With his clipboard, whistle, and red coach's cap, he walked behind the line of girls on his team as they greeted the team they had just beaten, 1-0, a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean in the late afternoon sun.
He's quietly, calmly, and steadily building them into a team of winners.
He has gotten these girls' attention, which means they can learn from him both how to win -- and to lose -- games.
In sports, somewhat more dramatically but far less painfully than in real life, you learn what it means to lose, with lots of short-term pain involved. You also learn the joy of winning, which also turns out to bring a relatively brief sense of ecstasy.
No matter what happens, from the coaching perspective, there is the next game to prepare for. So what you are really teaching is persistence, improvement, resilience.
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persistence, improvement and resilience are certainly lessons we can't get enough of- they prepare us for the future tests in life...if they can be taught and caught at a young age...oh how much better our life will be!
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