Saturday, April 13, 2024

Saturday Second Helping

"Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius

Recently the blog shared TLC - talent, leadership, competitiveness. Success comes before work in one place...the dictionary.

Commit to personal growth. The MVB blog can help. Click through to an interview with Rod Olson, coach and author of The Legacy Builder. In his books, he discusses "Speaking Greatness."

Three key points for today.

1) Make it 'crazy fun'. Your coaches can't wait for late August because they love volleyball, the competition, the work. Coaching is a 'relationship business'. Even coaches like Bill Belichick who seem only 'task-oriented' have people skills. 

2) "Don't trust anybody without a limp." Sports have costs...time, money, sacrificing your body. Arriving anywhere near your asymptote of excellence (high ceiling) is tough. 

3) "Begin with the end in mind." Daring to consider yourself a potential championship team implies the "COTE of armor" - "confidence, optimism, tenacity, and enthusiasm." Coach Scott Celli and his staff have an obligation to help you write a great story. That comes with preparation, top physical conditioning, and mental toughness. 

UCONN women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma has to tell players struggling or not playing, "It's hard. I know." Working hard doesn't guarantee elite results. Failure to work hard guarantees poorer results. 

Lagniappe. "This is an equal opportunity team." 

Somewhere in Melrose there may be an eighth grader who does the work to become an elite MVB athlete. If at the beginning of November, she's one of the top six players, she's going to play. Take that to the bank. 

Lagniappe 2. Most people need to be pushed to do their best. Not everyone. Bill Russell said, "my ego demands the success of my team." 

Coaches can't make you want success more than we do. 

 

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