It’s horrible when your “spiritual advisor” is more concerned about preventing scandal than doing the right thing
Insert commentary on “Hate the sin, not the sinner” here, and how that doesnt invalidate “the message”
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I am thinking about “efficiency” in time(t) as Gain/TrueRange(sum)
the TrueRange = sum of distance travelled on the way to getting the gain
think of a perfect ramp from groundlevel to mountaintop
think of rolling hills from groundlevel to mountaintop
think of a series of identically high mountains from ground level to mountaintop
think of 5 mountain twice as high as the mountain you end up on
how hard did you have to work to get to the final mountain top?
that’s efficiency
the load you are carrying along the way = (your fears x your greed x your hope)
the load each trade is carrying = sumproduct of all your emotions
the more emotions you are carrying, the harder each trade is “to lift”
without your emotions, the trade is simply the ruleset at work
when you add your emotions each trade is working harder because of the extra load you have introduced
Reflective journaling is the process of deliberately recording your thoughts and feelings and then analyzing them in a process called double loop learning.
With reflective learning, we examine our feelings and responses and then we look at how we act upon this newfound knowledge improving our self awareness and self-consciousness. Reflective journaling, them helps us to develop at to different levels simultaneously.
this growth and self awareness of self consciousness is important to the trader, because the individual psychology of the trader is such an important component of almost every kind of trading system. A shorter term your trading system operates in, the more important your psychology becomes. Reflective learning, therefore is an important component of building your traders toolkit.
Reflective journaling is a powerful technique for improving your reflective learning.
Here are six tangible benefits you can expect to achieve:
Good trading!
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Transparency was one of the stated values of our most recent senior leader in the college, and as I look back at his two-year career here, as he prepares to depart, I can see that he really lived that value area it made it very easy to work with them on any directed project, because I didn’t have to worry about is hidden agendas or behind the scenes politicking.
What he said is what he meant and because it was always focused on the good of the college students, it was easy to get on board with his ideas. He was a guy who took advice carefully and sought the opinions of others before he made his decisions. He made sure to share the reasoning and processes behind his decision-making with those of us in the college, so that even if he decided against our recommendation, we felt like we had a fair shake. Research shows that that’s an important part of keeping your people satisfied.
How can we work on transparency in our own lives?
There are several dimensions that matter it seems to me: self-knowledge, purpose and courage.
We need self-knowledge to make sure that what we think were broadcasting is what’s really inside of us. We can’t be consistent in our external actions unless we really know what’s going on inside ourselves.
Purpose matters because we want to make sure that our integrated in turn the external actions are aligned with something that matters to us, such as our mission or are proposed Legacy.
Courage is involved in transparency because you have to take risks by exposing your inner workings and your purpose to the external world. Not everyone’s going to agree with your support you, there will be those who cast stones and belittle your efforts. Being transparent means exposing your true self to these slings and arrows. If you are being sneaky about your purpose and your goals, the critique of others wouldn’t be as personal because you could always tell yourself that it’s critique of the shadow face that you present to the world. Transparency puts your innermost self at risk to those who would criticize.
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It’s my opinion that your halftime speech should be the same each game, regardless of the score. And I say that because I think you should be focusing on the things that really matter and that is: are the players executing the game plan that we have agreed upon and are they putting in their best efforts as players and members of our team?
So I believe that your halftime speech should be focusing on those elements and not on the score. The score is the outcome of all the little things that you should be focusing on such as effort, technique and game plan. If you take care of those things, the score will be what it should be at the end of the game more often than not.
If you’re focusing on the score then you’re communicating that winning is what is most important and not the quality of their play and their attention to detail.
I believe therefore that your speech at halftime should be in the form of questions. You should be asking your players to evaluate their performance, to identify what’s working and what’s not working, to focus on a few things that we want to do better in the second half and to suggest ways that we can reinforce our strengths and improve our weaknesses.
I like to ask my players to grade themselves in the areas of effort, having fun, supporting the team, respecting the other team and reminding them how much we love this game.
Inevitably, players are going to know the score and it’s going to affect them because they’re under a lot of pressure from family and friends in school to focus on the scoreboard. It’s a central part of our culture in many ways.
What we can do is athletic coaches them is help them place the score into context here to improve on the score means we have to improve the way we play fundamentally and his team and those are the things we should focus on. Our morale will improve when our play improves and so that should be the focus of our speech and our play in the second half.
Remember that by making it a player’s responsibility to identify what must be done then we have taught them to carry their own burden and we’ve made them stronger people and better teammates.
Isn’t that what we want from our sports programs anyway?
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Kids end up playing sports for a whole host of reasons. It’s not always the case, in fact it’s rarely the case, that a desire to succeed is the number one reason for their playing. it’s much more likely that they are enrolled in sports on behalf of their parents, or because their friends are doing it, or because they are curious, or they need something for fitness. The explicit desire to succeed is rarely the primary reason for joining.
Now that you have them on the team, though it’s important for you to set the tone about how to incorporate success into our vision for the team. It’s important that kids learn how to compete in a healthy manner and appreciate the importance of setting goals that can include winning the game.
I think it’s far more important though, it is important that the coach and parents decide explicitly, before the season even starts, on the definitions of success for the individuals and for the team. The coach needs to express his or her philosophy of success and have buy-in from the parents so that we speak to the young student athletes with a consistent and clear message.
