"Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them..."~ Edgar Watson Howe
Pete Maravich Assembly Center
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Aristotle
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."~Aristotle
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Post play and guard play individual workouts
Coaches,
Email me at tkelsey@belhaven.edu for individual skill work drills. We have written out workouts for our post and perimeter players to use during our individual skill work sessions during the season.
Earl Nightingale
"One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your
field within three years. Within five years you'll be a
national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the
best people in the world at what you do."
— Earl Nightingale
Our attitudes
"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."~ Tom Blandi
Cory Dodds of The Academy of Sports Leadership:
The following is excerpt from Cory Dodds of The Academy of Sports Leadership:
Over the past decade I have watched many coaches in action and have detected a distinct difference between two dominant leadership styles. There are many ways to describe the leadership habits of coaches, but it appears to me that as leaders most fall into two categories—either drivers or builders. Drivers tend to be what leadership experts refer to as transactional leaders while builders fall pretty naturally into the category of transformational leaders. Drivers and builders have two very different leadership mind-sets and skill sets.
Drivers are generally after impressive achievements, especially the attainment of fame, status, popularity, or power. Not that there is anything wrong with that, as Jerry Seinfeld would say. But builders know that when success just means wealth, fame, status, and power it doesn‘t last and usually isn‘t satisfying. Builders commit to their calling and believe that people really do matter. For them, significance is found in contributing to the lives of their players.
Coaching is a major factor in any athlete‘s success. Most players recognize this. They‘ve been coached since they were tots playing in youth leagues. And for the most part they‘ve believed in and trusted their coaches. However, many adults reveal years later that they learned little from coaches they encountered in their student-athletic experience. Generally, the coaches that fail to impact student-athletes are transactional leaders.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Be a good one
Be a Good One
Pablo Picasso, the great Spanish painter and sculptor, once said this about his
ability: 'My mother said to me, if you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if
you become a monk, you'll end up as Pope. Instead, I became a painter and
wound up as Picasso.' No lack of confidence here!
But he would have agreed with Abraham Lincoln. 'Whatever you are,' said
Lincoln, 'be a good one.' He demonstrated the wisdom of that advice with his
own life. And in this present age, which often seems to be contented with
mediocrity, his words summon a yearning for improvement and growth.
I think it helps to remember that excellence is not a place at which we arrive
so much as a way of traveling. To do and be our best is a habit among those
who hear and understand Lincoln's admonition.
Viennese-born composer Frederick Loewe, whom we remember from his musical
scores that include - My Fair Lady, Gigi and Camelot, was not always famous.
He studied piano with the great masters of Europe and achieved huge success
as a musician and composer in his early years. But when he immigrated to the
United States, he failed as a piano virtuoso. For a while he tried other types of
work including prospecting for gold and boxing. But he never gave up his dream
and continued to play piano and write music.
During those lean years, he could not always afford to make payments on his
piano. One day, bent over the keyboard, he heard nothing but the music that he
played with such rare inspiration. When he finished and looked up, he was
startled to find that he had an audience - three moving men who were seated on
the floor.
They said nothing and made no movement toward the piano. Instead, they dug
into their pockets, pooled together enough money for the payment, placed it on
the piano and walked out, empty handed. Moved by the beauty of his music,
these men recognized excellence and responded to it.
Whatever you are, be a good one. If what you do is worth doing, if you
believe that who you are is of value, then you can't afford to be content
with mediocrity. When you choose the path of excellence through this life,
you will bring to it your best and receive the best it can offer in return. And
you will know what it is to be satisfied.
Author - Steve Goodier
Pablo Picasso, the great Spanish painter and sculptor, once said this about his
ability: 'My mother said to me, if you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if
you become a monk, you'll end up as Pope. Instead, I became a painter and
wound up as Picasso.' No lack of confidence here!
But he would have agreed with Abraham Lincoln. 'Whatever you are,' said
Lincoln, 'be a good one.' He demonstrated the wisdom of that advice with his
own life. And in this present age, which often seems to be contented with
mediocrity, his words summon a yearning for improvement and growth.
