Marcus Aurelius

For the last few years during a training session, if I thought of an interesting way to teach a coaching point, or had a discussion over a soccer topic with a player, I would immediately write it down on the sign-in sheets I have players use at the beginning of training.  Then, if I wanted to expand on the topic I wrote about, I would use it as a topic for my YouTube videos.

Last summer, I read a book called the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.  Meditations is a series of personal writings by the Roman Emperor.  He never expected them to be published and didn't necessarily organize them into topics.  If he had a thought, he'd write it down.  After reading this book, I decided to dedicate one journal to the short thoughts of my daily trainings.

After giving it some thought as I sit here in Michigan waiting out the Covid19 Pandemic of 2020, I thought it would be a good idea to start also putting these daily thoughts on my website as part of my I HATE SOCCER blog.