By all accounts our first child has been an incredibly ‘easy’ baby (I’m now frantically knocking on wood for daring to type that). I guess she is a technically a toddler at eighteen months of age. We have a very short list of areas that Merriam really gives us challenge. One of those areas thoughContinue reading “Go Find Boredom“
Tag Archives: Philosophy
A Love Triangle, of Sorts
I was doing a consultation with a high school coach last week when I found myself saying something realized I repeat often, ‘I love pyramids, I use them for everything.’ The topic was programming training for a track season and I was sharing with her how I organize my training components into a pyramid thatContinue reading “A Love Triangle, of Sorts“
On Coachability
There is no trait I have found in an athlete with a higher correlation to performance than coachability. Yes, I know, shocking to hear this from a coach. Newsflash, coach likes it when his athletes do what he says! Actually just doing what coach says is not true coachability but we will get to thatContinue reading “On Coachability”
The Inconvenience of Connection
This past weekend our seven-month-old daughter Merriam got to meet her Great Uncle Pat, whom I was named after, for the first time. They gazed into each other’s eyes, and she reacted to his voice with great curiosity. Those of us watching were pulled into the moment, as these two humans separated in time byContinue reading “The Inconvenience of Connection”