By: Adam Sarancik Author of: Coaching Champions for Life After 40+ years in coaching, certain things are automatic for me. One of those things is, from the moment a practice, training session, game or season is done, I immediately begin replaying it minute-by-minute in my mind. My entire focus is on whether I was better today than yesterday and how can I get better tomorrow. I know that if I am better tomorrow, our team will be better tomorrow. This self-analysis occurs regardless of whether I thought the practice or training session went well or whether we won the game or the championship. I assume, and I have learned, we can always be better. We must be better because our competition will be better. I must be better because my obligation as a teacher, role model, and mentor is to develop my players to be the best people, athletes, and players they can be regardless of the competition. One of the axioms coaches stress to their players is to learn and dedicate themselves to the process. Good results are obtained from a consistent and strict adherence to the process. The same is true for good coaching. When I begin my self-reflection on how I can be better as a coach, I start with my coaching methodology. Even if all of my goals for my team as people, athletes, and players were achieved, my mindset is, my standards and goals need to be raised. When doing this, I intensely scrutinize the details of my teaching and development process. I have learned that I will typically be pleased with the results of my coaching if, on a daily basis, I ask myself the following questions to guide my process for the next day:
If you can answer yes to each of these questions every day, you are executing championship practices and training sessions. More importantly, you are training Champions for Life.
Adam Sarancik is the Author of Four Amazon Top 100 Best Selling Baseball Coaching Books:
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