Coaches, here's how to turn a head case athlete into a powerhouse performer. Part 1 Coaches, you've only got so much time to teach the fundamentals, implement the drills the workouts, to guide the team into leadership into a cohesive unit and to make sure everyone, including the parents, are where they're supposed to be at a vent time, warmed up ready to compete. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just be a coach like that? Well, I've got news for you if you already know this. If you've done this kind of work coaching for any amount of time, you know that you also have to wear the hats of mentor and sports like colleges even for your athletes, right? Now, let me give you a couple shortcuts on how to get the biggest returns, performance, but the least amount of effort on your part through the mental game. Because let's face it, we are all in a big time crunch out there and it's to your winning advantage when you can turn around an athlete from mentally weak to laser focused in minutes and I've got those tools for you. Start by really using your authority power to boost their ego. Now everyone has an ego and everyone loves getting that boost. But you've got to always keep in mind that problems at home transfer over to the sports. And forgetting this is probably the biggest reason for coaches not getting everything out of an athlete that they really are capable of. You see, sports has this cultural history starting way back like in the days of Vince Lamberti when he said things like to achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price. Now that's great for professional athletes making Zoonies dollars. Not the lower level athletes, they've got issues. And when an athlete just isn't performing too many coaches just assume that the athlete isn't willing to pay the price. And coaches are willing to just let them wash right out of the system. Stop throwing away your talent. It's right there. See, kids and adults by the way, kids these days, so much more pressure and complex problems than we did. And the quickest way for you to help them bypass their problems and put their energy fully into their sport is to help them transcend their home problems. Now let me explain. You see, adults are constantly telling me that they had a coach in their lives that influenced them more than their parents. And most young athletes, they look at their coaches like Greek gods. You have the power to influence them very effectively and very powerful. You can do more than proven athletes with a two minute conversation than weeks of drills if it goes something like this. I'm your coach. Jones, I can tell something's going on with you. How can I support you? Maybe the athlete, well coach, I've got a lot on my mind. And I know I haven't done as well as I like. There's just a lot of stuff going on in my personal life. Coach, listen Jones, I hear you. Let me tell you something. Whatever your problems are, they can be overcome. All you have to do is believe that with help, you can handle anything that comes your way. And I'm going to get you started on that right now. I'm here to help and I believe in you. I think you have the potential to be one of the best here. And I know that if you find the strength to succeed here in your sport, then you'll know that you have the ability to overcome anything else. I know you have it in you. I've seen you do some amazing things. Name the specifics. I really believe in your abilities. I believe in you, Jones. See what you want to do is make your athlete feel your words. And athlete, here she will reward you with performances like you won't believe. Now if you feel the athlete needs more help and sorting out their personal issues, and coach, you got a lot of options here for that. You can tell them I will find someone who's really skilled at those issues to help you. Or let's schedule a time later when I can give you some more help with that. And Jones, for now, put the personal stuff aside. We will deal with it later. Go out there and just show me why I believe in you. For some strange reason, coaches rarely do this kind of thing. And it's so effective. Let's do this. I'm Craig, Sigil, your middle top trainer. Look for part two of Headcase.