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The Athlete's Responsibility Manual
Develop Responsible Athletes who own their choices, decisions, and actions. Need your athletes to take more responsibility for themselves? Wish your athletes would do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, and how it needs to be done without much prodding and oversight from you? Want your athletes to reliably produce more results rather than a litany of excuses?
Numerous coaches are frustrated with today s athletes' inability to effectively handle their responsibilities. When athletes aren't responsible for themselves, it puts an extra and unnecessary burden on your coaching staff and team, not to mention significantly hurts your program s chances of success.
The Athlete's Responsibility Manual provides a practical, six-module Responsibility Training Program for your team. It is the much-anticipated prequel to our highly popular Team Captain's Leadership Manual and is presented in the same bite-sized, interactive, athlete-friendly workbook format. It can be easily implemented with your entire team over the course of six modules - and is especially effective for those athletes who struggle to take responsibility for themselves.
Your athletes will learn, practice, and master the 6 HABITS OF RESPONSIBLE ATHLETES 1. Take Charge of Your Choices 2. Make Helpful vs. Hurtful Choices 3. Discipline Yourself So Others Don't Have To 4. Control the Controllables 5. Own and Learn from Your Mistakes 6. Follow Through and Finish the Job
By adopting these six critical attitudes and actions, your athletes will set themselves and your team up to achieve high-level success on and off the playing fields and throughout the game of life. Plus, it takes much of the burden off of you to have to continually monitor and motivate them.
Numerous coaches are frustrated with today s athletes' inability to effectively handle their responsibilities. When athletes aren't responsible for themselves, it puts an extra and unnecessary burden on your coaching staff and team, not to mention significantly hurts your program s chances of success.
The Athlete's Responsibility Manual provides a practical, six-module Responsibility Training Program for your team. It is the much-anticipated prequel to our highly popular Team Captain's Leadership Manual and is presented in the same bite-sized, interactive, athlete-friendly workbook format. It can be easily implemented with your entire team over the course of six modules - and is especially effective for those athletes who struggle to take responsibility for themselves.
Your athletes will learn, practice, and master the 6 HABITS OF RESPONSIBLE ATHLETES 1. Take Charge of Your Choices 2. Make Helpful vs. Hurtful Choices 3. Discipline Yourself So Others Don't Have To 4. Control the Controllables 5. Own and Learn from Your Mistakes 6. Follow Through and Finish the Job
By adopting these six critical attitudes and actions, your athletes will set themselves and your team up to achieve high-level success on and off the playing fields and throughout the game of life. Plus, it takes much of the burden off of you to have to continually monitor and motivate them.
136 pages, Paperback
Published August 31, 2016
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April 23, 2023
"Recognize and respect the ripple effect your behavior creates."
"You get to choose your attitude, effort, focus, participation, mental toughness, whether or not you will persist and push through"
"You have the power to create the kind of life you want."
Victor Mentality:
Powerful
Persistent
Determined
Comitted
Hopeful
Confident
Accept Challenges
Make things happen
Optimistic
Seek Solutions
See failure as temporary
Failure motivates to do better
"It is up to me to make it happen."
"What else could I do that will help me get the result I want?"
Make the helpful choice instead of the hurtful choice.
Helpful choices are hard - they are the price of success and you must be willing to pay it.
Helpul choices earn you the right to believe you can and will be successful because you have paid the price of success.
Investment Mentality vs. sacrifice mentality
Why? Become the best. Invest.
Event+Response = Outcome
100% focus in the present moment.
WIN = What's Important Now
Forget about past mistakes and refocus on the present.
Responsible athletes:
1. Act with a sense of urgency
2. Identify and focus on priorities
3. Follow through and execute
4. Build in buffers, back up plans
5. Finish the job completely
Make things happen and get things done.
You only get so much time on the clock.
Don't take your experiences for granted. Don't assume you will get another chance. Don't underestimate the talent, strength, desire, and willpower of your opponents. Seize the opportunities you have before you today and take care of your responsibilities now.
Don't tell me you want to win, show me you want to win.
Following through and executing the essentials are the ultimate measure of commitment and responsibility.
"Excellence is mundane. Excellence is accomplished through deliberate actions, ordinary in themselves, performed consistently and carefully, made into habits, compounded together, added up over time. Since it is mundane, it within the reach of everyone, all the time." - Anson Dorrance
Embrace the suck. It separates you from those who say they want to win, to those who pay the price of winning.
Responsible athletes arrive early, complete things ahead of time, prepare to play multiple rolls, and build in buffers of time to guide against the unexpected..
"You get to choose your attitude, effort, focus, participation, mental toughness, whether or not you will persist and push through"
"You have the power to create the kind of life you want."
Victor Mentality:
Powerful
Persistent
Determined
Comitted
Hopeful
Confident
Accept Challenges
Make things happen
Optimistic
Seek Solutions
See failure as temporary
Failure motivates to do better
"It is up to me to make it happen."
"What else could I do that will help me get the result I want?"
Make the helpful choice instead of the hurtful choice.
Helpful choices are hard - they are the price of success and you must be willing to pay it.
Helpul choices earn you the right to believe you can and will be successful because you have paid the price of success.
Investment Mentality vs. sacrifice mentality
Why? Become the best. Invest.
Event+Response = Outcome
100% focus in the present moment.
WIN = What's Important Now
Forget about past mistakes and refocus on the present.
Responsible athletes:
1. Act with a sense of urgency
2. Identify and focus on priorities
3. Follow through and execute
4. Build in buffers, back up plans
5. Finish the job completely
Make things happen and get things done.
You only get so much time on the clock.
Don't take your experiences for granted. Don't assume you will get another chance. Don't underestimate the talent, strength, desire, and willpower of your opponents. Seize the opportunities you have before you today and take care of your responsibilities now.
Don't tell me you want to win, show me you want to win.
Following through and executing the essentials are the ultimate measure of commitment and responsibility.
"Excellence is mundane. Excellence is accomplished through deliberate actions, ordinary in themselves, performed consistently and carefully, made into habits, compounded together, added up over time. Since it is mundane, it within the reach of everyone, all the time." - Anson Dorrance
Embrace the suck. It separates you from those who say they want to win, to those who pay the price of winning.
Responsible athletes arrive early, complete things ahead of time, prepare to play multiple rolls, and build in buffers of time to guide against the unexpected..
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