Lipscomb Women's Basketball Thoughts

Friday, September 2, 2011

Why Leaders Should Keep Journals

Why leaders should keep journals?

1. Daily goal-setting

2. Work through confusion

3. Record gratitude.

4. Refocus on what matters.

Keys To Finishing In The Post

How many times have your teams gotten the ball inside and done everything but make the shot. Coach Don Meyer would always say, "The operation was a success, but the patient died."

We use the "Reduced Rim" in most of our Post Workouts. Some Observations:
1. Players tend to focus on the "reduced rim" instead of their target initially.
2. We want our players to get their eyes up early. (Sight the target)
3. Their eyes should be on the top near corner of the backboard.
4. We want the ball to hit on the way down.
5. When we do not use the reduced rim, we emphasize "clean" shots. (The ball doesn't touch the rim).

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Coach Don Meyer Leadership Tour

I want to make you aware of a special leadership seminar, next Wednesday, September 7. Coach Don Meyer will be in Winter Springs, FL for part of his national Leadership Tour.

The seminar is based on his “Million Dollar Roundtable Presentations” over the last year.
The seminar addresses two areas of Servant Leadership—
(1) Do I have what it takes to be a servant leader and
(2) Building a Team of Servant Leaders

Coach Meyer has a story to tell of how God worked through adversity. His story is one of courage and determination that will inspire you for years to come.

Over the last two years Coach Meyer has broken the record for number of wins, had a near fatal car accident, a leg amputated and battles an inoperable cancer. He received a 2009 ESPY (The Jimmy V Award) and was just honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Naismith Hall of Fame.

The event will be beneficial to all those in any leadership position. Coach Meyer is the winningest coach in NCAA basketball; he has been featured on ESPN recently and Buster Olney from ESPN has written a book about him that was released last November.

I had the opportunity to serve and work with Coach Meyer at Lipscomb University as both a student-assistant and later as a director of his basketball camps. Outside of my parents he is the most influential person in my life and my career.

I have included two links, so that you can have a chance to learn a little more about Coach Meyer.

I have a link from his ESPY speech and from Buster Olney’s book.

Please let me know if you have any questions, or if you plan to attend.

The cost is $50 and includes lunch. The event will run from 9-4.

Video link from Coach Meyer’s ESPY Award
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoOkHawZKa4

Link to Buster Olney’s book, “How Lucky You Can Be”
http://ballantine.atrandom.com/2010/09/01/read-how-lucky-you-can-be-the-story-of-coach-don-meyer/

Activiate Your Power To Choose

Who decides what direction your life will take? You do.

You and I possess the power to choose. Every day, we make many choices. Some of them seem small. But no choice is altogether small, for even on the most seemingly unimportant choice may ultimately determine the outcome of your life. Someone said that history swings on small hinges. In an almost identical way, human life develops according to small decisions. So we determine our future by our immense power of choice.