Mental Performance Coordinator • Seattle Mariners • ADB • BDB • Think Clear, Move Free • #HaleYeah 🤙🏼 • Thoughts are my own.
Colorado, USA
Joined January 2010
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When I was 5 I told my dad I wanted to play baseball & he signed me up w/o hesitation. I didn’t care if “girls played softball” so neither did he. I fell in love w/ the game & I fell in love w/ doing what most people thought I couldn’t or shouldn’t. All because dad said I could.
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Loved appearing on the Inner Game podcast to talk all things excellence.
Check it out here: youtu.be/Jerof3QRbgc?is=clEn…
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No exaggeration, this guy might be the best interview in pro sports right now
Grateful for the people here in Seattle & the opportunity we have to make an impact through Mental Performance.
I believe deeply in our work & our responsibility to keep getting better.
We're looking for someone who shares that commitment. Check out the opening below!
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Joe Mazzulla on reports of the Celtics vibes being high at training camp
"Every team you lead is the most together team right now. Because we haven't traveled. No one's gotten benched. No one's been on a losing streak. No one's gotten blamed in the media. No one's had to go stand in the corner for 10 minutes and not get the ball. So, you learn those things as the season goes on, and you just learn how to work through those things together. And you can't simulate those. It just comes with time. And so, right now I would say all 30 teams feel great about themselves, and we got to wait till adversity hits. And adversity is even a strong word. There's nothing really adverse about playing in the NBA. But we got to wait until stuff doesn't go your way, and then you got to figure out who we are and how we're going to be at our best."
(Via @NoaDalzell)
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If you want to win more games, win more of the moments that eventually decide them.
Win the Monday after a loss by helping your team learn, reset, and move forward.
Win the post-practice conversation with the player who is frustrated about their role.
Win the staff meeting by creating enough trust for people to disagree and let the best idea win.
Win the room by becoming a better storyteller who can capture attention and make the message stick.
Win the ride home by learning how to leave enough of the job at work that you can recover and come back better tomorrow.
We teach athletes to build a process because performance on game day is the accumulation of what they repeatedly do beforehand.
Leadership works the same way.
The scoreboard gets everyone’s attention, but many of the moments that eventually determine it happen long before the game begins.
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6. People become what the room expects of them.
If the room lets a standard slide, it slides.
If the room corrects the small thing every single day, people stop believing small things are small.
My goal is to build an environment where success is inevitable.
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Justin Verlander got emotional talking about what he hopes his daughter takes from watching his 21-year career.
“There’s just a level of commitment it takes to be great at something, you know, and I hope she understands.”
He acknowledged the cost of the pursuit too.
“I left home. She’s in school and I wasn’t there… I’m happy that I get the opportunity now to make up for lost time.”
For every parent who has wrestled with the guilt that can accompany ambition, don't forget what your kids get to witness too.
They get to see Mom or Dad pursue something with ambition. They get to see what commitment looks like. They get to watch you keep showing up when things are difficult.
They get to see you pursue a dream or spend your career helping someone else pursue theirs.
They get to witness discipline, resilience, service and the pursuit of excellence modeled in real time.
Sometimes we become so focused on the moments our kids missed with us that we forget about the example they witnessed because of us.
🎥: Detroit Tigers YouTube
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The hardest lesson NFL MVP Steve Young ever had to learn.
"Fear-based thinking is a liar. I was afraid of failure, so much so that I paid this price so that I could have success. I learned as an older person, that's a fallacy. That's fraudulent."
"I'm not going to pay for success with my worry and fretting. Man, fame is a thief. Fear-based thinking is a thief. There's a lot of thieves in life."
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Dan Campbell on the difference between good vs. great vs. elite players in the NFL.
“It's mindset. It's willpower...They really believe that the little things add up to the big things and nothing is too small. Everything matters.”
Talent can give you an opportunity, but an unwillingness to be outprepared, outworked, or outlasted is often what allows you to make the most of it.
📹: Coach2Coach Podcast
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Sean McVay says one of the biggest mistakes young leaders make is trying to be liked and respected at the same time
“Cooper Kupp changed my life. It’s uniquely special because my first year as a head coach coincided with his rookie year. I’m a better human, I’m a better coach, I’m a better person because of my relationship and the influence Cooper Kupp’s had on me.”
“We’ve had to have some honest conversations. And here’s the reality: you have a responsibility to the collective. It doesn’t mean you’re right. I’ve been wrong before. I’ll be wrong again. It doesn’t change my love, my appreciation, my gratitude for everything that he’s meant.”
“Sometimes decisions that you try to make for the collective don’t necessarily fit with people that are so special.”
“You try to say it’s business, it’s personal, it all is intermixed. I don’t think you can separate it. Tough decisions have to be made.”
“One of the things I’d like to think I’ve gotten better about, when I was a young coach, and I’m still a young coach, you’re so worried about being liked. Oftentimes when you have those difficult conversations, you try to be liked and respected at the same time, and then people are like, ‘What the heck did you really just say?’”
“There’s no good way to deliver tough information other than with some empathy, but being direct and open and honest.”
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A Monday morning question for you:
I recently asked a friend if he wanted to hit a certain business milestone and he said, "That depends. What does it cost me?"
Writing down your goals is easy. Everybody wants the glamorous result. What really matters is whether you want the costs associated with it: the money, the time, the tradeoffs.
Don't merely ask yourself what do I want to achieve, but also what am I willing to pay?
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Eli Manning says leaders should respond differently to physical and mental mistakes
“It always depends if it’s a physical mistake or a mental mistake.”
“Physical mistakes didn’t bother me. A receiver drops a pass… I’m not going to rip into him. I know he’s trying to catch the pass.”
“If I miss you when you’re open… And I throw a bad pass… I don’t want you putting your hands up. It's like, I’m going to help you out. You help me.”
“But if they run the wrong route. They don’t get a check. They screw up in practice. That’s where you get on them.”
“That’s what loses games. Not if you drop a pass. We can overcome that. Not being focused. Not going through your playbook. Not studying. Not being in the moment. That's what's going to lose us games... So those are the ones I used to be a little more bothered by.”
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Most don't tell you this about becoming a head coach.
The higher you go, the fewer problems you can solve directly.
Your influence and impact is still present and felt, but it often becomes indirect and delayed.
Your success now depends on others executing your thinking, your standards, and your vision for the team.
For most coaches, technical expertise and tactical mastery may help you ascend the coaching ranks.
But it's your leadership skills that allow you to sustain success and help others succeed alongside you.