Top 20 Things You Must Do to Create an Elite Mindset for Coaching

February 11, 2024

These are the top 20 things you must do to create an elite mindset for coaching, and these are in no particular order.

1. Celebrate daily victories of progress after practice.

2. Be the rock of stability and consistency in your players’, coaches’, and stakeholders’ lives.

3. Be so convincing that people think that your idea is their idea.

4. Urgency leads to accuracy, accuracy leads to urgency, and by inverting these two principles— you gain situational mindfulness.

5. The best leaders have the best followers.

6. Before you can learn how to win, you have to learn how not to lose.

7. Ultimately, the 80/20 rule (20% of what you do gives you 80% of your results) is about reducing priorities to the point of the highest priority – – the one thing. Go all in on the one thing.

8. Always be respectful and early.

9. 45% of offensive football is first down.

10. Elite athletes are lean, don’t get tired, and play until they die.

11. Reduce the number of formations and plays to the point where you can execute them against everything.

12. It takes 66 days to develop a habit.

13. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important and limit tasks to the important to shorten work time.

14. Speed and quantity trump quality when achieving 20 hours of deliberate practice, which gets you to 90% of your potential on that task.

15. With what you do—- Be brief – be excellent – be gone.

16. Teach to the fastest learner, and let everybody catch up.

17. Get Evidence – find relevance – see the consequence – take action.

18. In order to get what you want, you gotta be willing to risk losing what you want.

19. If something worked 50+ years ago, go all in on it because this “something” survived at least 3 generations.

20. Teach – rebuke – correct – train and surrender the outcome to God.