Advancing Daily
Through
High School
This is where it all began. High School is a unique time; it's filled with many new experiences, challenges, opportunities, and pressures. If you play your cards right, you'll graduate having chosen a college, maybe selected a major and hopefully have a couple of scholarships in hand.
I mean, right?
What if there's something even more critical to take away? What if that something will go with you for the rest of your life, equipping you with skills that go beyond cramming for a multiple choice exam or acing the SAT? What if these skills allowed you to have confidence that you are prepared and ready for the future, whether that is college, trade school, internships, or starting your own business?
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It turns out that the most critical skills that a high school student can learn are the Advancing Daily skills. The skills that prepare your student to have direction and take the steps towards those goals.
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Sadly, the average teen spends around 9 hours per day consuming media. This particular study didn't stipulate but I think we can assume that most of those hours were not taking master classes on personal finance. The reality is that our world is filled with stimulation and it is incredibly easy to become distracted and end up drowning in Netflix, social media, video games, YouTube, the list goes on.
There is one thing that brings out passion in many students: sports. In the US, approximately 55% of 7-12th grade students will participate in sports. Sports are an incredible opportunity for young adults, and not just for the obvious reasons like health, teamwork, and discipline. The truth is that is only the beginning.
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Sports allow a unique opportunity for engaged exposure to critical life-skills like stress management, confidence, goal setting, dealing with fear and failure to name just a few.
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I was blessed enough to have these opportunities with sports during my formative years. Later, I realized the potential that a supplemental personal development program could have. I spent 3 years developing the Advancing Daily High School program to supplement the day-to-day practice schedule with a sports development program that goes beyond the training that every other team in the conference is doing.
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Better Athlete, Better Student, Better Person
The Advancing Daily Through High School program focuses on four categories of content: Physical, People, Process, and Mental Game. The physical component goes beyond the typical training program and communicates key lessons in proper recovery, nutrition, sleep, and time management—the requirements to allow athletes to respond in the best possible way to training. People content covers interaction with teammates, coaches, peers, and parents. The process component covers things like criticism, failure, discipline, success, and goal setting. Lastly, mental game helps athletes manage pressure, stress, negativity, fear, and confidence.
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The result? Improvement as an athlete, as a student, and as a person.