Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode

1,218. One of my favorite parts of my job are my weekly tap-ins with coaches. Now, tap-ins are

check-ins, essentially, where coaches and I jump on a phone, jump on the phone, and we have a

conversation about the week that was, the week that is, decisions they're going through,

obstacles that they're navigating, conversations they're having, successes, failures they're

learning from, and they last anywhere from 10 minutes to be as long as an

hour. No agenda. We just get on the phone and would talk about what's top of mind. And a few weeks ago,

I was having to tap in with a head coach. And we were talking about adversity he was going through. And a question that I always ask is,

what is a private victory that you are proud of that nobody else knows about? And he goes on to

talk about the attitude that he had, the positive attitude that he had while the team was

navigating a difficult stretch. And he talked about being

deliberate in how he walked into the locker room. He was communicating with players and with

assistant coaches. And he was very intentional about this. Now, the team still struggled. However,

he did not allow the results of

on the field and the noise from the media and the fans to derail how he was approaching his

leadership every day. And they ended up getting out of it, turned things around, but he was talking

about how proud he was of himself for the way he was

able to navigate the storm. And I asked him, I said, who else knows about this? He goes, nobody.

It was just you and my wife. But he was incredibly, he was proud of the way he handled it. He said

that last year or a few years ago, he wouldn't have responded the way that he did. And he was proud of his way he handled it. He said that last year, a few years ago, he wouldn't have

responded the way that he did. And he was proud of his intentionality. And what I loved about

is not just what he did, but the fact that a lot of times as a coach is a thinkless job.

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