and doubt.

5. People don’t always tell you the truth, but E+R=O always will.

No matter what. It will explain why you succeed, why you fail, or why you have yet to reach that point. When you want clarity and understanding about why things are happening the way they are, E+R=O will reliably give you caring and unfiltered honesty.

All you have to do is use it.

[The Grotto 🍀 @TGSTheGrotto]

Trumpets Under The Dome!!! One of the best pre game traditions ever! ☘️ 🎺

[The Grotto 🍀 @TGSTheGrotto]

Notre Dame Hype “For Lou” ☘️ ❤️ ☘️

GO IRISH!

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Marcus Freeman shares why "leading by example" isn't enough.

"We don't love leaders by example. Because leaders by example are guys that do what they're told to do, they do everything they're asked, right?"

"But they don't say things when their teammates aren't reaching the standard. We can't have that."

Real leadership isn't just performing at the standard. It's protecting the standard.

"We need more leaders. Guys that are willing to hold their teammates accountable because it's gonna make your teammate better."

Accountability isn't about being hard on people. It's about caring enough to not let them settle.

"I wanna make everybody in our organization the best they possibly can be. So if I let you cut corners or I don't say something to you when you're falling under the standard, then I'm not helping push you to the best you can be."

Leading by example is the baseline. Leading with accountability is the standard.
(🎥notredamebusiness)

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

“Most people don’t want be pushed that hard.
They want to be pushed to their level of comfort.
You need coaches that push you outside your comfort zone because that’s how you grow and that’s how you develop self confidence and self esteem.
They push you to deal with failure."

[Crawly's Cubs Kingdom @crawlyscubs]

It was #OTD in 1987 that Eric Show hit Andre Dawson in the face in the third inning after homering against Show in the first inning. @Sut_40 and the #Cubs bench came running after Show. Once Andre Dawson regained consciousness, he went after Show, who had to leave the game for his own safety. Dawson, suffered cuts on his left-upper lip and a bruise on his left-lower cheekbone and he received 24 stitches inside and outside the mouth. Greg Maddux retaliated by beaning Benito Santiago and got ejected.

[Brendan Miller @brendan_cubs]

The Cubs lead MLB with 10 walk-off wins. Here's a montage of them all.

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

"Nothing is really fun unless it's hard.
Embrace the fact that it's hard.
Never hope that it's easy."
Stop looking for shortcuts.
Lean into the hard part and build the habits that don’t bend or break when it gets tough.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Students need to understand that the most powerful learning occurs when they persevere through challenges.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

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.

Watch. Share. Bookmark.

[Brett Cordy @bcordy10]

Modern day Ryne Sandberg!

[Brett Cordy @bcordy10]

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[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

If you think teachers have it easy, you’re in luck. America is currently short more than 400,000 teachers. Give it a try! 😏

Or give subbing a try…to get a taste.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

We’ve created a school system where the students who follow the rules get the least attention… because all the energy goes into managing the ones who don’t.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

https://t.co/bH2BhoASrr

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

An important message for parents.

Negativity at home always finds its way to the locker room.

Parents have the power to help build a positive culture…or poison it.

[Bruce Straughan @bruce_straughan]

Another Saturday without Notre Dame Football? No problem I got you covered with another legendary Tony Roberts call. This time @40RBND with one of the greatest runs you’ll ever see. Reggie gets knocked out around the 5yd line and manages to hang on to the ball for the touchdown! What makes it even more incredible is Reggie still to this day doesn’t remember scoring the touchdown. He was literally knocked out on his feet and still had the wherewithal to hold onto the ball even moving it to the outside arm away from the defender. In a word AMAZING! ☘️

[Brian Kight @BrianKight]

I share E+R=O lessons in my Daily Discipline newsletter. E+R=O means Event + Response = Outcome.

If you use E+R=O or want to learn more, then it's worth subscribing. But in case you don't, here's one of this week's lessons:

It's easy to acknowledge and accept that we don't control events. It's harder to admit the same is true for outcomes.

We want to believe that, with the right response, we can control the outcome. We can engineer it, command it, or force it.

But if that were true, what would your life look like right now? If you had control of outcomes, wouldn't things be different?

That's the first lesson of E+R=O. That's always the first lesson, no matter the audience. Before the skills, strategies, and techniques. Before the examples and applications.

You must accept the fixed truth of the physics of E+R=O.

You don't control events. You don't control outcomes.

You control your response.

You can earn outcomes you desire. But you can't control them.

[Bruce Straughan @bruce_straughan]

Heroes get remembered but Legends never die! May you rest in eternal peace with God forever Coach Lou! RIP Lou Holtz ☘️🙏