Good morning Bulldog Nation!!!
"Nothing in the world can take the place of PERSISTENCE. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. PERSISTENCE and DETERMINATION alone are omnipotent.”
Calvin Coolidge
As of right now, we have arrived at soccer districts, are ONE week away from track districts, are TWO WEEKS away from golf districts, and THREE weeks away from most all state contests!!! There are only 20 calendar days left before the end of the school year and it is amazing how fast the spring season has gone.
May we ALL persist through these last few weeks of school here at NPHS and FINISH with a RESOLVE and DETERMINATION to put our best foot forward and give our best efforts for the students and staff we serve here at NPHS!!!
Here is to a wonderful week ahead and great accomplishments by our Bulldog students & coaches/sponsors!!!
FOUR BULLDOG FUNDAMENTALS
HARD WORK: I cannot say it enough for all of our programs here at NPHS...Hard Work Pays Off (HWPO). As we our spring seasons come to a close, may we not lose sight that it is the day to day discipline and grind that helps us to achieve at a high level. It is never the grand statements or one-time actions that produce high level results. On the contrary, it is the day in and day out effort that produces great results in what we do!
DETAILS/ORGANIZATION: Have a plan in place for everything you do within your program!!! Details matter to all the stakeholders involved!!! The more detailed and planned out you can be heading into the season, the more freedom it provides you to focus on other first dimension topics and give you the freedom to pursue second and third dimension strategies with your students and staff!
COMMUNICATION: Have a plan in place to continue to communicate at a high level with all stakeholders in your program. For the spring activities that are starting make sure you are making time to meet with your coaches/sponsors, students, and parents to clearly communicate expectations/rules/schedules for your respective activities. Let us finish strong in our consistency and clarity of communication to all the stakeholders around our program!
FOCUS ON PROCESS: As I have said all year, we want to focus on the process of improvement as we go through our respective seasons. When we focus on process goals instead of outcome or performance goals, we provide the room for our students and coaches/sponsors to FAIL and LEARN/GROW from those failures. We are coming to the point of the season where all the lessons and growth that have taken place along the way are to come to fruition and our teams and athletes should be placed in a position to PERFORM THEIR BEST down the stretch!!!
