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Bill Walsh on the importance of Positive Coaching:
“If you’re growing a garden, you need to pull out the weeds, but flowers will die if all you do is pick weeds. They need sunshine and water. People are the same.”
~ via @CoachDanCasey
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“We won the game, but we didn’t really defeat the team”
If you allow yourself to be happy over results, you’ll die by the same sword.
Chase the standard, not the outcome.
The score may indicate what you did, but the process reveals who you are becoming.
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Kirby Smart believes great leaders of any kind must accept 3 costs:
1. Making hard decisions that negatively impact people you care about
2. Being disliked despite attempts to do the best for the most
3. You'll be misunderstood
~ via @TheDaily_Coach
thedaily.coach/p/3-costs-lea…
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Great teams aren’t built by where people come from.
They’re built by what people are willing to come together for.
Talent matters.
Together matters more.
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"He truly sets the culture every single day."
🎙️ Myles Garrett on Coach McVay's leadership
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Vision is where you’re going.
Values are how you get there.
Standards are what keep you there.
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Bill Belichick breaks down leadership into two things - and it's simpler than you think.
"Leadership to me is 2 things: doing your job and putting the team first."
Let me explain.
"If you can't do your job, then you don't have any leadership."
"And if you do your job for selfish reasons and don't care about the team, then the team doesn't really embrace you."
It means focusing on your action and what you consistently do. People want leaders that are selfless, consistent, and people of character.
"If you do your job and you're a good teammate, then you have good leadership - regardless of whether you're vocal, not vocal, whatever your leadership style is."
"There's a lot of different leadership styles. But if you can do your job, everybody will respect you. And if you put the team first, everybody will respect you."
Leadership isn't a title - it's your behaviors.
The behaviors according to Belichick: Do your job. Put the team first.
Earn respect through actions.
(🎥@raydalio)
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Talent gets you noticed.
TNT keeps you elite.
Takes No Talent to:
→ Show up on time
→ Give full effort
→ Bring a great attitude
→ Listen and stay humble
→ Be a good teammate
TNT changes everything.
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Want the championship?
Earn the other ships first.
1. Ownership.
2. Leadership.
3. Friendship.
4. Hardship.
5. Sportsmanship.
6. Scholarship.
The trophy reveals what your team was willing to build when nobody was watching.
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Energy is contagious.
Success is contagious.
People are contagious.
Proof that who you hang with matters.
Choose wisely.👇
Performance is contagious, literally measurably so. @vvanedwards
"When people sit within 25 feet of a high performer, their own performance improves by 15%. If you sit within 25 feet of a low performer, your performance decreases by 30%."
The drag from a low performer outweighs the lift from a high one, which means proximity isn't neutral.
Who you sit near is quietly shaping who you become.
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Dan Campbell on the difference between good vs. great vs. elite players in the NFL.
“It's mindset. It's willpower...They really believe that the little things add up to the big things and nothing is too small. Everything matters.”
Talent can give you an opportunity, but an unwillingness to be outprepared, outworked, or outlasted is often what allows you to make the most of it.
📹: Coach2Coach Podcast
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Chip Kelly shares one of the simplest and greatest definitions of mental toughness from the famous Cal Rugby Coach Jack Clark.
"To be successful, the word I love is toughness. Mental toughness and physical toughness."
The definition: "Mental toughness is the ability to move on to the next most important thing."
"We all have events that occur in our lives, but what is our ability to move on to the next one and learn from the past experience? That's a great definition of mental toughness."
Simple and powerful. It's not about ignoring what happened - it's about not letting it paralyze you.
Then there's physical toughness: "Physical toughness for us is our desire for mission accomplishment is greater than our desire for personal comfort."
Read that again. Your mission matters more than your comfort. That's the standard.
"If you can be mentally and physically tough, then you can be successful both academically and athletically. That's really the core foundation of what we're hanging our hat on here."
Mental toughness: Move on to the next most important thing.
Physical toughness: Mission over comfort.
Master both - that's the foundation.
(🎥Beyond The X's and O's with @DilfersDimes )
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Curt Cignetti took Indiana from 3–9 to 11–2 in ONE season.
Standards you can steal. 🧵👇
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Simple exercise to attack selfishness within your team:
Challenge your team to finish this sentence: "You can tell someone is not interested in the team concept when ______."
Make a list of their answers:
1.
2.
3.
You've named the opponent: human nature. Now make a commitment to beat it.
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The best are obsessed with the process.
Prepare. Compete. Learn. Repeat.
Winning matters. But when winning becomes your identity, performance becomes a burden instead of a pursuit. 🔥
Rory McIlroy on the paradox of chasing success.
“I think it would be a pretty unfulfilling pursuit if you’re just chasing records and chasing results…If all you’re thinking about is winning and results, you’re playing the wrong game.”
One of the great paradoxes of performance is that the outcomes we want are rarely achieved by obsessing over the outcomes themselves.
Ironically, the less your identity depends on the outcome, the more freedom you often have to perform at your best.
If you enjoy golf or mental game lessons, follow along this weekend as I’ll be sharing more highlights and insights from the Open championship.
🎥: The Open
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Mike Brown has been to seven NBA Finals with four different organizations.
He’s coached LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Steph Curry, Tim Duncan, Kevin Durant, and Jalen Brunson.
When asked what all championship teams have in common, his answer had nothing to do with those nuclear talents.
“The commonality they all had is they all sacrificed for one another.
They were all connected.
They all had a competitive spirit.
And there was a high level of belief... Not just in the process, but in each other.”
He was able to boil down years of success in different places to 4 common traits:
🩸 Sacrifice
🎮 Connectivity
⚠️ Ownership
✝️ Belief
Championship teams don't win solely because they have the best player.
They create a championship environment from ownership starting with the best player all the way to the last player on the bench.
The entire organization is willing to surrender something for something bigger than themselves.
You need good players, yes...
But talent only determines your ceiling.
Sacrifice determines your capacity to reach it.
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Good teams have rules.
Great teams have standards.
Rules push you.
Standards drive you.
Rules tell you what you can’t do.
Standards define what you won’t accept.
You want to be good?
Follow the rules.
You want to be great?
Live the standard.
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Sean McVay said, “Winning is a habit; let’s make it ours.”
Winning is a lifestyle. It is how you do things. What habits make winning possible?
Here are the 6 Habits of Winners.
