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Hi Coach,
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Luke Gromer, RYG Athletics
QUOTE
“Action leads to insight more often than insight leads to action.”
VISUAL
REFLECTION
“Action leads to insight more often than insight leads to action.”
I read the Heath brothers’ book, The Power of Moments, several years ago and this quote has stuck with me ever since.
As coaches and leaders, I think we too often get it backward.
We spend copious amounts of time learning and trying to gain insight that we hope will cause us to take actions that move us towards our vision or goal.
However, when I’m willing to take action, to try something new, it almost always leads to useful insights and results that move me towards my goals and help me become the person, coach, or leader I aspire to be.
When I go searching for insight first, it can be easy to neglect to take that insight and put it into action.
We can get stuck in the paralysis by analysis phase, or we just resolve that it’s easier to continue doing the same thing we’ve been doing than to take an uncomfortable action.
This quote was a key catalyst for me in becoming committed to being a person of action and reflection.
The greatest learning experiences in my journey as a coach, teacher, entrepreneur, father, and husband have all been the result of taking action.
Take action. Reflect. Repeat.
Some of my friends at PGC Basketball used to say “the biggest gap in the world is the gap between knowing and doing.”
Most of us don’t need more information, we need to take more action.
Take action. Reflect. Repeat.
The insights we seek are usually on the other side of taking action.
Take action. Reflect. Repeat.
COACHING APPLICATION
A few thoughts on how this concept could apply in your coaching or leadership context…
Try new things in your practice
Introduce new constraints in activities you already run
Introduce new activities that you created or saw someone else run
Try a new strategy to connect with the athlete you’re frustrated with
Try a new team building or culture activity with your team
Implement a new system or strategy with your team or an individual athlete
Go observe another coach coaching your sport or another sport
Go coach a different sport than your primary sport
Go work camps, attend clinics, or other forms of professional development, then apply new ideas in your coaching
Take a risk — go after a new job, role, or career
CLOSING
The thoughts above are not to say that we shouldn’t carefully consider our decisions and seek to make wise ones, but it is to say that action tends to be a better learning tool than inaction.
As coaches and leaders, we should be people of action.
Let’s be willing to take risks and try new things — it’s how we learn and grow.
If we ask our athletes to do those things, we should be willing to do it ourselves.
Take action. Reflect. Repeat.
To taking action and to your success,
Luke Gromer, RYG Athletics
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