Why are New Year’s Resolutions so darn hard to keep?

It’s easy to make a laundry list of New Year’s Resolutions and many of us optimistically make the same ones every year.   So why does all that good intention and enthusiasm peter out and what can we do to keep it going? As professional coaches, we’re all about helping people to make significant change in their lives and to reach achievable goals so we’ve seen a…

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Coaching for Confidence: Whose journey is it?

We’ve all seen the caricature of the out-of-control parent at their child’s hockey, soccer or baseball game, yelling instructions and criticism, hurling invective at the ref and generally making the entire experience unpleasant for everyone around them.   If the role of parents and coaches is to unleash potential and remove interference for their child to deliver their best performance, what possesses them to get (pardon the…

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Coaching for Confidence: How should we perceive Failure?

Whoever said failure was not an option was clearly not taking into account how often it happens and how important a part failure plays along the road to success. Take for example, our tale of two figure-skating siblings, both lacing up skates almost as soon as they could walk.  Candace was a natural, twirling and leaping gracefully around the ice and winning almost every time she…

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Coaching for Confidence

As we join people around the world cheering on the 2018 Winter Olympic athletes, we can’t help but admire the dedication and perseverance demonstrated by both competitors and their support teams.  While the goalposts may look different, athletic and personal coaching are fundamentally about building confidence, one of the key factors in achieving success. Coincidentally, Coach Mary Ann Tucker has been invited to speak about that…

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