Experiment and Prototype Constantly – Good coaches are willing to try new things, they will often experiment on themselves before they try it with the athletes, but they are always tinkering and fine-tuning. It can be as simple as just changing the order of some drills or exercises or it can be drastic like changing the type of strength training you do, but if you always do what you have always done you will get what you have always got. If you are satisfied with that then it is OK, but don’t complain when the pack passes you by.
Talk to yourself and be sure and listen to what you are saying. If you have too much noise in your life to hear your own thinking then eliminate the noise. If you constantly doubt what you are doing then you better re-evaluate your approach. It is Ok to question, I must emphasize that. Talking to yourself to find a better why is the way to go.
Hone your instincts and your intuition. Develop a good BS filter. Be skeptical and critical but be sure to have a knowledge base and a context to sort through the bullshit until you learn to recognize the truth.
Seek clarity. Get your thinking squared away so that you have a solid foundation in concepts and theory. Then turn that clarity into action and the action into results.
Focus. Results will come from an emphasis on the need to do training methods. Eliminate the nice to do that is often just a filler or fluff. Getting and maintaining focus is a process of subtraction more than addition.
Simplicity yields complexity – I have said this many times. Be a simplifier not a complexifier. No need to apologize for simplicity and minimalism in the approach. The genius lies not in making it complicated, true genius lies in the ability to simplify.