A Season In Words takes you through your season and provides you with motivational quotes for situations as they arise. This guide puts motivational thoughts suitable for what's happening at a particular moment of your season at your fingertips. Quotes are organized into files according to your season not by generalized topics. Each file is filled with quotations that motivate and inspire your team to reach its true potential. There are more than 1600 opinions, insights, and wits of wisdom to help guide your team through the season. The book's purpose is to help prepare you for any situation that may arise. We all have seen numerous publications filled with motivational and inspiring quotes. A Season in Words separates itself from the others with the number and depth of its quotes and with the highly organized 14 situations that the manual focuses on. A Season in Words is a practical tool that could aid any coach as he communicates with his team.
Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." Albert Einstein Coach Dan Spainhour explains how affirmations can benefit coaches of every sport at every level. "When I used to hear all the talk about affirmations I had a tendency to think of some New Age feel good stuff that had little to do with coaching. However, the more I investigated the process of affirmations I came to realize maybe it was only the term affirmations that caused me not to take the process seriously. I've always believed in the importance of self-talk and the effects it has on performance. Like most coaches, I posted daily quotes in our locker room for the team to read and recite back during practice. I know motivation is different things for different people and athletes need inspiration that is designed specifically for them. I also believed that as Peter Davies says, "Motivation is like food for the brain, you cannot get enough in one setting." So I started to give my players specific individual statements that I asked them to say to themselves over and over. I would give them new statements at different times throughout the year based upon areas that I wanted to see them improve. I immediately saw results. My players seem more confident and our performance has improved since I instituted this process. And all coaches know the relationship of mental to physical performance. As Bob Knight says, 'Mental is to physical as four is to one.'" About the Author Dan Spainhour has more than 27 years of high school and college coaching experience. He has received numerous awards during his coaching career, including three state championships and 15 coach of the year honors. His teams have collected more than 450 victories. He is the author of several book including: Coach Yourself: A Motivational Guide for Coaches and Leaders and A Season in Words: A Coach's Guide to Motivation from the Preseason to the Postseason.
Includes forms, handouts, fundamentals, schedules--everything you need to conduct a winning camp. The purpose of this manual is to provide you with a guide for conducting your own camp. If you are currently running a camp this guide can give you some ideas that may help you improve upon it. If you are considering starting a camp then this guide will take you step-by-step through the process. It is designed to show you how we started and how we conduct East Coast Basketball Camps. You will find everything you need to run a successful camp year after year. Coach Dan Spainhour
As coaches and leaders it is easy to focus so much attention on others that we can lose sight of ourselves. Burnout, fatigue, and health issues are all too common occurrences. Coaching can be a tremendous amount of stress, and sometimes if you're not in control of it problems arise. Long hours, poor eating habits, loss of family time are just a few examples that can cause you to become out of balance. This book is about maintaining a healthy balance. I have had the opportunity to observe successful coaches and some not so successful. I know coaches who love their job and some who hate what they do. I've worked with people who were consumed so much that they never took a vacation and others who seemed to be on permanent vacation. Coaches who are in balance and feel good do a better job. The purpose of this collection is to provide you with an instrument to help you maintain proper balance and motivation.
Designed specifically for parents, this guide teaches you strategies that give your child the best opportunity to become a college athlete. This easy-to-read guidebook contains valuable recruiting tips, detailed appendixes, sample letters and forms, and a Q & A section that can be used by athletes in all sports. Learn the secrets of recruiting. Written by Dan Spainhour who has more than 25 years of college and high school coaching experience. Spainhour recently returned to high school coaching after serving as the director of basketball operations for Florida State University. At Florida State, Spainhour was involved in all phases of the men's basketball office. He handled on-campus recruiting, recruiting mailings, fiscal matters, team travel, and academic development. As an athletic director as well as baseball and basketball coach, he has helped students earn numerous scholarships. His experience at both the high school and college level convinced him there was tremendous need for this guide.
As coaches and leaders it is easy to focus so much attention on others that we can lose sight of ourselves. Burnout, fatigue, and health issues are all too common occurrences. Coaching can be a tremendous amount of stress, and sometimes if you're not in control of it problems arise. Long hours, poor eating habits, loss of family time are just a few examples that can cause you to become out of balance. This book is about maintaining a healthy balance. I have had the opportunity to observe successful coaches and some not so successful. I know coaches who love their job and some who hate what they do. I've worked with people who were consumed so much that they never took a vacation and others who seemed to be on permanent vacation. Coaches who are in balance and feel good do a better job. The purpose of this collection is to provide you with an instrument to help you maintain proper balance and motivation.
Designed specifically for parents, this guide teaches you strategies that give your child the best opportunity to become a college athlete. This easy-to-read guidebook contains valuable recruiting tips, detailed appendixes, sample letters and forms, and a Q & A section that can be used by athletes in all sports. Learn the secrets of recruiting. Written by Dan Spainhour who has more than 25 years of college and high school coaching experience. Spainhour recently returned to high school coaching after serving as the director of basketball operations for Florida State University. At Florida State, Spainhour was involved in all phases of the men's basketball office. He handled on-campus recruiting, recruiting mailings, fiscal matters, team travel, and academic development. As an athletic director as well as baseball and basketball coach, he has helped students earn numerous scholarships. His experience at both the high school and college level convinced him there was tremendous need for this guide.
A Season In Words takes you through your season and provides you with motivational quotes for situations as they arise. This guide puts motivational thoughts suitable for what's happening at a particular moment of your season at your fingertips. Quotes are organized into files according to your season not by generalized topics. Each file is filled with quotations that motivate and inspire your team to reach its true potential. There are more than 1600 opinions, insights, and wits of wisdom to help guide your team through the season. The book's purpose is to help prepare you for any situation that may arise. We all have seen numerous publications filled with motivational and inspiring quotes. A Season in Words separates itself from the others with the number and depth of its quotes and with the highly organized 14 situations that the manual focuses on. A Season in Words is a practical tool that could aid any coach as he communicates with his team.
Includes forms, handouts, fundamentals, schedules--everything you need to conduct a winning camp. The purpose of this manual is to provide you with a guide for conducting your own camp. If you are currently running a camp this guide can give you some ideas that may help you improve upon it. If you are considering starting a camp then this guide will take you step-by-step through the process. It is designed to show you how we started and how we conduct East Coast Basketball Camps. You will find everything you need to run a successful camp year after year. Coach Dan Spainhour
Describes how to write applications using the Motif toolkit from the Open Software Foundation (OSF), going into detail on every Motif widget class, with useful examples to help programmers develop their own code. Tips on programming in general are also included. The authors assume competence with C and familiarity with fundamental X Window System concepts. Chapters are marked by uncut tabs for easy location. The manual is updated for Motif 1.2, but still usable for Motif 1.1. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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