That’s a lot better than saying rant.
I’m not in a place where I have terribly much to rant about. The truth is the obstacles, situations, and challenges in my life are all extremely manageable so long as I step up to the task and manage it. This even extends to my peculiar and seemingly unmanageable football problem. That problem is having a very young and small 10-12 yr old team when the people we are going up against are older, faster, more physically developed, and on occasion, better coached.
I feel like Rex Ryan.
Still, even that is manageable. A friend reminded me that coaching shouldn’t be the thing that brings me down. In another unrelated conversation we waxed philosophically about focusing on the experience instead of the outcome. Everything is related though, isn’t it? The day after we lost our first regular season game (2nd game overall) all my attention was on devising a scheme to win. At some point this morning I connected with that past conversation and decided that I wasn’t going to worry about winning games anymore. I was going to focus on the experience—on going into practice and into games with the mindset of creating situations that teach my players how to be better, mentally tougher, and more resistant to tidal nature of self confidence.
Now I gotta figure out how to do that in my own daily life. The best teachers are the ones who translate their own life experience in a way that vibes and jives with what the students understand. I’ve ebbed and flowed in my ability to do that, leaving me with a sense of understanding of how to get better (and thus happier) as a teacher of all. Part of it is about learning, part about writing, and part about taking that conversational advice: focusing on the experience of daily life.