The “insider” secrets of being World-Class
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Here’s what we’re serving up:
🏀 #1 - Favorite Video We Watched 📺
🏀 #2 - Favorite Action to add 🎥
🏀 #3 - Favorite Thing We Heard 💭
LET’S DIVE IN ⬇️
See things before they happen 📺
Scanning - This habit applies to most sports!
🔑 Checking your shoulder to see the court or field helps you build awareness and absorb information about how the shapes the defense is forming.
🔑 “Skill is the ability to anticipate and then make decisions.” The environment gives you invitations for actions.
🔑 The more of the environment you see, the quicker you can accept the invitation.
Must Add Action 🎥
🔥 Touch Step Up 🔥
💥 The best teams play in the best affordances. This action creates quality spacing for a skip as well as a pocket pass to the roller.
The One-Word Answer to Why Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Have Been So Successful 💭
💥 Focus 💥
Focusing on what is essential is a powerful ability, perhaps the most powerful in a world bombarded with distracting ideas, information, and opinions.
Bill Gates & Warren Buffett would focus on something and stick with it. They had the determination to master whatever it was they were doing.
To be world-class in anything begins with Focus.
Reply with how you get yourself and how you get your players to have world-class Focus
💥 Bonus💥 - Coaching thought:
“People who don’t value their time seem to get very offended by people who do.”
As the great Nick Saban once said:
“Mediocre people don’t like high achievers and high achievers don’t like mediocre people. If people don’t buy into the same standards you’re never going to be successful.”
What does a high achiever look like in your program?
How do you appreciate them when they embody excellence in your practice?