Coaching Reflections: Be the Light

Sports teams, business teams, nations. This classic quote resonates brighter today than ever.

From an Anonymous Coach.

"I have come to the frightening conclusion, I am the decisive element on the field.

It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather.

I possess tremendous power to make an athletes life miserable or joyful.

I can be the tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.

I can humilate or humor, hurt or heal.

In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis can be escalated or de-escalated, and an athlete humanized or de-humanized".