The Power of Knowing the Future

As a Peak Performance Coach, I help athletes to identify and resolve blocks that affect performance. One of the most significant of these blocks is a coach with a negative coaching style. Generally, coaches have no idea how being tense, angry, threatening or abusive affects their athletes. Even a slouching coach has a negative effect. The coach's attitude quite literally trumps all attitudes. However, one of my coaches, Peter, challenged me on this and said that I was being a little tough on coaches. His argument was that all coaches have to be dictators by design and even good coaches may not be liked.    Peter coaches high school level players for the two years before they graduate. But he thinks in four year blocks, and works with the junior varsity coaches to groom the players for the varsity team. He argues that few athletes can understand