The following is an excerpt from a conversation with a hockey parent. As always the sport really does not matter. If it is really true, it applies to all things, including non sport related activities. I was talking with a father of a travel hockey player. After playing just one year at his high school the father and son ( and there is a whole other blog on just that subject coming) decided...

THE CONCLUSION: I’d like to be able telling you that this story had a happy conclusion but as in life things aren’t as cut and dried as Id like them to be. In many instances the answers are straight forward, black and white. This is how I like things to be. I don’t like entitlement, politics, or prejudice. I did not hear from this coach for a couple of weeks. As the “zen&...

To say that I had gotten over what I saw unfold during that game yesterday would have been untrue. I was unhappy the whole day. I began to realize if I was upset, how this must affect the children, coaches, and parents attending and playing in these events on a regular basis.  How, even subconsciously must this wear and tear at them beneath the surface and then come out in some other time ...

Well here is what happened. The top player was put into a rotation just like everyone else. In this particular game the team they were playing was not very good. The score was going to be lopsided in his teams favor. You could see it from the start. He came up to me before the game started and asked what I thought. I said why don’t you make two equal teams of five and just rotate them eve...

I was recently called in by a coach to address the problems on his basketball team. Once again, the team, the sport, the organization are unimportant. If our paradigm is true, and it is, then it should be applicable to sports, activities, business and life.             He was having problems with one of his players. The player in question was...