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The function of a coach or trainer is not to "tell you what to do" but to work cooperatively with you to help you recognize your tools and how to specifically get things in the right order so that you can use those tools to the best of your ability. It's up to you whether
The Secret To Change Is Choice
To the Player:
The secret to all change is choosing to move beyond whatever perspective is causing the problem. It's YOUR choice.
You want autonomy and be empowered. It’s only natural that you want to be independent, self-directing what happens in your life and be invested in the outcome of the decisions you make. You want to feel autonomous and empowered. The truth is, autonomy and empowerment means you have "free choice". So that means you have the right to choose to benefit or not from coaching, training or mentoring.
I want you to really think about what you've learned and what you have currently have done up to this point in your baseball career or life in general. Maybe something that's gotten you by in the past and worked then, but not so much now. It's now getting in your way. Keeping you stuck. But it's comfortable... it's easy. Yet you still say you want to change. You want to be better. The choice to change is up to you and no one else.
The information and training The Baseball Observer and 360 Peak Performance provides is about giving you genuine free choice. It’s up to you to choose what to do with it.
To the Coach:
It’s been said that if someone decides not to change or to challenge their beliefs, ask questions, practice etc., they are making an autonomous choice and it’s almost impossible for a coach, trainer, mentor or parent to change it.
Or can we?
I think in baseball and in most other areas, many professionals talk a good game about empowerment and autonomy to create change - but I actually think most fall a little short of that. What I mean by that is that many believe in autonomy or