Coach Thorsted, Author at WIN THE NEXT PLAY

Basketball is meditation in motion.

Junior high teachers don’t have the time or resources necessary to plant seeds in neat little rows. Instead, they must scatter the seeds throughout the room and then nurture anything that grows.

My Most Important Principle

I go through my Check-in Checklist often. I update it often, too. I was having trouble sleeping tonight, and going through my Check-in Checklist wasn’t helping like it usually does. This may surprise you, but I have a tendency to overthink things (pause for shocked gasps). So, I got up and decided to re-write my …

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Inhale calmness. Exhale awareness.

Moments of serendipity remind us of how connected we really are, both to each other and to the universe.

Play to the rhythm of the world.

Not exercising for seven days makes one week.

Humans are creatures of habit and habitat.

To help yourself with making good dietary choices, eat before you get hungry.

I used to say that I would never be a stepdad, but now I step on my kids all the time… That’s a stepdad joke. They’re like dad jokes, but kids usually don’t like them as much.