Let’s go back to half of the quote from part 2:
We would hype them up because we genuinely thought they were amazing, but they didn’t have that core belief that kept them working, no matter how much we believed in them. Picture self-belief as a cup. My cup, along with Bugus’s, was running over. We had enough to spare. We would try to pour our belief into them before realizing our attempts were futile.
THEIR CUPS HAD HOLES IN THEM.
The biggest thing I didn’t realize when I started coaching the junior team was how to manage my cup.
When I first got the job, it was overflowing. The first week of training camp, overflowing. Then the first game happened and I only realized this after the fact…
My players had holes in their cups.
Without the right tools to keep your cup overflowing, you will empty your personal cup.
And I did that, early in the year. And so did the guy I was working with on the project.
2 coaches with 2 empty cups and players that had holes in theirs.
Not a recipe for success…
The holes in their cup can stop you, the leader.
But it doesn’t have to…
In what ways do you refill your cup?
Can you plug the holes in others’ cups?
Or is that not something you control or even influence?