The Power in Humility

When I first started as a coach, I believed in my "brilliance" - that I could change, influence, teach, and move all players to greatness. It was my sense of invincibility combined with an incredibly over-inflated sense of personal value that drove my ego to embrace the reality that I could motivate all that heard my words.

Time and truth can be cruel taskmasters.

I learned that I did not have the premium on brilliance nor did I have the patent on wisdom. In fact, the irony was that the wisdom I so believed I possessed really only came to me when I realized just how much wisdom I did not have.

My humility made me human....

And my humanity made me powerful.

Not the kind of power you wield upon others, but the power that is borne of strength because it is passed on and through others.

We cannot hold power, we can only share it.

And a team that shares such power is unbeatable.