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Car Ride Home – Part 4

"If you want to keep playing, you need to take a good hard look at yourself." The video has the father saying these words to his son, but the video is asking us, as the adults to take a good hard look at what we are doing in these car rides. Additionally they zoom in on the father when he…
Grit Leadership
December 17, 2022
CoachingGrowth MindsetParenting

Car Ride Home – Part 3

"We only get so many rides home with our kids before they are gone from our lives. What do we want them to remember about those car rides?" - Girls High School Varsity Basketball Coach (Michigan).  It is not hard to see how much this man cares for and loves his son. We are all pretty much the same. We love and care…
Grit Leadership
December 10, 2022
CoachingGrowth MindsetParenting

Car Ride Home – Part 2

"When it comes to our kids in sports, we need to be supportive and positive. We want to encourage our kids to be themselves, to make mistakes, and to learn. Your kid may be too nervous and too tight to put themselves out there if they know they'll hear about any mistakes from their coaches, from social media, and from their parents."…
Grit Leadership
December 3, 2022
CoachingGrowth MindsetParenting

The Car Ride Home – Part 1

"...parental actions and conversations after games made them (kids) feel as though their value and worth in their parents’ eyes was tied to their athletic performance, and the wins and losses of their team." - John O'Sullivan, Changing the Game Project Learn about what we mean to do, what we accidentally are doing, what we need to start doing, and the exception to…
Grit Leadership
November 23, 2022
CoachingGrowth MindsetNewsParenting

Baylor University Presents: “What is a Coach?”

Coaches. Athletic Directors. Leaders:Join Paul Putz, Elizabeth Bounds, Valorie Kondos Field, and myself on October 28 as we discuss this critical role as coach and leader for a generation of people that needs us now more than ever! Schools once used athletics as a way to promote physical health, teach skills, build character, and create community. But as youth athletics have transformed and emerged…
Grit Leadership
October 11, 2022
CoachingParenting

Two Pilots

Which Pilot do you want to fly with? It's obvious, right? I might not be alone when I say that often when it gets tough, my natural inclination is to hunker down, and do what is most natural for me to survive, for me to make it through (pilot one). We know that our natural inclination is not always right,…
Grit Leadership
February 21, 2022
CoachingGrowth MindsetParentingVideos

Raising Resilient Kids: Part 3

PART 3: Effort Counts Twice - When it comes to building Grit, growth mindsets are the key. One of Angela Duckworth's keys to growth mindset development is understanding that effort counts twice. Listen as Kevin explains how research comes to life in this segment about building grit in those we lead. (runtime = 9:54) https://youtu.be/b9B8X4xwQ7M No one has to "get…
Grit Leadership
February 1, 2022
CoachingGrowth MindsetParentingVideos

Raising Resilient Kids: Part 2

PART 2: What is Grit? Why do I need Grit? Do my kids or my team or my company have grit? What does it take to develop grit? Grit is a marathon, not a sprint. Grit is a slow consistent build. In a world built on immediate gratification, that celebrates rapid success and fast money, grit is unsurprisingly absent. We…
Grit Leadership
February 1, 2022
CoachingGrowth MindsetParentingVideos

Raising Resilient Kids: Part 1

PART 1: Two ways to lead...the norm, the known, the easier more normal flow of society type of leadership or the rough, less traveled, more challenging alternative that we don't know much about. Both are good, both are done by well-meaning loving people. We have a choice. We get to decide what path we will choose each day. The fork…
Grit Leadership
February 1, 2022
CoachingParentingPodcasts

Sport.Faith.Life.

Why does grit matter for your school? A great blog for any leader to listen to, Grit Leadership was highlighted on this blog in fall of 2021. Listen to the "True Grit" podcast through Sport.Faith.Life. by clicking here. The companion blog for this podcast can be found in its original posting here. The Sport.Faith.Life. website with other great podcast guests…
Grit Leadership
January 5, 2022