Work with what you have got

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership I’ve been chewing on a question. What values are most important to you as a coach? What would I say to a new group that… The post Work with what you have got appeared first on SimonHa...

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Mar 19, 2023
Point of failure

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership If you want to understand our attitude to risk head to a gym and wait for the questions. How much can you lift? What’s your… The post Point of failure appeared first on SimonHarlingBl...

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Mar 18, 2023
The signal we send

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership If getting along and getting ahead by playing by the rules is a virtue. It stands to reason that the most virtuous acts are those… The post The signal we send appeared first on SimonH...

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Mar 17, 2023
Don’t pass it on

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership Coaches and parents of kids engaged in physical activity. What’s the one emotion that you want to be responsible for passing on? It’s unlikely to… The post Don’t pass it on appeared f...

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Mar 16, 2023
What’s missing?

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership The temptation is to run a battery of tests, collect 360-degree feedback and create a balance sheet of what is going well and what needs… The post What’s missing? appeared first on Si...

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Mar 15, 2023
Enact

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership If coaching is an improvised act then we could argue that makes planning a questionable act.  Which makes it difficult to proceed with certainty when… The post Enact appeared first on...

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Mar 14, 2023
In the corner

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership As a coach, you can be in their corner, but you can’t fight for them. You can help them back up on their feet, reframe… The post In the corner appeared first on SimonHarlingBlog.

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Mar 13, 2023
Letter to future self

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership Not only is writing a letter to your future self a way of imagining who you are going to be sometime in the future. It’s… The post Letter to future self appeared first on SimonHarling...

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Mar 12, 2023
I don’t want to go

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership My eldest told me last week that she was at the back of the cast in stage school because there no one would see her… The post I don’t want to go appeared first on SimonHarlingBlog.

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Mar 11, 2023
Unlearning

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership Rather than holding up what we already believe to be true. Coach education would rather graft another level of complexity onto what already exists. Badges… The post Unlearning appeare...

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Mar 10, 2023