Three Steps To Coaching Gratitude Effectively
~Gratitude~ Among coaches, I hear this word tossed around. Ranging from wishing parents would show more gratitude to the desire for our wrestlers to throw down from a place of gratitude for the opportunity, it's clear that gratitude is important to us. As well, it should be. “Gratitude is the foundation for greatness,” said Sanderson, who will bring his nine qualifiers to Pittsburgh for the NCAA wrestling championships Thursday through Saturday at PPG Paints Arena. “Gratitude is the foundation for lasting success in anything that you do. You take that away, the foundation is going to crumble a bit.” The benefits of gratitude extend far beyond manners and common decency. It can be the turning point in a wrestler's mindset. Even if it is as simple as changing their approach from an "I have to" approach to an "I get to" approach, gratitude allows a wrestler to get more from themselves and more out of the sport. Gratitude allows all of us to suffer more withou...