The Courage To Succeed By Ruben Gonzalez

Book Report The book I choose to do my reading on was The Courage to Succeed by Ruben Gonzalez. In the book you will find out about Ruben’s dreams of becoming and Olympian, how he dealt will adversity, and how he was able to achieve his dreams. Ruben was born in Campana, Argentina and immigrated to the U.S. when he was about six years old. Starting his earlier child of in Argentina set him up to be a soccer fan and playing soccer as well. Ruben stats that when he was ten years old he watched the winter Olympics and it changed his life, all he would do is read and talk about the Olympics. That desire made him who he is today. That’s what as an inspiring coach as myself might find interesting because as an athlete myself I know what it took
You have to be willing to prepare to win.” (pg. 87, Gonzalez). I plan to incorporate this mind set into my athletes by finding ways to keep their interest and showing them what it takes to win and get them to taste victory and what to do whatever it takes to get them more wins. In the book Ruben also talks about how goals are very important and to be able to see them every day. He made a really good point about putting them on a mirror because your goals will be the first thing you look at in the morning so you start the day of thinking about your goals and when you go to bed the last thing you see is your goals so that you are thinking about them up until you fall asleep and even dream about them. As a coach I will have them list their top five goals as individuals and for the team. I will make copies of them so that we can look at them half way through the season and see where we stand and I will suggest the put them on the mirror or in their lockers. Also he mentions that you need to be crystal clear about your goals it helps you have a purpose if you just say I want to win state it’s not specific what wait how are you going to make it happen are you going to run more, what is running more look like three times a week or one more time a month? If you write down that you want to run additional three times a week at 6:15 in the morning for 25 minutes on the trend mill at level six Monday thru Wednesday, you are more likely to do so. I will
Here is a few of his questions “What are some of my greatest talents, what do others say I’m good at, and what do I daydream about?” (pg. 64, Gonzalez). I like the thought of this as a coach I would change it to fit wrestling like what is my best takedown or what do others say is your best move, and what is your favorite pinning combination. I believe it will give me a better look at the kids in the start of the season as to what they think they are good at and what they need to work on so that I know a base line for