How do you take sixty to seventy high school guys with widely differing degrees of athletic ability and mold them into a winning football team? That's what Coach Doug Wilkins of Denville, New Jersey did for forty-four years, winning twenty-five consecutive seasons from 1985 through 2009, along with eight state championships. Coach Wilkins didn't start out that way, though. With a losing first season, he knew something needed to change. This is the first of three newsletters that reveal what Coach Wilkins discovered over the course of his career as a football coach, strategies for winning that can be applied to every area of our lives. To begin, Coach Wilkins realized he needed a vision. Did he want to build a winning team, or a lasting program? To Coach, a lasting program was permanent, while a winning team was merely temporary. He determined that he needed a plan to build a structure that would last, and so he set out to build the foundation for a program that would make, in his words, "the Brian Klemmers of this world." The foundation of Coach's program was commitment. While it would seem natural to look for talent, Coach took a different approach. It didn't matter how talented a player was, whether he was fast or slow, big or small, coordinated or not. Instead, what Wilkins looked for was how badly the student wanted to play. "Does he want it?" Coach Wilkins asked when he considered players. Wilkins set a 12 and 0 goal for each season, a standard so high that he knew he had to have kids who were willing to make the sacrifices necessary to be the best. They needed mental toughness combined with a relentless work ethic that applied not only to football, but their schoolwork, as well. When Coach raised the bar and the player was pushed beyond his comfort zone, he had to be able to reach inside and find the next gear. During games when Coach considered who he would play, he looked for kids whose attitudes and actions forced him to play them. This type of commitment wasn't for the short-term, either. Wilkins sold a four-year program to 9th graders. They had to be willing to work hard for four years as part of the team, even though it wasn't until they were seniors that they would be considered to start. Not only that, but each year, every player was reevaluated to see if he was still committed to a relentless work ethic. This is the kind of commitment that Coach Wilkins fondly remembers about Brian Klemmer. On one broiling September day, Brian showed up for practice in high-top shoes and developed severe blisters on his feet. Coach suggested that Brian take a couple of days off, but Brian surprised everyone the next day when he showed up wearing socks and no shoes. That is how Brian practiced until his feet healed. It's no wonder commitment is the 1st trait Brian discusses in his bestselling book, The Compassionate Samurai. As Coach Wilkins developed this football program, parents recognized that he presented life lessons that could reach far beyond their kids' high school years, into the rest of their lives, and they lined up to get their kids on his team. All of us can have winning lives, too. It doesn't begin with talent, but an attitude. Ask yourself how badly you want to achieve your goals, and consider commitment as the cornerstone for all you desire to achieve.

Once upon a time, there was an elderly, benevolent king who had served and led his people well for many years. As all good leaders do, the king was aware of his own mortality and was planning for the day he stepped down from the throne. As this king had no heir, the law of the land called for him to appoint the next king. When he knew the time was right, he called all of the elders and servants of the castle to the throne room and told them, “One year from today, I will end my reign as your king, and on that day I will appoint the new ruler of our land.” Gasps of surprise and murmurs of speculation could be heard throughout the throne room. The king waited until he had regained everyone’s attention and stated, “I am giving each of you one seed to plant and care for over the next year. One year from today, each of you will reconvene here in the throne room to show what harvest you have gleaned from the seed I am giving to you this day.” Each of the elders, in turn, took a seed from the sack that the king held before him. Then the servants came forward, and each received their seed. Among the last of the servants to approach the throne was a young footman named Phillip. He bowed respectfully, took a seed from the bag held by his king, and rapidly left the throne room. Phillip rushed home to his humble cottage that he shared with his young wife. Phillip showed his wife the seed he had received and told her of the king’s plan to select the next ruler. Phillip cleaned their best clay pot, filled it with the most fertile soil he could find, and lovingly planted the seed he had been given. Over the next weeks and months, Phillip and his wife lovingly watered and fertilized the seed, but alas, nothing seemed to be growing in the pot. While performing his duties in the castle, Phillip heard the other servants and elders bragging and boasting of the voluminous, colorful plants they were cultivating. Phillip and his wife were dejected, but they meticulously cared for the seed in the pot for the rest of the year. On the appointed day, all of the king’s elders and servants reconvened in the throne room to present their plants to the king and await his decision as to who would be his successor. The king commented on the lavish and healthy plants everyone had grown, and when it was Phillip’s turn to come forward, he was embarrassed to set before the king an empty pot. The other servants and elders laughed and jeered at Phillip’s obvious failure. The king stood and raised his hands for silence, then announced, “I am pleased to turn my throne and the leadership of our land over to my honorable and dedicated servant, Phillip.” Everyone gathered in the throne room stood in stunned silence until the king explained, “One year ago, I gave each of you a seed. All of the seeds had been boiled. They were dead and unable to produce any of the plants you have presented here today. Phillip deserves your allegiance and your honor as he has demonstrated the first and most important element of leadership: that of honesty and integrity.” As you go through your day today, plant honesty, and you will live happily ever after. Today’s the day!

The journey we call the work. This work doesn't cause us to not have feelings of guilt, shame or blame. It's not like you go through a training and instantly never make another bad decision in your life. What is amazing about this work is the fact that we have tools to express our feelings, change our sunglasses and move on; if we choose to. If any person on the planet I cannot think of anyone that is more deserving of that experience than our youth. Do you remember what is was like to be a tween? Like the entire world revolved around you? The feeling that if you had a pimple you couldn't even imagine to go to school because that would be the only thing anyone would notice all day? Our Playful Mastery and Youth Leadership Camp give our youth, our future leaders, the ability to process through all of their emotions. It won't mean that they will never have bad days, and it will mean that they are equips to deal with them. Has your rebound rate improved since your first class? Mine definitely has, and I can't imagine a more powerful tool than the ability to bounce back into my life at a rapid pace!

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