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There are a lot of reasons for finishing strong, such as showing your integrity by finishing through instead of at the line and pushing yourself to your limits so you can reach your goals. But perhaps one of the most important reasons to finish strong is this: Your finish line today will be your starting line tomorrow. In this episode, Mackey explains why and how to finish strong in everything that we do.

Key Takeaways: -Your finish line today will be your starting line tomorrow. -You start where the weakest teammate ends. -When you learn how to finish strong in sports, you learn how to finish strong in life.

To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at [email protected] or visit our website at 2words.tv/gameplan3.

Most young people look at respect as something you earn, not something that is given to you. But this thinking is completely backward. We should respect others because of who WE are, not who they are. Respect is at the core of creating a team and school culture where it's not only okay, but expected that student-athletes will stand up and say "this is not right" with regards to sexual harassment.

In this episode, Jesse Mahler and Valencia Peterson discuss how coaching is a platform for preventing sexual harassment. There is a privilege that comes with being a coach, and we need to use that to our advantage to stop sexual harassment from happening in our schools.

Key Takeaways: -Coaching is a platform for sexual harassment prevention. -Respect looks like healthy communication and vulnerability. -Repetition is everything.

Valencia Peterson is an assistant football Coach at Penn Wood Highschool in Pennsylvania and is the Founder of Open Door Abuse Awareness Prevention also known as ODAAP. Find more of her work at: http://www.odaap.org/ Jesse Mahler is a program specialist at FUTURES without violence, a national violence prevention organization. Jesse lives in Oakland, California and helps manage Coaching Boys Into Men. CBIM can be found at https://www.coachescorner.org/ or by email at [email protected]

To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at [email protected] or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan3

Ownership is one of the keys to making sure our athletes stay in the game. In other words, if we want to keep them from quitting, and if we want them to play to their highest level, we've got to help them feel that they have a stake in our athletic program. When our athletes have ownership, they have passion, and with that passion, they will find success in sports and in life.

In this episode, Coach Tim Teykl explains why ownership is so important in athletics and other parts of life. Everything in sports mimics life, and if we can teach our athletes early what it feels like to take ownership and be passionate about their hard work, they will find success later in life, too.

Key Takeaways: -When you're given ownership, you have passion. -When you have passion, you can succeed. -Everything in sports mimics what happens in life.

To learn more about our 2words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at [email protected] or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan3.

Your health limits how far you can go in life. When you're in poor health, it limits what you can do and the impact that you can have on others. That's not to say that illness or obesity will always prevent people from reaching their dreams or influencing their community. But it is true that the healthier you are, the further and faster you can go. Health isn't about just one thing, but to get healthy you do need to take one step in the right direction every day. In this episode, Mackey dives in on the importance of doing the work to get healthy.

Key Takeaways: -The healthier you are, the further and faster you can go. -The healthier you are, the longer and better you can serve. -Take one step in the right direction every day.

To learn more about the 2words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at [email protected] or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan3.

Anger is a powerful emotion. It can destroy so quickly and so completely. And sometimes, what it destroys cannot be rebuilt. Anger can destroy relationships and entire lives. But the thing is, anger is also useful if it's used in the right way. When the destructive nature of anger is kept in check, it can be used for positive change. Angry indignation at the suffering or unfair treatment of others can help us create a new, more equal world. But we have to remember our Anger Rights, or that force for good will become the force of our destruction.

In this episode, Mackey breaks down the three Anger Rights and encourages us to remember that when we use our anger to lift other people up, to fight for equality, then we can bring about positive change.

Key Takeaways: -You have the right to be angry, but your anger does not have the right to have you. -You have the right to get angry, but its not right to get there too quick. -You have the right to be angry, but you don't have the right to be disrespectful.

To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at [email protected] or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan3

The team belongs to the athletes as much as it does to the coaches, and the team is bigger than athletes or coaches. Everyone is working together in service of the team. And if there are people who aren't working in service to the team, people who aren't fulfilling their roles, then the team breaks down. But if everyone has a We over Me mentality, there's nothing the team cannot accomplish. In this episode, Coach Dusty Crafton tells us several ways to bring the team together for the greater We.

Key Takeaways: -Give your athletes ownership on the team. -Establish a We over Me mentality. -Dealing with a little pain and adversity is good for you.

To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at [email protected] or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan3

The only way to finish strong is to give your best to the cause or goal straight through (not to) the finish line. There will be real consequences for our world if this generation of coaches fails to finish strong. You are that generation, and you have a great responsibility to your athletes, your family, and future generations to prepare the leaders in your locker rooms for the world they will face tomorrow.

Part of that preparation involves teaching tomorrow's leaders how to finish strong. In this episode, Mackey dives deep on what it means to finish strong and how to do it.

Key Takeaways: -Change the mindset from a "have to" to a "get to" mentality. -If you're going to finish strong, you cannot do it alone. -Continue giving your best, even when it costs more than you thought it would.

The Mackey Leadership Camp will be held online, July 6-10, 2020. Details will follow upon registration.

The MLC Virtual Summit is completely free, and you are encouraged to get as many of your team to participate as possible. Register Today!

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Having a 5-star talent is not as important as having a 5-star character. Talent cannot take you very far without a solid foundation of good character. Talent can also only take you as far as your character will allow. So in that sense, character is both a foundation and ceiling. This is just one of the things that makes character so important in our lives. In this episode, Mackey breaks down why character matters.

Key Takeaways: -Character is a talent amplifier. -Character is both a ceiling and a foundation. -Character will limit how far your talent can take you.

To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at [email protected] or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan3

The Mackey Leadership Camp will be held online, July 6-10, 2020. Details will follow upon registration.

The MLC Virtual Summit is completely free, and you are encouraged to get as many of your team to participate as possible. Register Today!

https://form.jotform.com/92875089599179

Culture is a mindset. When your mindset is that your team's culture matters and the values you talk about settle into your daily mindset as guiding principles, that mindset, that culture, becomes evident to your athletes so that they can share in it. When athletes see that the athletic program is important to their coaches, the program will become important to them, too. In this episode, Coach Billy Mathis discusses the importance of culture in building a successful athletic program.

Key Takeaways: -Culture is a mindset. -Athletes can hold each other accountable. -Kids will run through a brick wall for you if they know that you love them.

To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum and our e-learning resources, please email Colton at [email protected] or visit our website, www.2words.tv/gameplan3

Connect with Coach Mathis:

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@coachn_4christ

Systemic racism is a topic too big for any one person to tackle. That's why a movement grew on social networking sites and turned into protests in the streets. The movement is people, black and white and everything in between, coming together to say "This is wrong and I will not remain silent." In this episode, Mackey addresses current events related to systemic racism and his perspective on why we have to keep fighting until it's gone.

Key Takeaways: -We have to call right right and wrong wrong. We cannot allow wrong to be normal. -Saying "I don't see color" is not helpful in fighting racism, it just normalizes everyone else's experience to your own. -What starts on Twitter can't stay on Twitter.

To learn more about the 2words Character Development and our e-learning resources, please email Colton at [email protected] or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan3

Schedule a time for Mackey to virtually encourage your athletes by emailing Alyssa at [email protected]