Self-awareness is the ability to understand how and why you feel the way you feel about yourself. Self-awareness also deals with understanding how and why you feel about the world around you. It’s important to have self-awareness if you want to live a purposeful life. The only way you can identify what you love to […]
As a college athlete, I never reached the best version of myself. Being self-aware of the reasons why is crucial to what I do today. It’s a big part of what drives me to write about youth sports, parenting, and pursuing difficult goals. My hope is that reflecting upon my failures can help prevent others […]
Assigning self-reflection homework is a wonderful tool to help athletes develop emotional intelligence. As I wrote a few days ago, emotional intelligence is one of the first skills coaches should invest in developing within their athletes. Without it, everything else suffers. It’s important to realize emotional intelligence is not something athletes are just born with. […]