Watch Your Mouth
Last weekend I had the privilege of watching one of my sons play in a baseball tournament. It was a semifinal game at 8 AM...a little early for a game perhaps, but a beautiful day for baseball. I was enjoying a really good morning, visiting with a good friend who...
Burnout
This week's post comes from a good friend and Board member of CFC -- Alec Lemmon, Director of Coaching for Toca FC. Alec writes an impactful post on the idea of burnout. In his post, Alec presents a powerful contrast between burnout and love, and he gives us...
Anger Redefined
What makes you angry? Having your instructions ignored? Bad drivers? Maybe waiting in a line that moves too slowly? Most of us probably have been bothered by all of these from time to time. But most of us probably also understand that in the scheme of things,...
Success Defined
In the first post in this series, we mentioned that success is something that everyone desires, and yet few people define it the same way. Is success found in the results? Trophies? Awards and recognition? Is it found in effort and attitude? Since there are so many...
Slammed
We all know the feeling. The to-do list never ends. Life can feel exhausting, and the more capable we become, the more work we have to do. It's like our workload increases as fast or faster than our capacity. Maybe that's why it's called the rat race. It never...
Unlikely Heroes
Imagine if we could turn back the clock a month and pose this question: On May 14th the Cleveland Cavaliers are going to eliminate Chicago in game 6 on the road...who will be the Cavs leading scorer? I'm certain the top 3 guesses would be LeBron, Kyrie or Kevin Love....
Hope/Power
The sun will come out tomorrow Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow -- there'll be sun Regardless of how much you do or don't enjoy the show "Annie", there must be something to that idea that strikes a chord with people. "Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow..."...
Being a “Boring” Coach in a World of Consumers
Short and sweet post today. We were talking this week at one of the Coaching Life Group meetings and a middle school basketball Coach put this one out there -- he said that he's heard from some of his co-workers at the school that they don't come to the 7th grade...
Connect with CFC!
Our goal at Community for Coaches is to encourage, equip, and inspire coaches to use their platform to make a difference for good in the lives of their athletes. With that, we write one blog post per week, send out social media messages multiple times per day, and...
7 Suggestions for Success: Introduction
Success. We all know that word, but what does it mean? Chances are that if you asked the next ten people you talked to how they would define success, you would get ten different definitions. You may run into a common theme or two, but the diversity of definitions...