Pete Carroll is one of only three coaches who have won both a college National Championship and a Super Bowl and yet he has been fired several times – mostly recently after this season by the Las Vegas Raiders after only one year as coach.

Carroll is a motivational force to be reckoned with.  He taught a course at USC called “The Game in Life” and one of his principles is that confidence is a skill, not a personality trait. It must be practiced through visualization and “self-talk” management to eliminate the fear of failure.

He structured the course to show that the “Game” (life) is won in the mundane, daily habits. He called this Always Compete, meaning the goal is to be the best version of yourself regardless of the external circumstances.

One of his best learning tools is to ask students to write down their personal philosophy in 25 words or less. If you can’t define your “why,” you can’t maintain high-level performance under pressure.

A most intriguing practice that has me sharing this with you this morning.

“The only way other than being lucky or just being absolutely gifted to being successful is you have to figure out what it is that makes up your core values because until you do, you don’t know who you are. And if you don’t know who you are, you don’t know how to be you.” – Pete Carroll from Win Forever.

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