Find Your Own Voice

"Always seek to do your very best.

It does not matter what the rest of the world thinks, but it is of prime importance, however, what you think."

Sherri Coale, the women's basketball coach at the University of Oklahoma, has this quote hanging in her office.

She says that it is important to find your voice and to measure yourself by your own standard of excellence instead of waiting for the world to weigh in on whether or not you are measuring up to their standards.

Everyone has an opinion on everything:
- What we do
- Where we go
- How we look

Thoughts and opinions of others can get noisy, but we have to learn how to keep the rest of the rest of the world out of our own heads and shield yourself from their opinions.

It is part of our job as coaches and teachers to help our kids learn how to find their own voice, navigate through the ups and downs of life, and ultimately not need us as much as they get older and so that they can pass on those lessons to others.