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Yelling at Players is the Adult version of a temper tantrum!
With more recent news about fights between players, and parents on the ice with a hockey stick hitting people, I can't think of a better message to share from this link that I was just sent yesterday. A heart warming (yes even in -50 degrees Celsius) a lesson from...
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Its OK to be Frustrated…just don’t get attached.
Life is will always bring us challenges and frustrations, at what often feels like the worst possible time. That is a guarantee. “S#!T will always happen. It’s how we experience the “S#!T” that matters. Just this week I had the opportunity to ski at Whistler for...
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Change Your Thoughts, Change the Game Series – #5
Let me reference the stereo typical Canadian family whose kid(s) play hockey, and has the aspiration to either be in the NHL, on the Olympic team or play for the Canadian Junior team or even the Canada Games (happening as we speak!). I would bet a case of beer...
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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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