Lately I have been scheduling every single minute of my day. Insane but very helpful in finding lost time. How do you all find the extra minutes you need to get stuff done? I find the hardest part is that I either have to steal them from myself, my wife or my kids. And that means that one of us is getting neglected to make progress in this community and the tools I am trying to build for parents. I appreciate everyone in here for being an early part of this. I promise you it is a slow build but it is for sure building… Share your time based hardships below if you want. I’d love to not feel like the only one who wishes he could add a few more hours to the clock every day. I also through a silly poll in this one.

I have been thinking a lot this week about the role that reflection plays in my main career as an educator and wondering how all of you are utilizing this tool in your day to day lives. Is it a daily, weekly or monthly practice for you? Do you do it at all? Do you do it too much and its slowing down your progress? Leave a note here and lets hear how reflection is working, or not working, for you...

Just checking in on this crew, saying thank you for being here and wondering how you are all spending your day. Leave a note below and also share your version of the BEST SUNDAY EVER!

Question for all of you to think on. What sort of environment has been created when athletes are constantly apologizing as come off the field for a substitution? In the past few years I have been noticing more and more that when I work with players for the first time and I sub them off the field, they are always apologizing to me, even though I am meeting them with a high five and a "great work out there!" type of comment. This has me thinking that fundamentally, as a system, something is wrong. My main job these days is not so much soccer coach, it is more hype man. I am wondering what all of you think about where this starts and why it seems to be permeating the entire space of youth sports. I would like to suggest that we need to strongly reconsider what we are saying to our athletes, students, kids, etc., if they are always feeling like they need to apologize for playing a game. What do we think about this one...?

What are your priorities right now…? There are lots of opinions on priorities…what I believe is that you can only really ever have 3. And, realistically they aren’t supposed to change. My three for a while have been Family, Coaching and Health…but every Saturday I like to swap out health in the diet sense for Ice Cream, because it just brings me so much enjoyment with almost no effort and adds to my overall mental health. you know, life is meant for living and what is living without a little coffee chip or mint Oreo ice cream. Let us know below what your three priorities are and how you feel about this rule of 3.