Finish this sentence: 'I am unstoppable at ___' 🏆👑

Published: Fri, 09/08/17

 
I love that you are taking the time to invest in yourself as a coach! 
Have I thanked you lately for choosing to allow me to help contribute to that process? Thank you!

I also greatly appreciate your input on my recent survey asking about sponsoring the podcast.

Some of the input from that survey stated that bringing on sponsors to the podcast would be one of the solutions.

I have the opportunity to do just that, I am working with a team communication app developer, and they have asked me to compile a survey of users of their app - it only takes a few minutes, plus they are offering up 4 $250 gift cards to Dick's Sporting Goods to be chosen from the respondents.

Can you help me with this sponsor opportunity, plus get the chance to win one of the gift cards?

Thank you my friend, #Making2017Epic!
 
'Crave the result so intensely that the work becomes irrelevant' - Tim Grover in Relentless
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My latest read has been Tim Grover's book Relentless, From Good to Great to Unstoppable.

My biggest takeaways have been very similar as Jim Collins' Good to Great.

From a coaching standpoint, many of you have shared with me the question:
'What do I do with athletes who don't seem to care near as much as I do?'
That question kept going through my mind as I read this book.

What if we asked our athletes which one applies:
  • I want to be a good lacrosse player
  • I want to be a great lacrosse player
  • I want to be an unstoppable lacrosse player
If they answer either of the first two, that's OK, as long as you ask a follow-up question:
  • So what are 1 or 2 things in your life where you want to be unstoppable?
Maybe their family is struggling to pay bills, so they have to work a part-time job. They are choosing to be an unstoppable family supporter.
Maybe they want to get into a tough school, so academics are their first priority. They are choosing to be an unstoppable student.

The key as a coach is push the young people we coach to be better than they think they can. Being 'good enough' at everything is not OK. Push your athletes to find 1 or 2 things where they are choosing to be unstoppable.

So to answer the question from the title of this email, in my coaching profession, I am unstoppable at:
Teaching kids, through the avenue of sports, to be unstoppable

What are you unstoppable at?
 
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NEW WYC PODCASTS
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WYC 128 – The Captain Class – Sam Walker talks the 16 sports dynasties and what they all had in common
In The Captain Class, Walker profiles the greatest teams in history and identifies the counterintuitive leadership qualities of the unconventional men and women who drove them to succeed.

He began by setting out to answer one of the most hotly debated questions in sports: What are the greatest teams of all time? He devised a formula, then applied it to thousands of teams from leagues all over the world, from the NBA to the English Premier League to Olympic field hockey. When he was done, he had a list of the sixteen most dominant teams in history.

With the list in hand, Walker became obsessed with another, more complicated question: What did these freak teams have in common? As Walker dug into their stories, a distinct pattern emerged: Each team had the same type of captain—a singular leader with an unconventional skill set who drove it to achieve sustained, historic greatness.
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Make winning the right way your habit starting today,
​Craig
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Craig Haworth is the founder of Winning Youth Coaching, a site dedicated to helping coaches and parents make youth sports an awesome experience for the youth and the parents.  He interviews coaches from around the world and posts them on his podcast, which currently has over 125 interviews and has been downloaded over 200,000 times. He writes a weekly note to coaches and parents. He is married to his high-school sweetheart and they share the blessing of 3 children and live in Franklin, TN. You can sign-up for his weekly note here, find him on twitter at @craighaworth1, or visit his website winningyouthcoaching.com.
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men"
- Frederick Douglass