by Ryan Krzykowski | Jan 6, 2020 | Blog 1, Ryan Krzykowski
Pause by Ryan Krzykowski Happy New Year and welcome to 2020. As we flip the calendar to a new year and decade, it’s a natural time to reflect and ask ourselves what we can do to live better. What’s working well? What needs to be cleaned up? How can I...
by Ryan Krzykowski | Dec 23, 2019 | Blog 1, Ryan Krzykowski
2019 – What a Year by Ryan Krzykowski As I type this, 2019 is drawing to a close. Looking back on the past 12 months, I feel tremendous gratitude. I am so incredibly grateful for the calling we are working to live out: to help coaches at all levels develop and...
by Ryan Krzykowski | Dec 9, 2019 | Blog 1, Ryan Krzykowski
Legacy, or Just Clothes? by Ryan Krzykowski How can a jersey or its number mean something to somebody? At the end of the day, it’s just a piece of fabric. I remember hearing this from Jerry Seinfeld years ago: Loyalty to any one sports team is pretty hard to...
by Ryan Krzykowski | Nov 25, 2019 | Blog 1, Ryan Krzykowski
Transformational by Ryan Krzykowski Writing well matters to me. I know I’m not the greatest writer in the world, but I do want to write reasonably well. Spelling words correctly, phrasing ideas in ways that draw in a reader, avoiding hacky cliches — all...
by Ryan Krzykowski | Nov 11, 2019 | Blog 1, Ryan Krzykowski
The 6th grade football season ended a couple weekends ago, and it was incredibly rewarding. I don’t know if I’ve ever coached a season that required more of me personally, and I couldn’t be much more proud of the effort that the players and coaches...
by Ryan Krzykowski | Oct 28, 2019 | Blog 1, Ryan Krzykowski
Giving it Away by Ryan Krzykowski I stumbled upon something last week at practice that I probably kind of knew before, but had never consciously thought about. The 6th grade football season I’m coaching was in week 13 since our first practice, and I was...