5 Teachable Moments With Coach Meyer

We had another great opportunity to spend a couple of days with Coach Meyer on his trip to Orlando.
It's always fun as he comes to Orlando and stays at our house.  Coach Starkey blogged earlier about his message to our team.

I wanted to share a few teaching points that he made throughout the day.  They were "teachable moments." Below are 5 of the first teaching points...I want to blog over the next few days about these "teachable moments."

TP 1--"The teacher appears when the pupil is ready".
This applied to all of us--team and staff.  Coach Starkey and I were loaded with notepads and hard sheets at lunch and I made sure I kept my notepad close as we sat in our living room and he played with my 18 month old and 8 year old.

TP 2--"Adapt vs Adopt"
One of Coach's greatest gifts is his ability to  take all the things he sees, reads, hears, etc--Simplify them--repackage them and make them his own.  Then he has the gift to apply to multiple situations.  Whether it's talking about the St. Louis Cardinals, to Doug Moe and Snow Valley camps, there are so many stories and applications to adopt and apply.

TP 3--"The Innocence of a child"
As he played catch with my two boys in the living room he talked about how he marveled at the innocence and attitudes of children.  That is the spirit and quality we should strive for in our own lives. Which lead to the 4th teaching point.

TP 4--"As parents and coaches, our examples aren't the main things in influence, it's the only thing."

TP 5--"It's all about relationships"
We left the house and went to the UCF vs Tulane Men's basketball game.  It was fun to catch up with our good friends from Tulane (Head Coach Ed Conroy and Assistant Doug Novak) before the game.  After the game the stories, ideas and thoughts carried on to my house.  Coach Meyer, Ed, Doug and myself laughed and told Academy, Camp and other stories until after midnight.  Here are two coaches that just played a game, a coach who has a 5:00am flight to Los Angeles together laugh late into the night. That's the magic of Coach Meyer.  We all talk about the number of nights spent at his house during camps and the summers of Academies.