You really want to be GREAT or be SPECIAL or have a major IMPACT; you have to LOVE to hoop! You have to LOVE to play! You have to LOVE to teach! You have to LOVE to coach! You have to LOVE to inspire!
What does” love it” mean? It means that you have an infectious, passionate, and wanting to be around, and working with anything that has to do with basketball playing or teaching. Your love for the game will fuel your development as a player and a person. You will want your coach to be critical of your game. You will want to workout before school. You will want to go the playground or rec center to play. You will want to figure out a way to attend that clinic or camp. You will want to get extra shots up after practice! You will WANT to do everything possible to GET BETTER!
I have always loved to be around the game, but my LOVE for the game is even more now than it was as a kid. But I remember going to the park or even on my driveway and working on my game. I would do drills or pretend I was hooping-it-up in a major game because I LOVED and LOVE BEING AROUND THE GAME! I can remember being at practice in college for 2 ½ hours, and then going to the rec center to play some more. I could not get enough of the game!
Now I LOVE to learn ways to enhance my coaching and teaching so I can spread the love to the players in my life. I LOVE being apart of Mike Lee Basketball because of his passion for the game and teaching. I am always developing, learning, and improving my skills as a coach because that is what I want from the players I coach. My love for the game won’t let me stay the same just because that is what you are supposed to do. If you LOVE the game, you will do everything in your power to be the best YOU can be for the game.
Too many people are just going through the motions because it is something they “do”. You are not GETTING or GIVING to the game in that mode. People who LOVE it, get up each day, keeping pushing, keep grinding, and keeping letting their LOVE and WANT TO drive them to their goals, dreams, and visions.
Find your LOVE and you will find your way!
Galen Harkness
Lead Skills Trainer
Colorado Division
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