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Life Lessons

October 28, 2009 - Do you know that feeling of warmth creeping up your back that comes from time to time when you see a movie, hear a story, or read a book? “Coached for Life” delivered that sensation to me.

Life lessons are most useful if learned early. They only “stick” if they are learned in context. Flaherty and Uldrich deliver an impressive list of life lessons in the context of a Montana high school football team’s maturation and success. What are your goals? What is your potential? Do you have sufficient discipline to get there? And your team, what responses would the above questions elicit from them? Is your team like a piece of steel after a magnet is run over it, all aligned to the same goals? Most useful, though, is their forty year retrospective in which they lay out how players applied lessons learned on the high school football team to their lives, and how it affected the success they achieved.

Feel good, learn something, enjoy this well written story of the long term effects of good coaching. Read this book!

Jim Hirshfield
Author, “Fortune & Freedom: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Success”

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