When asked what I’ve learned from coaching, or being a coach, I have many thoughts. I have been coached in one fashion or another, since I was 4 years old and started playing baseball. The best of the best never settle, the best are coached and were willing to deal with their own insecurities for the benefit of getting better. There have been really tough coaches, loud and soft spoken coaches. Others have been stuck within the drama and politics and everyone one of these has had an impact on how I think. Some coaches coach because they are trying to relive their past through their client—kind of like that friend of yours that will tell you how great they were in high school, or the dad trying to relive his youth by forcing activities on their kids. The best coaches focus on transformation. On how you think, how you speak, how you act, how you prepare, etc.. Most importantly, a great coach will help you find the best you. That means helping you get rid of the comparison game and fully developing the talents that you were given.

The best coaches I have had, have gotten me to change my mindset on what I believe is possible or true. They have been able to help me expand my comfort zone by attacking those boundaries. They have walked me through the journey by challenging me with questions that expose my hypocrisy or my ego. Once those things are out of the way, I learned to prepare for the calls, make the calls, nail the scripting, grow the production and the team. But, and it is a big but……….you have to accept the fact that what you think is true, may not be the truth! (thank you Coach Andy Andrews) You have to understand how the game is played (thank you Coach Jake) because “once you know the rules, you can play the game.” You simply have to make the choice to do the hard stuff that nobody else will do, once you learn that universal truth, all things become possible and you can create a world where you make the rules.