Coach Flip Naumburg's Journal

Tuesday, August 1, 2006

PRACTICE – PRACTICE – PRACTICE

When all is said and done I am a pure disciple of the theory that practice makes prefect. You cannot invent a final product without somewhat simulating whatever it is that you want to achieve. Along those lines, the more better that practice is, the more confidence I carry to the next day, whether it is another practice or a ‘real’ lacrosse game.

All I need in order to have the kind of practices I want is available field space. It seems simple enough, but it never is.

ROCK MY WORLD

With Rock-it Pocket, the lacrosse stick business, we have been growing, both internally (number of employees, etc.) and in bottom line potential over the past couple of years. Right now the business possibilities are a little ahead of our manufacturing capabilities. In other words, we have been behind production wise for at least 4 months. It’s great to be busy, but the ‘plan’ was not ever to be on the phone every day ($) apologizing for what we can’t do, and then upgrading everyone’s shipping ($) at no charge (to them) to placate irate customers as we have been.

Part of how I am going about fixing this is by teamwork. We are not too "fat" here, nor do we need another one of these or those. No, in my opinion, which isn’t all that business brilliant I suppose, what we are lacking can be fixed by practice. We need to work together as a team in a way that fills business needs as they are, and while creating new avenues for future commerce as well.

MOANING LISA

All the people who are worth using as a success model always have a plan. Leonardo Da Vinci? Here is a guy that did so many preliminary drawings for every thought he might have ever had that it is almost amazing that he ever actually finished painting the Mona Lisa, and he was doing all that more than 500 years ago.

If I learned anything by giving Tony Robbins (life coach) several thousand dollars of my money back in the early nineties, it was that knowing and getting what you want in life requires defining exactly what those things are. Motivation can come from anywhere, but knowing the truth about one’s own future or present self comes from just one place, and that is from inside, and from practice if you will.

Ask a good question and you will get a good answer. Ask a stupid question, and sure enough you will often get a matching moronic response. Try it at home.

MY CROSS (lacrosse?) TO BARE

I think everyone has his own "cross to bear" in life. Many have bigger ones to carry than mine, let there be no doubt. I could die tomorrow or thirty years from now, but either way I got a pretty good deal overall, and any way you look at it.

Having said all that, why is it that the thing I want the most (own lacrosse field to use whenever I want) in life continues to elude me into my golden years? So Tony, no matter how much positive goal setting energy I put into reducing my personal field of stress, I just can’t seem to get the job done. Help!

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