I think it helps to remember that excellence is not a place at which we arrive
so much as a way of traveling. To do and be our best is a habit among those
who hear and understand Lincoln's admonition.
Viennese-born composer Frederick Loewe, whom we remember from his musical
scores that include - My Fair Lady, Gigi and Camelot, was not always famous.
He studied piano with the great masters of Europe and achieved huge success
as a musician and composer in his early years. But when he immigrated to the
United States, he failed as a piano virtuoso. For a while he tried other types of
work including prospecting for gold and boxing. But he never gave up his dream
and continued to play piano and write music.
During those lean years, he could not always afford to make payments on his
piano. One day, bent over the keyboard, he heard nothing but the music that he
played with such rare inspiration. When he finished and looked up, he was
startled to find that he had an audience - three moving men who were seated on
the floor.
They said nothing and made no movement toward the piano. Instead, they dug
into their pockets, pooled together enough money for the payment, placed it on
the piano and walked out, empty handed. Moved by the beauty of his music,
these men recognized excellence and responded to it.
Whatever you are, be a good one. If what you do is worth doing, if you
believe that who you are is of value, then you can't afford to be content
with mediocrity. When you choose the path of excellence through this life,
you will bring to it your best and receive the best it can offer in return. And
you will know what it is to be satisfied.
Author - Steve Goodier
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Once in a while a person touches our lives with words and actions so special that they change us forever. These are the people who extend our vision and inspire us to higher levels of personal achievement. They are our heroes." H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
How to help others and article on Alabama's Brock Bennett
Here is an article from the Tuscaloosa News on how to make a difference for those you parent, coach or mentor. It is a story of never giving up and working for a dream. click here. (I will also send out an email on how you can help those in Tuscaloosa affected by the recent storms).
In athletics we read and hear about athletes from many different backgrounds. My usual interest is how that athlete or coach achieved success. Not a great play, a fantastic game or remarkable career, but what made them. I want to know the back story. I like to know Paul Harvey’s “Rest of the story.” Here is an article to encourage you and maybe someone you work with to not give up. It’s a great “rest of the story.”
Brock Bennett is the starting catcher for the University of Alabama baseball team. He is also on the “Johnny Bench watch list” this year (as he was last year) as the top catcher in the nation.
Most of us come across individuals who make a profound impression by their sheer effort, attitude, and perseverance. It may even be by how that person can focus completely on a task or goal.
We get chances in our journey through life to come in contact with special people that are able to make an impact on how we look at things. It may be from one brief encounter. It may be from a relationship that goes back many years. It could come from watching someone from a distance. Whatever the case may be we can be impacted from a variety of angles and in assortment of ways.
I was privileged to coach Brock at Greater Atlanta Christian School in Norcross, Georgia as a part of our basketball program. He came from a very good family and was a polite and mature young man for his age. Although basketball was not his main sport he gave 100% when he was with our team. I left to come to Belhaven before his senior year of high school so I was able to coach him from the 9th grade thru the 11th grade.
Finding out that he made the baseball team at Alabama I was happy for him, but never imagined he would end up having this kind of career. My wife has kept up with Brock’s family and been to see him play numerous times over the last couple of years. With our basketball recruiting schedule in the spring there has usually been a conflict which has kept me from seeing him play.
My wife does a much better job of keeping up with other people especially former students. Brock’s fiancé’ is a former student of hers also from Atlanta so there is a lot of communication through Facebook, text messages, emails and phone calls. We look forward to seeing him play at the SEC tournament in a couple of weeks.
Brock has changed the way I look at athletes and young people because of how he has made himself a player. Maybe he is the 1 out of 50 that would make it, but he is still that one. “Never giving up” is quite a motto to have and to live by in my opinion.
I wish I would have taken more time to enjoy the “Brock’s” that came my way through the years of coaching and teaching. You never know what you might miss and who you might miss on as far as potential.
