The Youth Truth: Coaching & Parenting In Today’s Crazy Youth Sports World
by Andrew Simpson
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We imagine a world where every student-athlete is mentally healthy, soulfully inspired, joyfully engaged, and physically performing at their highest potential on and off the field.
We know for a fact that coaches and parents have the power to lead their kids to these types of uncommon results, they just don’t know how.
The sad truth is that youth anxiety, stress, burnout, comparison, injuries, perfectionism, and identity disturbance are at all-time highs. Our shortsightedness as leaders is killing the confidence and long-term success of our youth. In the book,
The Youth Truth, Andrew starts by sharing the shocking and scary realities facing our student-athletes today. He then dives deep into solutions- Love-Powered Leadership and Mindset Performance Coaching. When these two things are prioritized and implemented by coaches and parents who are both humble and hungry to ignite change, the result is a NEW TRUTH for our youth.
Together, we can change the youth sports industry.
Together, we can change generations.
Together, we can change families, team cultures, and we can create champions both on and off the field.
The Youth Truth will equip coaches and parents with the tools they need to gain more influence, develop stronger connections with the youth, and the ability to motivate and inspire our student-athletes more profoundly than ever before.
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Andrew Simpson
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2016 I recognized my efforts were short-sighted. “Get them bigger, stronger, faster, and mentally tougher.” Sprinkle in a little motivation and inspiration and call it a day.
One morning I received a phone call from a frantic parent– “My daughter can’t get out of her own head. She self-sabotages on the court when she makes a mistake. If coach pulls her she loses her cool. Can you help her!?”
Essentially, her daughter was only equipped to handle life when life was going her way. I realized right then and there that even the kids with 4.0 GPA’s who were All-American athletes are subject to the same thing. They need life lessons. They need mindset coaching. They need to be coached from the heart so that they develop and blossom from the inside out. They need love-powered mentor-leaders to pour into them and to be fully committed to seeing them thrive.
When that happens and only when that happens, they can finally start climbing towards their highest potential on and off the field.
Leadership is my message. Love-powered leadership. As a parent, coach, boss, employee, athlete, or student…how can you have better influence? Lead yourself well, then lead others. Seek to serve not to be served. Live your life from faith, not fear. Make wise decisions through prayer and counsel. Do the right thing even when you do not feel like it. Leadership is influence. And everything rises and falls on leadership.
