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The following is a recent entry to Dan Spainhour's substack, Game Changing: Changing The Way You Look at Things So The Things You Look at Will Change I can’t even remember where I first heard it, but it is something that stuck to me like glue and has been with me ever since. “Don’t take it out on the coach!” So simple yet so profound. This simple saying has been my motto for life since my early days of coaching. You see, at the end of the day you will exit this world the same way you came in it—by yourself. Therefore, it is so important to take care of yourself and not allow others to live inside your head. When I first started coaching, I wanted to control everyone and everything. Along about my third year as a head coach, one of my players was arrested for stealing a car. I was immediately placed in a no-win situation. The player was a promising college prospect. These were the days before so much emphasis was placed on summer travel teams and how a prospect performed during thei...

  Another Season In Words: A Coach's Guide to Motivation from the Preseason to the Postseason Updated version of Dan Spainhour's best-selling A Season In Words ​ ​​​About The Book  Easily find quotes that cover an exact moment of your season—whether it’s during practice, preparing for the big game or building confidence after a loss. Brilliantly organized into 14 files according to your season—not by generic topics. Dan Spainhour shares his quotes from over 40 years of coaching experience.  The book is separated in files representing Spainhour's organization system used to collect quotes and motivational sayings throughout his career. You will find more than 2000 opinions, insights, and wits of wisdom to motivate your team and help you stay competitive. It will be your go-to resource season after season!   The Files (Chapters):    The Preseason/Individual Improvement The Beginning & Practice Quotes  Team Formation Before A Game After A Win After A ...

Dan Spainhour on his weekly journal: "I see it all the time–people settle into a routine, or a career and they tell themselves “Hey this isn’t so bad,” and the years keep slipping away. Then, usually, and hopefully, before it’s too late, they become full of regret for the things they didn’t do, the places they didn’t go, or the things they never had.  We are born with a burning desire to evolve and grow, to open up, to expand  When I “retired” from coaching after 38 years I tried to make it clear that I wasn’t retiring; instead, I, like life itself, was evolving. The subtitle for this Game Changing journal is: Change The Way You Look At Things And The Things You Look Will Change. I don’t know who first said that, but I came across it many years ago while reading a book by Wayne Dyer. It is one of my favorite quotes and quickly became sort of a life motto for me. It is my belief that so much of the pain and struggle people feel is because they are looking at things the wrong wa...

  Good luck to long-time Journal subscriber Kelvin Sampson and his family in the 2023 NCAA tournament. The Coaching and Leadership Journal extends best wishes to all our basketball subscribers who begin post season play this week. We especially want to send a huge shout out to Kelvin Sampson and his Houston Cougars for earning a number one seed in the NCAA tournament! Coach Sampson has been a subscriber for many years now and like so many great leaders understands that learning never stops.  I absolutely love the journal. I always find one thing in it to share with my coaches and players. It is a win for me. Thank you for all you do for coaches and leadership.--Kelvin Sampson We are proud and honored to have Coach Sampson on our team of subscribers! It is no coincidence that we have some of the most successful leaders reading our journal each month.  Coach Sampson, like our other subscribers, realize that for less than most people's monthly cable bill they receive a year'...

  Another Season In Words: A Coach's Guide to Motivation from the Preseason to the Postseason Updated version of Dan Spainhour's best-selling A Season In Words ​Dan Spainhour on his new edition: Like most coaches I really like quotes. I think they can be a powerful motivational tool for players. I published A Season In Words in 2004. The book was my attempt to take you through your season and provide you with motivational quotes for situations as they arise. There are hundreds of thousands of quote books, and many are targeted to coaches. However, they were not organized as the season is organized. The original Season in Words became a big hit with coaches. In 2020, I “evolved” from coaching and began to focus more on my company which now includes our monthly Coaching and Leadership Journal. In a conversation with my coaching friend Stan Jones, Associate Head Coach for Florida State Basketball, he asked me what I’ve been up to since I retired from coaching. I told him a few of ...

  (Jerome) Tang talk Here are some of the things that our team of subscribers will be learning about this month: Tang (Jerome) talk Leadership lessons from Saint Patrick (Ed) Cooley’s cool talk about leadership Essentials to leading different generations Their thoughts—Sonny Dykes, TCU football Coaching corner--Brooke Wyckoff, Florida State Basketball Lessons in life from Michael J. Fox Our armor can keep us from daring leadership Q & A with John Hayes—Wake Forest Cross Country Their words—Jay Bilas Effective eye contact Adult peer pressure Signs your life needs to evolve And More! ​​​​Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers! The purpose of the Journal is to provide ideas and insights to people who are passionate about leading and to provide it in a quick and easy-to-read format. The Coaching & Leadership Journal now serves leaders from all fields. Our journal publishes article summaries that pertain to both leadership theory and insights from top le...

Jay Bilas on impactful versus ineffective coaches Let us be your trusted source and leadership curator every month! In this age of millions of daily updates and billions of web pages, how do busy leaders allocate their scarce resources of time to read inspiring and educational leadership material? Our journal is a monthly source of leadership ideas and techniques compiled and written specifically for leaders. Dan Spainhour and his team of experts dive through mountains of information and distill it down to its most relevant, essential parts. Thirty-eight years of experience allow us to bring our expertise to the subject matter.  Here is some of what top leaders in athletics and education are reading about this month: Leaders can learn from Count Dracula?  Lessons learned from playing for Mike Leach The wisdom of Mike Leach Messi and Mbappe’s world cup performance Leadership profile—Lionel Scaloni, Argentina Soccer Tips for agreeable disagreements How common is common sense?...