I know I’ve missed my fair share of “Brock Bennett’s” in my teaching and coaching career of over 20 years. I wanted more than anything to be the kind of coach that was there to have an arm around the kid when he struck out on those opportunities in life or missed the big shot. Most of us as coaches and teachers get into the profession for that reason.
Life can get in the way. Bill need to be paid. Kids need to be fed. Deadlines have to be met. Our employers have expectations. We sometimes make the wrong thing the first thing instead of making the most important thing the first thing. We put tasks over relationships instead of relationships over tasks. The goals we have set for ourselves get further and further away and sometimes the stress increases. Our comfort becomes more important than our purpose. Our meaningfulness gets lost in our business.
There is a Brock Bennett out there waiting to be coached or encouraged. Someone for your to say, “You can do it” or “Atta boy”. That kid is waiting to be told they are valuable and are worthy.
I see more young people today that are insecure and it makes them have that inner struggle more to be comfortable in their own skin. We all have someone that is waiting to be encouraged by us, somewhere, somehow. We need to take the time to support and believe in them like someone and somewhere believed in us.
It doesn’t mean they have to reach the exact goals they have set. They don’t have to be given everything they want in life, just because they ask. It doesn’t mean they are entitled to have certain things. What it does mean is that they are given a chance to believe and have someone believe in them.
Be that person that believes in others. It could be your own child, friend, or possibly other family member. Be the type of person who will believe the best in someone else and what they have to offer. We have enough people that don’t believe in others. We need more people to find and encourage the “Brock Bennett’s” in our world.
Give your kid or one you work a chance to succeed. Brock put the effort in and made himself stronger, faster and a better baseball player. No one told him to invest the time and get up early. No one made him lift the weights and have a special diet. He did that on his own because he knew the price that had to be paid. Like most I would not have thought what Brock has achieved was possible. With his size and with the stiff competition I would have thought the road would be too hard. What he had inside is something that can’t be measured.
In the profession of coaching and teaching you never know what can happen when you work with young people. Watching Brock has taught me to not doubt those with big hearts no matter the size on the outside.
In athletics we read and hear about athletes from many different backgrounds. My usual interest is how that athlete or coach achieved success. Not a great play, a fantastic game or remarkable career, but what made them. I want to know the back story. I like to know Paul Harvey’s “Rest of the story.” Here is an article to encourage you and maybe someone you work with to not give up. It’s a great “rest of the story.”
Brock Bennett is the starting catcher for the University of Alabama baseball team. He is also on the “Johnny Bench watch list” this year (as he was last year) as the top catcher in the nation.
Most of us come across individuals who make a profound impression by their sheer effort, attitude, and perseverance. It may even be by how that person can focus completely on a task or goal.
We get chances in our journey through life to come in contact with special people that are able to make an impact on how we look at things. It may be from one brief encounter. It may be from a relationship that goes back many years. It could come from watching someone from a distance. Whatever the case may be we can be impacted from a variety of angles and in assortment of ways.
I was privileged to coach Brock at Greater Atlanta Christian School in Norcross, Georgia as a part of our basketball program. He came from a very good family and was a polite and mature young man for his age. Although basketball was not his main sport he gave 100% when he was with our team. I left to come to Belhaven before his senior year of high school so I was able to coach him from the 9th grade thru the 11th grade.
Finding out that he made the baseball team at Alabama I was happy for him, but never imagined he would end up having this kind of career. My wife has kept up with Brock’s family and been to see him play numerous times over the last couple of years. With our basketball recruiting schedule in the spring there has usually been a conflict which has kept me from seeing him play.
My wife does a much better job of keeping up with other people especially former students. Brock’s fiancé’ is a former student of hers also from Atlanta so there is a lot of communication through Facebook, text messages, emails and phone calls. We look forward to seeing him play at the SEC tournament in a couple of weeks.
