Life Lessons: Biggest Mistakes Made Coaching Youth Soccer
Posted: March 24, 2012 at 12:16 am
We all know that players can make mistakes in soccer. But so can coaches.
Here are 10 of the biggest mistakes youth soccer coaches can make while teaching the game:
10. Lack of Communication
To be a good youth soccer coach, you must be a good communicator. In order to teach your players the game, you need to effectively communicate with them. You also need to communicate your expectations to the parents so they know exactly what is expected of them.
9. Lack of Training
It is easy for any child to start playing soccer. But that doesn't mean it is easy for any person to coach the game. Check your local soccer club for coaching classes and certification programs. Even if you have played the game before, these programs will teach you how to coach the game.
8. Unprepared For Practice
Always be prepared to run your practice. Don't show up without an agenda. You need to run a coordinated session to keep players focused, especially the younger ones.
7. Losing Control
You are not just the coach of your team. You are also responsible for keeping things running smoothly. If players or parents stray from your expectations, let them know immediately. If they continue to detract, make sure you hold them accountable for their actions. Finally, make sure you stay cool. Stay in control of your emotions at all times, and be a model for the behavior that you expect from your players and parents.
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Stalled in Fear: How to Move Off Life's Sidelines
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I write about staring down fear a lot. Partly because it comes up often in life coaching, but theres no getting around that the main reason I dwell on it is because I prefer to live in a way that requires dealing with it over and over again.
In my life philosophy, fear is a necessary part of living fully. Like most, I can be really good at pushing through fear sometimes and I really struggle with it other times. I take it situation by situation.
Lately, the star situation has been my injured knee. I have an unremarkable medial meniscus tear, but to me it is very, very big and daunting because it is an unknown. Despite winning an award for a series I wrote on the prevalence of knee injuries in female athletes back in 1997, that wasnt about my knee, my body, my life. Oh, what a difference me-me-me makes.
This week I went to an orthopedist for a second opinion on whether or not I need arthroscopic surgery. The answer to that, though, is not what this column is about. Its about the feeling I got from the experience of the doctors office and my desire to share it.
I took a cab from the PATH station to my appointment across Manhattan to minimize my walking. The doctor was terrific he examined me, really listened and carefully laid out my options. (In my book, when you can say youve left a doctors office feeling heard and fully informed, you have hit the medical jackpot.)
But the key moment came when he asked me about my pain. Had it lessened over time? Worsened? Changed? He wanted details and I realized I couldnt give them to him. I wasnt clear on why until I was prone on the X-ray table and thinking about it. I had been so paralyzed with fear that I had barely allowed myself to get into a situation where it might produce pain.
Walking down stairs might hurt, so I did it the safe way. Bending it might cause a twinge, so I rarely did. Being on it for extended periods made it sore, so I steered clear. What if I made it worse? Because if theres one thing you learn when you wear a knee brace, its that much of the population has dealt with a knee injury and many are all too happy to share their experience, even if it means terrifying you.
It might not be a good idea to listen to lay people, the doctor said gently.
Yes. I could have kissed him. That felt so common sense and freeing. Not just with relation to my knee or any other physical issue. It was a metaphor for every darned fear, wasnt it? Its not like I originated this thought. Open up Louise Hays You Can Heal Your Life and look up knee or leg inability to bend, fear, inflexibility, fear of the future, not wanting to move.
All this went whirling through my mind. Stop listening to others when it gets to the point of detriment. Move forward at your own pace. Listen to your gut. But make sure you are moving, taking action, paying mind to those sharp instincts.
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Combating Childhood Obesity, The Budget Case – Rep. Ron Kind and Donna Katen-Bahensky
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Editor's Choice Main Category: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health Article Date: 23 Mar 2012 - 10:00 PDT
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The "Campaign to End Obesity" has just released a new study that shows that it is economically crucial to take real action on obesity, particularly in children.
Interestingly, the study was performed by two prominent conservative economists, both former Bush administration officials, who concluded that the impact on the budget would be far lower if policies to reverse childhood obesity were acted upon, rather than failing to tackle childhood obesity, which would be considerably more costly.
