Category : An Advisers Life
An Advisers Life – Do You Want To See Your Future?
If you want to see your future, take a minute to look around and see who your friends and colleagues are. If you are hanging...
An Advisers Life – No Two Players Take The Same Path
It’s not often I end up with two players on the same team, playing the same position. This year it happened for the first time...
An Advisers Life – The Number One Reason Most Players Fail To Reach Their Highest Level
December and January are the months when I typically get a lot of phone calls and emails from parents and players who are in their...
An Advisers Life – Don’t Believe All The Advertising You See From Teams
Over the last few weeks I have received multiple emails from players and parents complaining about how the photos teams were presenting of housing, dressing...
An Advisers Life – You Can Not Speed Up The Advancement Process
Patience. It is a word that few hockey players want to hear, and in many if not most cases, it is a word they do...
An Advisers Life – Your Goal Is To Play Tier 3? You’re Kidding Right?
Your Goal Is To Play Tier 3? You’re Kidding Right? Think that’s a stupid set of questions? Yes, I think it is a stupid set...
An Advisers Life – Self Evaluation – Honesty
Self evaluation. How often should we do it? How important is it? How can you be completely honest with yourself? Self evaluation is probably the...
An Advisers Life – If You Cant See The Problem The Problem Is Usually You
I decided to write today after getting calls from a few parents yesterday. Both sets of parents looking to fire their current adviser and hire...
An Advisers Life – What Is “Sanctioned Hockey” Really?
I really enjoy a lot of the emails I get from readers asking questions that really should have common sense answers. Unfortunately though, those common...
Am Advisers Life – Be Humble Not Arrogant
As an Adviser, I really get to see it all. Great competition, great leadership, skillful innovation, and the humility to understand when someone invents a...
An Advisers Life – Contracts Go Both Ways And Thats A Good Thing
Contracts. Some people don’t like them, and some people think they can just be broken when ever they want. It’s usually the same group of...
An Advisers Life – Six Signs You Have A Bad Adviser Or Agent
Now, I know I am probably going to piss off half of my colleagues by writing this column today, but its time some of these...
An Advisers Life – Ten Signs Your Not Going To Get To The Next Level
There are all kinds of players and coaches in the world. Some are good and some are bad? Everyone has been around both types of...
An Advisers Life – If It Ended Today Would You Be Satisfied With What You Have Done?
The End. Some day everyone learns that it is over. That playing at a highly competitive level is over. The comradery. The travel. The recruiting....
An Advisers Life – Four Keys To Successful Mentoring Or Coaching
Often times I get emails and questions asking me what I believe it takes to be a good Mentor, Adviser or Coach. To me it...
An Advisers Life – Building Your Skyscraper
Yes, there are some very basic things that players and parents often over look when staring out on their journey. Many coaches too, do not...
An Advisers Life – Todays Cost Of Opportunity
I have been an Adviser for a long time. I have been a part of many success stories written by players and their families. NHL,...
An Advisers Life – If You Want To Reach The Next Level Forget Everything You Think You Know
The internet can be a great resource, and it can be the absolute worst resource. Your friends, your former team mates, parents, and other people...
An Advisers Life – Not Drafted? Whats next?
The drafts are over. A few hundred players were taken in the USHL, NCDC and NAHL draft. That’s it. Just a few hundred in the...
An Advisers Life – When Its You Who Is The Problem Not The Coaches
I decided to write today after getting calls from a few parents yesterday. Both sets of parents looking to fire their current adviser and hire...