1. “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” 2. “If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it–then I can achieve it.”

  I always try to make a good first impression, but find it more important to make a great lasting impression.

Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s all small stuff.

Hockey, like Volleyball, is an incredibly action packed sport that does not have the popularity or recognition it deserves. As the American sports audience paradigm continues to shift away from the big 3 American sports of the past century and ...

A great article from Inc. magazine on Emotional Intelligence. I find it fascinating that, “Studies show that effective communication is 7% the words we say and 93% tone and body language.” Interesting for SEALs to communicate in this way, and ...

Yet again, what does a 4.0 really mean? As I mentioned before in Achieving vs Over Achieving: http://coachrey.com/blog/achieving-versus-over-achieving/ We used to be mentors and moral authorities. Now we just hand out A’s. Source: What’s the Point of a Professor? In the ...

Thanks to Eric Barker of Barking Up the Wrong Tree blog. His work has been featured in NY Times, WSJ, Time, and Wired Magazine. Sometimes you just want to quit. You know you shouldn’t but nothing seems better than crawling back into ...

Very cool toy / app for kids by Osmo that incorporates the iPad and the real world. I see kids learning in a fun, interactive environment. Can a next generation of this app somehow be applied to volleyball? It could be a great way ...

Sorry to all volleyball players and even coaches that love the TV show Gossip Girl. I know how disappointed you all will be to learn that I’m not a Gossip Girl junkie. I’m more of a Harvard Business Review junkie. Don’t ...

14 Volleyball Quotes for the New Year! Enjoy!

Wisdom from the Karch - the best volleyball player - ever

Where is this generation going and how to help.

Tim Elmore is a sports psychologist that has come up with a number of series for teams.

An excerpt from the Coaches Guide –Mental Training Manual, USOC Sport Psychology

Emotional Intelligence plays a crucial role in leadership.

Ever feel as if you are continually reminding your players on what they should be working on?

Failure is the stripping away of the inessential.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership By: Jeff Janssen, Janssen Sports Leadership Center As a tribute to the great leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., here are some of his words to reflect on regarding leadership.

For deliberate practice to work, the demands have to be serious and sustained.

A series of video testing the physical and mental skills of soccer great Christiano Renaldo.

In an individualized world, where ME seems to count most, blame is a topic that is often used, but rarely broached.

As players and coaches grow and develop over the seasons, they grow from a ME mentality into a WE mentality and hopefully progress to a THEY mentality.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

So why, if positive reinforcement is so great, does punishment seem to be more effective? To answer this we need to understand the statistical phenomenon called, “Regression to the Mean.”

"You must drive men, but you can lead women." By Kathy DeBoer