Brock has changed the way I look at athletes and young people because of how he has made himself a player. Maybe he is the 1 out of 50 that would make it, but he is still that one. “Never giving up” is quite a motto to have and to live by in my opinion.
I wish I would have taken more time to enjoy the “Brock’s” that came my way through the years of coaching and teaching. You never know what you might miss and who you might miss on as far as potential.
I know I’ve missed my fair share of “Brock Bennett’s” in my teaching and coaching career of over 20 years. I wanted more than anything to be the kind of coach that was there to have an arm around the kid when he struck out on those opportunities in life or missed the big shot. Most of us as coaches and teachers get into the profession for that reason.
Life can get in the way. Bill need to be paid. Kids need to be fed. Deadlines have to be met. Our employers have expectations. We sometimes make the wrong thing the first thing instead of making the most important thing the first thing. We put tasks over relationships instead of relationships over tasks. The goals we have set for ourselves get further and further away and sometimes the stress increases. Our comfort becomes more important than our purpose. Our meaningfulness gets lost in our business.
There is a Brock Bennett out there waiting to be coached or encouraged. Someone for your to say, “You can do it” or “Atta boy”. That kid is waiting to be told they are valuable and are worthy.
I see more young people today that are insecure and it makes them have that inner struggle more to be comfortable in their own skin. We all have someone that is waiting to be encouraged by us, somewhere, somehow. We need to take the time to support and believe in them like someone and somewhere believed in us.
It doesn’t mean they have to reach the exact goals they have set. They don’t have to be given everything they want in life, just because they ask. It doesn’t mean they are entitled to have certain things. What it does mean is that they are given a chance to believe and have someone believe in them.
Be that person that believes in others. It could be your own child, friend, or possibly other family member. Be the type of person who will believe the best in someone else and what they have to offer. We have enough people that don’t believe in others. We need more people to find and encourage the “Brock Bennett’s” in our world.
Give your kid or one you work a chance to succeed. Brock put the effort in and made himself stronger, faster and a better baseball player. No one told him to invest the time and get up early. No one made him lift the weights and have a special diet. He did that on his own because he knew the price that had to be paid. Like most I would not have thought what Brock has achieved was possible. With his size and with the stiff competition I would have thought the road would be too hard. What he had inside is something that can’t be measured.
In the profession of coaching and teaching you never know what can happen when you work with young people. Watching Brock has taught me to not doubt those with big hearts no matter the size on the outside.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
From Seth Godin's blog, "What is High School for?"
What's high school for?
Perhaps we could endeavor to teach our future the following:
•How to focus intently on a problem until it's solved.
•The benefit of postponing short-term satisfaction in exchange for long-term success.
•How to read critically.
•The power of being able to lead groups of peers without receiving clear delegated authority.
•An understanding of the extraordinary power of the scientific method, in just about any situation or endeavor.
•How to persuasively present ideas in multiple forms, especially in writing and before a group.
•Project management. Self-management and the management of ideas, projects and people.
•Personal finance. Understanding the truth about money and debt and leverage.
•An insatiable desire (and the ability) to learn more. Forever.
•Most of all, the self-reliance that comes from understanding that relentless hard work can be applied to solve problems worth solving.
Perhaps we could endeavor to teach our future the following:
•How to focus intently on a problem until it's solved.
•The benefit of postponing short-term satisfaction in exchange for long-term success.
•How to read critically.
•The power of being able to lead groups of peers without receiving clear delegated authority.
•An understanding of the extraordinary power of the scientific method, in just about any situation or endeavor.
•How to persuasively present ideas in multiple forms, especially in writing and before a group.
•Project management. Self-management and the management of ideas, projects and people.
•Personal finance. Understanding the truth about money and debt and leverage.
•An insatiable desire (and the ability) to learn more. Forever.
•Most of all, the self-reliance that comes from understanding that relentless hard work can be applied to solve problems worth solving.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." — Norman Vincent Peale
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
— Norman Vincent Peale
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