Author: coachmika
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Any Job Worth Doing…
There truly are no shortcuts to success. I was fortunate to grow up with parents who understood that and instilled that in me from a young age. “Any job worth doing is worth doing right” was one of my dad’s favorite sayings. As a kid who was sent back to redo a chore, it wasn’t…
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Make the Vision Real
“Most people chasing their dreams don’t see the bigger picture, they just see the silhouette. Make the vision real!”~Joel Brown⠀-⠀One of the hardest tasks for a leader is getting people to look beyond the work, sacrifice, and discipline of any given day to see the bigger vision. With a team, this means pushing a player…
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Lead By Example
“One of the most important actions, things a leader can do, is to lead by example. If you want everyone else to be passionate, committed, dedicated, and motivated, you go first!” ~Marshall Goldsmith⠀-⠀From all of my years of coaching, this photo is one of my favorites. Before every game our team would go down the…
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Family First
I know I’m a workaholic, and I come by it honestly. I grew up on a dairy farm where cows don’t know what a vacation means. More vacations or nights out to dinner than I can count were interrupted by work needing to be done when I was growing up. However, even through all of…
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Just Take Action
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” ~Jack Welch⠀-⠀This picture represents so much for me. This is my youngest with the youngest of one of the first players I coached (I was only a couple years out of college). It…
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Leadership Can Be Lonely
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” ~Mother Teresa⠀-⠀Leadership can be a lonely journey at times, as you often have to be the first one to step out or the one who has to make the hard decisions. Over the years, I have…
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Excellence is in the Details and the Mundane
The difference between a good team and a championship team is often not talent or even skill. It is often the amount of times they are willing to do the boring, mundane details in order to create habits that allow them to win the long rallies and perform under pressure. Championships aren’t won in one…
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The Joy of Investing in Others Always Outweighs the Risk
Coaching is one of those jobs that has really high highs and really low lows. If you are relationship driven like I am, the lows when one of your players refuses to buy in or seemingly intentionally does something hurtful are way worse than any low of losing a game.–In these moments, it is easy…
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Why I Coach
A few years ago, I was asked to participate in a Dear World event on my campus. As I contemplated how I should tell my story in this picture format, I decided on combining my passion for volleyball with what I feel is a calling on my life, to serve others through servant leadership…