The authors highlight the fact that several evidence-based obesity interventions and treatment methods can prove cost-effective, as well as offering major long-term savings. They not only reduce obesity, but also prevent or decrease dangerous and costly secondary diseases, including cancer and diabetes.
$147 billion are currently spent every year on obesity-related health care expenses, a figure that does not include the additional billions in costs to businesses, communities and families. If the obesity epidemic is not controlled, the health care toll will continue to shoot up.
Health care costs are already the fastest-growing area of government spending, and according to a recent McKinsey report, the projected spending for the U.S. on obesity could be as high as $320 billion annually by 2018.
In light of these budgetary threats, Congress passed the health care overhaul in 2010 to seriously tackle the childhood obesity epidemic.
Progress is already being made in Wisconsin and countrywide, through implementing new community-directed programs that make healthy living more accessible to children and their families. The law also means that the secretary of Health and Human Services is in a position to ensure are wider availability of certain medical services for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of obesity, and that these are covered under federal insurance programs.
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Student fitness improves with anti-obesity program
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YORK (Reuters Health) - Obesity rates continue to climb in California schools, but exercise and nutrition programs may be having a positive effect on student health, a new study suggests.
Kids entered fifth grade more obese every year, but they did not gain more weight and their overall fitness improved as they moved to higher grades.
"We accomplished a significant first step and that is to slow obesity," said Dr. William Bommer, a cardiologist at the University of California, Davis, who worked on the study. "But we importantly were not able to reverse it."
The researchers, whose report is published in the American Heart Journal, recorded the fitness gains after California mandated exercise time and healthful eating in public schools across the state in 2005.
While the findings suggest the prevention programs may be helping, they can't prove the programs caused the health improvements.
Obesity is associated with high blood pressure, diabetes and other ailments in children and adults. About 17 percent of children and teens in the United States are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In response to rising obesity trends, California required public schools to provide an average of 20 minutes of physical exercise per day for kids in kindergarten through fifth grade, and 40 minutes for grades six to 12. Schools also had to increase the quality and quantity of health education and could no longer serve high-fat, high-sugar foods and drinks.
Bommer's team tracked data from more than six million students in fifth, seventh and ninth grade from 2003 to 2008, after these measures took effect.
At each grade level, the students took fitness tests which included body mass index (BMI) measurements, endurance runs, push-ups and shoulder stretches. The researchers analyzed those test records for changes in obesity and fitness.
They found some encouraging signs. Though the number of obese kids continued to increase (two percent more children were overweight or obese in 2008 than in 2003), the rate of increase seemed to be slowing.
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Financial Literacy Key to Sufficient Retirement Planning
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Most workers dream of the day when they swap their business attire for shorts and trade in business meetings for time on the links. Maintaining your desired lifestyle in retirement without a steady paycheck takes discipline and extensive planning, and theres no one-size-fits-all approach.
There is a high correlation between the action people take and seeing results, says Jean Setzfand, vice president forFinancial Security at AARP. She adds that the level of action in financial planning is a good predictor for financial freedom when the golden years roll around.
How someone fares financially after retirement is directly tied to three factors-- their salary level at retirement, how long they work beyond 65 and how much and whether they save in a defined-contribution retirement plan during their working lifetime, says Nevin Adams, director of education and external relations and co-director of EBRI Center for Research on Retirement Income.
Know Where You Spend Money
Whether youre planning for retirement or in retirement, knowing your expenses is important. Not just your fixed expenses, like rent and food, but also your discretionary expenses, like vacations and other payments that dont occur monthly, says Michael Goodman, certified public accountant and president at Wealthstream Advisors.
Many budgets dont change significantly in retirement, especially if they stay in the same home, but, for example, there are adjustments for travel or whether someone eats out more or less. As people age, their budgets will change and some costs will disappear, but these may be replaced by health-care costs, says Ted Sarenski, certified public accountant financial planner and CEO of Blue Ocean Strategic Capital.
With life expectancy for Americans at 78.1 years, according to the World Bank, 50% of the population lives beyond the life expectancy, says Goodman. Taking this into account, you should be conservative with your life expectancy when calculating how much money you will need.
