When expected to arrive, you have three choices. You can be early, or late, or on-time.
Simple enough.
However, there is a subtlety to being on-time which is critical to coaching.
In coach-speak, being “on time” usually means — “ready-to-go.”
Ready-to-go is what separates the average from the great.
Larry Bird, NBA super-star, was obsessed with practice as a Boston Celtic.
He would often show up to the gym hours early so he could work on every facet of his game. Then, when practice was scheduled to start, Bird was ready-to-go.
Would replacing a starting time with ready-to-go change things for you?
It did for me.
I’m no fan of staff meetings. In the past, I would wander into the room seconds before the start time. Then proceed to take the first 10 minutes of the meeting trying to catch up, since I was obviously unprepared.
Yes, I was on time, but I was nowhere near ready-to-go.
Then I changed.
Now I invest time before the meeting, to prepare. Usually I spend 10 minutes in my office Larry Birding.
The advantage is I now arrive ready-to-go, compared to being on-time.
Starting practice with a squad of athletes ready-to-go is quite different than athletes who are just on-time.
Is it possible that ready-to-go could change the experience of your practice? Make you more successful?
Time will tell.
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