JAKOB'S JOURNAL

The MYC Study | Alan Stein Jr.

July 18th, 2018

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This week’s episode of The Master Your Craft Study is with Alan Stein Jr. Alan is a performance coach, consultant, speaker and author. Formerly, he was the performance coach at Dematha High School where he gained notoriety for his training programs with the basketball team. He spent 15 years working with some of the best talent on the planet, including several NBA all-stars. Now, Alan teaches us how to utilize the same strategies in business that elite athletes use to perform at a world-class level. (more…)
The MYC Study – Jason Eaker

July 10th, 2018
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This week’s episode of The Master Your Craft Study is with Jason Eaker, Head Coach at Oklahoma Baptist University (OBU).

Jason talks about:
- Energy, where does he get it from?
- Purpose
- The journey to becoming a head coach
- Seth Curry’s never quit attitude
- Langston Hall, the best player he’s ever coached
- Obsession and a one-track-mind
- Youtube is a great resource for athletes
- Adversity is a constant
- Waking Thought: “It’s not about you.”
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The MYC Study – Jamie Quarles

June 24th, 2018
This week’s episode of The Master Your Craft Study is with Jamie Quarles, assistant coach for the University of Buffalo basketball team. Last year, Buffalo upset #4 Arizona in the NCAA tournament, who boasted the first overall NBA draft pick DeAndre Ayton. Follow the link below to check out what he had to say.

Jamie talks about:
- The NCAA tournament win
- Leadership roles on their Buffalo team
- His personal coaching journey
- Characteristics that make an athlete ‘great’,
- and so much more.
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Honeymoon to Ireland (2018) – I think we did it right

June 22nd, 2018

Only read this post if you love Ireland or you plan to visit there. It’s long-winded, and it goes into detail on what we did so that you might better plan your trip there.

To my regular blog post readers: this is unorthodox. Certainly, I am not a travel blogger, else you’d only get a blog update about once every 4 years.

I wrote this because I had numerous people that reached out to me about their own trips to Ireland coming up, and I thought it better to write it well, write it once, and be able to send them a link rather than spend an hour telling 20 different people about our experience. It also turned into somewhat of a memoir piece for Jamie (my wife) and I.

I hope this helps you on your trip! Share it with your friends if they plan to visit, and if there are questions, ask in the comments! (more…)
Time or Money?

June 11th, 2018

What sort of value are we providing to our personal relationships?

Take for example, the father who pays $100/week to send his son to a top-notch baseball trainer. That father might make the assumption that his investment in his child is a valuable gift, but in what way?

There is value in that experience, specific to sports skills, but the financial investment by the father adds only abstract value to the relationship that he has with his son. No matter how much it costs, it’s merely a money-gift, and the recipient can’t always quantify that.

Take now, the father who spends 2 hrs/week playing catch with his son in their yard instead. The relationship value added here is not abstract. (more…)