Counterpoint: Motivation Doesn’t Help A Person Who Is Not Motivated

This is not going to be a long article today. I’m going to keep this riff short and sweet. Motivational talks, motivational music, and motivation videos are all great tools. However, these tools are only useful when motivating those who already have self-motivation. A person who has no self-motivation can listen to motivational speeches around […]

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Counterpoint: Do More of Less to Unlock a Young Athletes Hidden Talents

Sometimes you can look like you’re not doing much and still make a great deal of progress. Conversely, you can look extremely busy and get nothing done. The latter happens often in youth sports. The former does not happen enough. Too often young athletes spend too much time doing a lot of nothing. It’s not […]

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Counterpoint: Goals Don’t Make Champions

If you read this blog often, then you know I’m a big advocate of goal setting. I have two cornerstone beliefs about goals: Goal progression must be used for difficult and long term goals. The process must be the goal and the goal must be the compass. If you buy-in to those two beliefs, then […]

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