Why Your Sports Family Needs a Written Plan

If you are like me, you have big dreams for your children. You believe the sky is the limit. The only thing that can hold them back is their motivation to keep going as goals get progressively harder as they get older. Dream big, work hard, bounce back from failure, and keep pursuing bigger goals. […]

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Are Your Children Motivated by Happiness or Satisfaction?

Happiness and satisfaction are two distinct things. This is according to research done by the winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics, psychologist Daniel Kahneman. In a very good article in Quatrz Magazine covering Kahneman’s research they explain the difference like this: Happiness is a momentary experience that arises spontaneously and is fleeting. Meanwhile, […]

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Another Clue on How To Build Pain Tolerance

I’ve learned to accept that pain is part of growth. Not necessarily emotional pain, and surely not pain from disease. The pain I’ve learned to accept is the pain from pushing yourself out of your comfort zone. Typically this pain is the result of training or competing and is more mental than physical. Looking back […]

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