Calculate How Much You Will Need
When calculating how much you will need to cover retirement funds, Goodman suggests using investment earnings and a portion of principal in a retirement account. And while planning for life after work should start in your 20s and 30s, realize that there will be a significant shift in lifestyle.
You should have different sources of income in retirement, says Sarenski. Social Security only replaces 25% to 30% of your preretirement income. If you need $50,000 for retirement annually while receiving $15,000 from Social Security for example, you calculate the amount of savings needed by dividing $35,000 ($50,000 minus $15,000) by a conservative 5% or multiplying $35,000 times 20 years. In this example, you would need $700,000 in savings.
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Retirement lifestyle
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Most retirement planning emphasizes financial considerations. How can I plan for the way I'll live after I leave work? -- David, Miami, Fla.
Many of us get so caught up in the financial aspects of preparing for retirement that we forget the reason we do all that saving, investing and planning in the first place: to have a meaningful and satisfying post-career life.
So "lifestyle" retirement planning is every bit as important as crunching the numbers, even if it doesn't always get the same attention.
If anything, lifestyle and financial retirement planning complement each other. After all, you can't really know how big a nest egg you'll need without having an idea of how you want to live in retirement. And the kind of life you'll be able to lead will depend in large part on how successful you are at accumulating savings.
It's essential to factor lifestyle considerations into your financial planning, especially in the ten years or so leading up to retirement. Here are four ways to do that:
1. Envision your future. As you enter the home stretch to retirement, you'll need to address big questions like whether to continue living in your current area or move to a new city or town like one of the 25 profiled in MONEY's Best Places to Retire.
But you'll want to focus on small-picture issues too, even down to how you'll actually spend the hours of each day once your work routine no longer provides the structure for your day.
One way to sharpen your vision of the future is to rev up a tool like T. Rowe Price's Ready-2-Retire. Among other things, this tool allows you to pick different retirement activities (travel, pursuing creative interests, going back to school, etc.) and then prioritize them based on how important each is to you.
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For a deeper dive, you may want to attend one of the growing number of pre-retirement seminars that can help you manage the transition from the work-a-day to retirement. For example, the North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement in Asheville, N.C., offers two three-day "Paths to Creative Retirement" workshops each year where participants explore options for retirement and figure out which are the best fit with their goals and values.
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Retirement planning: It's not just about the money
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Most retirement planning emphasizes financial considerations. How can I plan for the way I'll live after I leave work? -- David, Miami, Fla.
Many of us get so caught up in the financial aspects of preparing for retirement that we forget the reason we do all that saving, investing and planning in the first place: to have a meaningful and satisfying post-career life.
So "lifestyle" retirement planning is every bit as important as crunching the numbers, even if it doesn't always get the same attention.
If anything, lifestyle and financial retirement planning complement each other. After all, you can't really know how big a nest egg you'll need without having an idea of how you want to live in retirement. And the kind of life you'll be able to lead will depend in large part on how successful you are at accumulating savings.
It's essential to factor lifestyle considerations into your financial planning, especially in the ten years or so leading up to retirement. Here are four ways to do that:
1. Envision your future. As you enter the home stretch to retirement, you'll need to address big questions like whether to continue living in your current area or move to a new city or town like one of the 25 profiled in MONEY's Best Places to Retire.
But you'll want to focus on small-picture issues too, even down to how you'll actually spend the hours of each day once your work routine no longer provides the structure for your day.
One way to sharpen your vision of the future is to rev up a tool like T. Rowe Price's Ready-2-Retire. Among other things, this tool allows you to pick different retirement activities (travel, pursuing creative interests, going back to school, etc.) and then prioritize them based on how important each is to you.
For a deeper dive, you may want to attend one of the growing number of pre-retirement seminars that can help you manage the transition from the work-a-day to retirement. For example, the North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement in Asheville, N.C., offers two three-day "Paths to Creative Retirement" workshops each year where participants explore options for retirement and figure out which are the best fit with their goals and values.
2. Do a test drive. Once you have a sense of what your ideal retirement might be, give it a trial run to see if the fantasy squares with reality.
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