( a little inside joke for the rook!)
Positive Attitude
- it truly goes a long way. It can make a long season of losing an enjoyable journey amongst friends. It can make a new job a challenge instead of a chore.
It can make the people around you more pleasant (or at least they seem to be.)
I think coaches need to possess a positive outlook or they make the room toxic.
Coaches are guests at the request of the players. Players want to be pushed, but they want to be treated with respect.
It's a tough chore to come in new and "change the culture" as Sean Payton said he wanted to do for the New Orleans Saints. But he did it. not everybody liked it because there are many who have so much invested in status quo they fight change.
Or they leave.
My first year coaching varsity girls i had three senior players on the team. Four others quit as soon as they found out one of two things - 1) old coach was not coming back; 2) new coach was me.
I could have used them that year.
We were dreadful, but we improved every year.
I believe we will be terrific this year.
Same school, same neighborhood.
But i have had my battles. I expect that anyone who tries to change too much too soon experiences the same thing.
You find out how many friends the dead have when you try to move a graveyard.....
From the Soundtrack to "Half Nelson", the story of a troubled and addicted teacher (Ryan Gosling) gets help from an unexpected source of positive attitude - one of his adolescent students.
Here's Broken Social Scene: Stars and Sons
check out the basketball scene - Awesome coaching style....!
sing along:
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