For example, I use these five coaching points to define success for our kids: play hard, have fun, support the team, love the game and respect the other team and ref.
These are reinforced at every practice and every game. These are the measures by which we will judge our own success. I ask the girls to evaluate themselves before, during and after each game in order to emphasize what it takes to be a winner of our team.
It’s common in young teens to experience crisis of confidence. By having these simple and repetitive touchstones, we can help them focus on the things that really matter and thereby learn what the game has to teach us about life.
By making our expectations and standards clear, and creating a bridge from the field of athletics to the field of life, we are helping our young student athletes develop the skills you will need to define their own success in the future.
By having them grade themselves at each and every game, they get in the habit of comparing themselves against their goals which will help them achieve their goals in the future.
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There is a tendency in American youth soccer to emphasize winning and losing at all costs and at the earliest ages. This tendency should be combated in order to develop players who have the emotional reselling is to try things out and who have an innate love of the game.
The only way to develop players with these qualities is to emphasize the enjoyable aspects of play and innovation in practice. By structuring your practices to ensure that each player gets to touch the ball 1000 times with their feet, over time you will develop players who are confident and relaxed with the ball and are willing to try new things. This will lead to a love of the game and excellence on the soccer field.
Although most youth soccer practices last between 60 and 90 minutes, there still is plenty of time to get 1000 touches of the ball in every practice by ensuring that everything you do features contact with the ball in some way. You should never have your players running for fitness without a ball.
Your warm-ups should include many hundreds of touches with both feet. Her passing drills in receiving the ball drills allow them to quickly accumulate their touches.
Small sided games and high intensity short duration passing drills allow you to get your touches in early in the practice while still leaving time for scrimmaging at the end of the session.
It’s extremely important that our players are not intimidated by the sight of the ball coming to them. We want them to have a positive attitude towards possession of the ball. We want them to seek out the ball and to fight for it and we can only get there if they have confidence in themselves that they know what to do with it once they have the ball.
By structuring your practices to feature 1000 touches a day, over time you will develop that love of ball possession that is the hallmark of the truly exceptional player.
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This is a request for help to me that came from a close, personal friend of mine, Gaspard D’alexis, that I feel compelled to share with you.
Gaspard is the coach of the Omega Soccer Club here in Kansas City, and he is a pure and gentle soul, who has answered the call for help from his homeland of Haiti to help them rebuild their lives. Our teams have shared a partnership over the last few years and I ‘ve gotten to know him well.
Latest news http://www.kansascity.com/2010/04/20/1890727/kansas-city-coach-picked-to-restore.html
The soccer community in Kansas City is mobilizing to help him, but I thought I would do more by sharing his story with you. My daughter plays on his team and I am helping his teams while he is in Haiti. Your thoughts and prayers are welcome; if you can do more, I can testify to the need and the integrity that touches everything Gaspard does.
here is a moving ESPN documentary story of the Haitian women’s nation team that says it far better than my words can: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=100427/Haitisoccer
Hello Friends,You are receiving this email because you are among the special people I have had the privilege to work with, directly or indirectly, either in the past or in the present time. You might not know, but last month I was appointed Head Coach of Haiti ’s National Women’s Soccer Team by the Haitian Soccer Federation. I am filling one of many voids created by the terrible earthquake that ravaged Haiti . The Head Coach, a friend of all Haitians, was one of the federation members who perished during the earthquake.
There are no words I can use to describe the current situation in Haiti and there are no words I can use to describe the way I feel about it. However, if I could have given my life in exchange for Haiti ’s misfortune, I would have done so without hesitation. Since the tradeoff did not happen and God put me on a different path, I promise to do my very best in what lays in front of me as the head coach and as a fellow Haitian and that is to help the Haitian people. It will take time, but with hard work, effort, and help “a lot of it” there is hope for a better tomorrow for Haiti .
My job description is not only to coach the women’s senior national team, but also to build the women’s soccer program in Haiti . I am doing so with very little money and few resources. One can ask why the importance is on the Haitian Soccer Team when the country needs everything. The response is that soccer is a passion for the Haitian people and it brings unity among them. It reinforces hard work and common goals that give hope of improvement for all Haitian people.
“Walking together united in memory of you
We want to play regardless the circumstance
We may not have a field left to practice
We may now be living on the grass of our stadium
We may not have the proper equipment
We may, for now, only eat to survive
We know we are the lucky ones
We want to play because we are thankful for what we have
We know that surviving is our friend for a reason
We know that you are looking upon us
We want to make you proud of our effort
We want to make you smile wherever you are
We want to give you reasons to hope
We know hope is all we’ve got for now.
We know that hope is what we can afford…”I’m trying to raise enough money to create a monthly allowance of $50.00 for each player on the national programs. We have currently sixty girls in three different age groups. The yearly budget stands at $36,000 and would cover all players for a year. The allowance will impact directly and positively sixty families. For most of the Haitian players it would be their only income to buy the bare minimum like water, soap and rice among others. Please, go to our web site at:www.haitiwomenssoccer.com if you would like to help me help Haiti . And then, you should please send to me an email to let me know the level of your help.
Thank you very much,
Gaspard Dalexis
Haiti National Women Soccer Team: 9807, Woodland Lane , Kansas City , MO 64131 913-484-1595
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