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Change Your Thoughts, Change The Game – #4
You Gotta See this! (To judge or not to judge, that is the question): I am not sure if it is the “February blaws” or the snow storms in the past few weeks that have sparked some “spectator UN-intelligence”. And the emotional control, does not seem to be isolated...
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Change Your Thoughts, Change the Game – #3
The Yin and Yang of Team Sports - Try to describe the feeling of cold, if you can’t use the concept of hot. We only know the day, because there is a night. “Just think of how many concepts in this duality belief system depend on opposites: A person isn’t tall...
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From Survive to THRIVE, #BellLetsTalk
As parents with kids in sports it is a non stop sprint from one event to the next. Up at the crack of dawn, get yourself ready for work. Get the kids up and get them ready for school. Make lunches, breakfast, run upstairs to make sure all of them are up….and drag...
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Change Your Thoughts, Change the Game – #2
Watch the game as if it was a Mystery Movie What if we watched a game and truly let go of wanting anything out of that game for ourselves or for our players. What if we watched the game as if it was a mystery movie, and we were truly curious as to what will happen...
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Change Your Thoughts, Change The Game – The first in a series
You are driving to the arena, the field, the pitch, the diamond. Whatever it may be. And you are lost in your thoughts. In fact, so lost in your thoughts, you don’t even realize that you left your kid at home on the way to the game (true story!). We have all...
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T…Just a little bit…
In the last two blogs I have been discussing values in sports. We can’t talk about value based sport without talking about the value of RESPECT. No self-respecting blog about respect can start without referencing a line from Aretha Franklin’s song “Respect”....
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What the heck does “Fairness” even mean?
If fairness is a value that sport is embracing, should we spend a bit of time understanding what fairness even means? Excellent question, and one that needs to be thought through. After last weeks blog, that was the question I received the most. Let’s start with...
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The light and shadow side of a value – Fairness
Last week Public Policy Forum and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport held their summit on “The Values Proposition: Strengthening Sport in Canada”. #ValuesinSport. It is an important topic right now in the sports community as there is an overall trend in the...
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It’s a Start – #ValuesinSport
This week True Sport and the Canadian Centre for Ethics and Sport (CCES) hosted “The Values Proposition: Strengthening Sport in Canada” #ValuesinSport. A summit forum to share the findings of a cross country tour through five cities discussing with Canadians the...
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What muscle are you strengthening? Judgement or Kindness
I was watching a game of 13 – 15 year old boys play last weekend (the sport is irrelevant here, as this could apply to any sport), and one of the players was able to make a break, and go for it….the point, the goal, a touchdown, the net, whatever applies to your...
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