September 8, 2017
Finish This Sentence: ‘I Am Unstoppable At ___’ ??
‘Crave the result so intensely that the work becomes irrelevant’ – Tim Grover in Relentless
–My latest read has been Tim Grover’s book Relentless, From Good to Great to Unstoppable.
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My biggest takeaways have been very similar as Jim Collins’ Good to Great.
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From a coaching standpoint, many of you have shared with me the question:
‘What do I do with athletes who don’t seem to care near as much as I do?’
That question kept going through my mind as I read this book.
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What if we asked our athletes which one applies:
- I want to be a good lacrosse player
- I want to be a great lacrosse player
- I want to be an unstoppable lacrosse player
If they answer either of the first two, that’s OK, as long as you ask a follow-up question:
- So what are 1 or 2 things in your life where you want to be unstoppable?
Maybe their family is struggling to pay bills, so they have to work a part-time job. They are choosing to be an unstoppable family supporter.
Maybe they want to get into a tough school, so academics are their first priority. They are choosing to be an unstoppable student.
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The key as a coach is push the young people we coach to be better than they think they can. Being ‘good enough’ at everything is not OK. Push your athletes to find 1 or 2 things where they are choosing to be unstoppable.
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So to answer the question from the title of this email, in my coaching profession, I am unstoppable at:
Teaching kids, through the avenue of sports, to be unstoppable
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What are you unstoppable at?
