The Journey is More Important Than the Goal

Hi everyone! We're super excited to get started with everyone next week! Hope everyone is having a great start to the school year. 

Wanted to quickly touch on goal setting with our players. Quick background, I've coached every year since I've been 18 years old. My full time job revolves around having families be intentional with their time and their assets. Yes, we do goal setting. My job is literally to help kids and adults reach goals. Now the level of the goals and scope/perspective are going to be much much different. 

What we're trying to do is make our goals/tasks/habits/chores more tangible. If we see them, they exist. If we have an idea, it's just an idea.

-Have your sheets visible each morning, after school, and at night - create this habit first
-Gauge how realistic you're being? Am I putting too much on and not accomplishing what I want to? Am I not putting enough on to reach?
-Am I going through the motions or am I measuring and thinking?

We've started goal setting with a lot of you. Some of you have yet to go. Our mission is to drive our kids to build more confidence, be the best version of themselves and to think about others. Taking care of what you right down will drive this forward every week! 

We're trying to be a second voice of our parents. We're trying to make our kids own their chores, their tasks, and their dreams.

Yes, my kids are only 10 and 7. So this is the first time I'm being a parent at these ages. We're all navigating this together. With that being said, I have past players in their mid 30's I've watched grow and start families of their own. 

My point is this. I've done different approaches, seen different approaches of parents and kids. I've seen what works and what doesn't. I've seen young men succeed in their goals. I've seen kids settle and mature a little later in life and find themselves later with a lack of focus and direction.

While there is no "right way" of raising our kids and goal setting, I do know that being structured to create better habits now and better understanding of helping others and helping themselves gives our kids a better perspective heading to whatever next chapter they have. 

It's not about the goal, it's about the journey. We're going to be pressing our kids a bunch just to think about the why behind what they're doing. 

We're super excited to get on the field with your kids! We'll see you all soon!