I heard a coach say yesterday that coaches want performance skills, they don't necessarily want communication skills... my answer to that is it's going to be really hard to get the most out of your athletes if you aren't a good communicator! That's the reason I created a free 8 week mini-course on communication skills. Join the course at pazikperformancegroup.com/mastercommunication

If you're looking to stay sharp this season or just today in general, you might want to check it with your "Totalitarian Ego." Tony Greenwald wrote a paper called just that, "The Totalitarian Ego." Here's what they say in the book:

"What [Tony] proposes is that our typical self-views "correspond disturbingly to thought control and propaganda devies that are considered to be defining characteristics of a totalitarian political system." Specifically, Greenwald suggests that our personal histories - the autobiographical stories we tell ourselves about past performance and how we've gotten to where we are today - are replete with revision, fabrication, and an unrealistically egocentric perspective.... Here are but two examples: 1. We always think we're the center of attention.... tyrannical rulers aren't the only ones who think the world revolves around them. Most of us do - it's a consequence of spending much of our day engaged in internal conversation but lacking insight into the monologues everyone else is producing. 2. We think we're more powerful than we are. We regularly succumb to the illusion of control, overconfident in the role we play in outcomes around us.... regardless of the actual scoreboard, athletes looking for a reason to stay sharp can almost always find it through a quick totalitarian infusion of perceived underappreciation." - Sam Sommers