Chris Harris

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Coaching the next generation and healing people one treatment session at a time.
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[Dave Aranda @CoachDaveAranda]

Tough is mental before it’s physical. The standard is the standard. #SicEm

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Here's as good of a breakdown you'll find from Eli Drinkwitz (@CoachDrinkwitz) on the duality strength building, resisting instant gratification, and having the propensity to not skip steps:

🛡️ Most things in life carry an inverse relationship between short-term and long-term outcomes. What feels good now often creates pain later. What feels painful now often creates rewards later. The best performers in any field understand this tradeoff. They consistently choose the investment over the indulgence. Eventually, delayed gratification stops being a behavior and becomes an identity. Meaning you no longer choose hard because of the reward waiting on the other side. You choose it because because the reward was becoming the type of person who can handle it.

🐣 It's natural to choose the path of least resistance, because we're protectors at our core. Protect our children, protect our players, protect ourselves. But It's counter to our / their long term growth. Struggle produces strength. A large part of the leader's job, and our responsibility for our own growth, is to seek discomfort and learn the lessons that come from pain or patience.

🪜 The only way to climb the ladder is one step at a time. In sports, in your marriage, in your job, in anything you want to ascend or get better at. There are no elevators to excellence. You have to graduate from every moment by choosing the path less traveled. Those choices yield the reward of evidence that you're the type of person who digs deeper, goes further, and can suffer more without quitting. You become so committed to mastering each step that one day you look up and realize you've reached heights that once seemed impossible.

Every setback becomes another layer of armor. Every storm becomes an opportunity to prove what @MizzouFootball has built.

While others are searching for comfort, you've developed the capacity to endure discomfort. You can dig roots, spread wings, and flourish in a less crowded arena.

And in a world increasingly addicted to instant gratification, the ability to consistently choose the long game becomes an expedited growth track that is nearly impossible to keep pace with. 🚆

[James Light @JamesALight]

Seattle Seahawks HC Mike Macdonald - What Players Want

- "Players want to be coached. They want a connection. They want a coach that trusts/believes in them & to teach them the stuff that works. They want to be challenged but you have to build a relationship first to challenge guys the right way."

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Coach Matt Campbell (@CoachMC_PSU) teaches a clinic here on culture, leadership, and the importance of your organization knowing how and why you do things:

🧫 "Culture is how you live, not what you say." Culture is behavior, not branding. It's not what hangs on the walls, it's what walks the halls! Your team will rarely become what you preach, but it will almost always become what you consistently tolerate, reinforce, and model.

🚂 Communication is the transportation system of leadership. A good leadership train turns complex into simple, digestible, and actionable instructions. Talent, effort, and good intentions can't move very far if the tracks aren't in place or if information isn't flowing like a train. The speed and quality of your communication often determine the speed and quality of your results.

🍓 People can go further when they understand the why behind the what and the how behind the habit. You feel more connected to the outcomes if you know the value of the fruit you're farming. That understanding creates ownership.

The culture at @PennStateFball is being built through relationships, reinforced through standards, and sustained where people understand why their actions matter. 🏗️

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Great perspective from @NDFootball Coach Marcus Freeman (@Marcus_Freeman1) on why he feels he must remind his players to choose hard:

"Struggle with what you have."

Everyone starts from a different place. Some people are born on third base. Others have never even seen a triple. But growth isn't determined by where you begin, it's determined by the challenges you're willing to embrace.

When you step onto the field, the court, or into any defining moment, nobody cares where you started. What matters is how you've prepared, how you've responded to adversity, and how you've conditioned yourself for the grinding opportunity in front of you. It's a daily choice.

The hard way is the right way.

Choose hard!

Especially when life makes easy available.

[Chris Harris @Stretchguy_CJ]

Whoa

[James Light @JamesALight]

FIU HC Willie Simmons - Program Turnaround

- Set Standards (Non-Negotiables)
- Find ways to build confidence
- Gotta get the "ball" right

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Mike Brown describes one of my favorite concepts here with his take on the @nyknicks being "Antifragile".

@nntaleb says "Wind extinguishes a candle 🕯️ but energizes fire.” 🔥

Same composition, but different response to the conditions.

Being Antifragile describes a team that doesn’t merely survive stress, chaos, volatility, or pressure... it actually gets stronger because of it.

Inversely, when organizations eliminate all discomfort, all mistakes, all conflict, and all pressure, they unintentionally create weakness. #EasternConferenceFinals #ECF

[Zach Brandon @MVP_Mindset]

We are all just renting our jobs, roles, and titles.

"I have been here for 15 years as the head coach...this position has been on loan and it wasn't mine to keep...It's time for me to give it back, but to give it back to gain what I can't lose." -- Tony Bennett

Titles eventually get handed back. Just make sure you don't completely sacrifice what matters most trying to hold onto something that was never yours to permanently keep.

Jobs are finite. Values are infinite.

📹: University of Virginia

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Detroit @Lions Head Coach Dan Campbell's keys to success AND keeping his team motivated through success are crazy simple:

🦁 Be Consistent
🦁 Stay True To Your Beliefs
🦁 Show Them What You Tell Them

The best leaders are the most secure leaders.

They don't feel the need to fill every silence.

They understand that credibility isn’t built by dominating the room, but by economizing their words and speaking only when it adds clarity, conviction, or direction.

Complexity impresses. But simplicity scales.

[Nacho @nachomiranda14]

Mark Daigneault just explained why OKC is built different.

Problem solvers. Humble. Accountable. No finger pointing. Obsessed with improving. Rooted in service.

That’s championship mentality.

Young athletes: talent means nothing without character

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

One of leadership’s biggest blind spots: who’s coaching the head coach? 🧑‍🦯

Leadership doesn’t exempt you from a growth plan. 🍄 In fact, it probably places more emphasis on it.

@spurs Head Coach Mitch Johnson on the idea that even the person in charge, still has to be led.

"You have to feed your mind the right things, surround yourself with truth-tellers, and stay humble enough to accept coaching yourself." 💯

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Head Coach Mike Brown on the dilemma all leaders face:

Every SUGGESTION may help an individual 🙋‍♂️, but every DECISION must protect the group. 🚌

Leadership is the responsibility of filtering good intentions through the lens of identity, vision, and your non-negotiable standards.

Because not every opportunity is aligned opportunity.

The position of leader comes with the responsibility of saying yes or no to people who at face value are just trying to help...

But also weighing the opportunity costs against your identity, vision, and standards for the team that you believe CAN'T CHANGE, if you want to be successful. @nyknicks 💯

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Mike Tyson on discipline: "The best way to receive discipline is to do what you hate to do, but do it like you love it. You do that, that's discipline."

[Atlanta Falcons @AtlantaFalcons]

Character
Accountability
Stalwart
Toughness

Our GM Ian Cunningham welcomes the rookies 🤝

[Fired Coaches of Georgia @FiredCoaches]

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[Chris Harris @Stretchguy_CJ]

@CoachLync Streak

[Chris Harris @Stretchguy_CJ]

@TheGridironHQ Aye…I mean…
I’m with you when you’re right😂

[Chris Harris @Stretchguy_CJ]

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[GridironHQ @TheGridironHQ]

🏈 Most staffs don’t have a football problem on Friday nights…

They have an organization problem.

Too many coaches watching the ball.
Too many opinions.
Not enough defined roles.

Here’s a simple framework for organizing your sideline + press box on game day.

A thread 🧵👇