A friend and work colleague of mine was recently appointed as senior coach of a local football club for the first time, and asked me to be his assistant. I respect and admire this guy, who’s a lot younger than me, very much, so it was definitely an honour to be asked. Despite my extensive […]
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This be could be profound, or it could be bleedingly obvious. One person’s treasure is another’s trash. As a practitioner, like you, I take notice how other practitioners do their thing, how they present themselves publicly, what they choose to emphasise and how they message it. One of the things I observe, is what I
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The Request I’d love your help. Can I please get your honest and skilful thoughts? I recently wrote a message to the mother (and sponsor) of one of my clients. Before and after sending it, I re-read it couple of times. It was a situation where I expressed my professional opinion-personal values in a way
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Junior Footy Like me, my 5 years younger brother Mitch, has been coaching all his career. He gives a lot to his community and with two tween-age boys, he’s also co-coaching one of their football teams with another Dad. Didn’t set out to be the one of the coaches, but in the end they had
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Lance Believe it or not, after all the water under the bridge, I still listen to what Lance Armstrong has to say in and around professional cycling. Stay with me 🙂 He has some great insights, which demonstrate other factors he leveraged to win the biggest bike races. I’m not condoning what he did and I
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It was just a couple of days ago. He’d graciously taken the conversational lead, by telling me where he’d been in the last few days of our drawn out SMS correspondence to line up the meeting, he asked me where I lived and mentioned he grew up nearby. We discussed riding bikes and surfing, and
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*This is the 3rd of a series of 3 pieces. They’re chronologically linked, but can be read as standalone articles if chosen. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2 A New Deal I pulled into the beautiful little stop of Anglers Rest with about 200kms ridden under my belt, feeling horrid and ready to pull the
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*This is the 2nd of a series of 3 pieces. They’re chronologically linked, but can be read as standalone articles if chosen. Here’s Part 1 and Part 3 The Meeting Sometimes, it’s so simple. I was gone. And over it. At a rest stop, sitting on the grass 200km into a 235km cycling event, I’d had
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*This is the 1st of a series of 3 pieces. They’re chronologically linked, but can be read as standalone articles if chosen. Here’s Part 2 and Part 3 The internal self-talk was pretty bad. “This is so shit.” “It doesn’t make sense. I prepared so well.” “I know it’s normal to be challenged, but this fucked”.
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This is probably a nice reminder. Of something we’ve heard across our entire lives, something eternally true. It’s also something that we can lose connection with, where we don’t believe it will be enough. “Just do your best”. Re-connecting to Truth I’ve always found it fascinating how personal insights are so simple on the surface,
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“Thank you! Thank you! Thank you so much!” she said with genuine gratitude, humility and joy. But should she have? Italian Elisa Balsamo had just crossed the line first in the Ghent-Wevelgem road race. It’s one of pro cycling‘s most prestigious races in the Belgian spring classics part of the season. In a total hot
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You’ve got a situation you’re not happy with. In the right moment with the right person, when you’re honest, it’s really not good. It ticks the minimal boxes and there’s plenty of qualifications you can list, but it’s hardly lighting you up and allowing your potential to express itself. Thing is, it’s not as though
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