How To Go All-In
One issue that coaches, teachers, parents and any person in a leadership asks consistently is: 'How do I get ___________ to give me their full effort?" - How do I get my athletes to go hard everyday? - How do I get my students to work as hard as they can? - How do I get my kids to give their full effort? - How do I get my athletes to play with grit, heart, and toughness? Becky Burleigh is the women's soccer coach at University of Florida. She recognized that her teams sometime create excuses for not going all-in. One of the excuses is that if they don't go all-in and fail, they are able to justify it by saying that they didn't give it their all or that they didn't care. Intentness to succeed can lead to anxiety, and the excuses of not caring or not trying their hardest can be a coping mechanism. She said that we need to identify and define what it looks like to go 'all in,' all of the time. Instead of telling our athletes to be 'all in...