A Coach's Diary

One of the positives about Social Media is that we can see what people like us are doing around the world.  We can see the skills and talents of athletes our age everywhere, so we can compare ourselves to the best, we can measure ourselves against others, and we can see what we do well and see where we can improve. There are cool things being done and shared everywhere on Social Media.  Use that as inspiration to go work on your game. The downfall of Social Media is that we don't see the grind behind each post.  We only see the one, perfect, finished post, but we don't see the many mistakes before and after that post was shared. We have to make sure that we understand that a lot of work goes into being great at something.  A lot of work goes into that one post, or that one skill, or that one perfect shot.  It really is a process of messing up over and over again, learning from your mistakes, grit, resilience, and perseverance. One of the...