Mark Sanchez Practices Down The Freeway

By Mimi Donaldson | May 20, 2011

Can you develop to your fullest potential on your own? How much do you need a mentor or a coach? Right now, I’m speaking on Mentoring two times to two different clients two weeks in a row: one, a top Fortune 500 company, and the other, a prestigious association meeting. Why now so popular? I suspect it’s the economy . . . (fill in the blank)

With fewer people and the need to maximize the potential of each of them (there’s that pesky “do more with less” thing), we must insure people have the opportunity to develop to their fullest potential.

So what about these player-instigated unofficial football workouts with no coaches in sight? Yes, Drew Brees has got some of his guys together to “work out” in New Orleans; Mark Sanchez has some Jets down the freeway in Mission Viejo. They’re likely sweating up a storm, but can it really help the coming season? When you’re at the gym, do you push yourself like the trainer pushes you? I don’t—NO WAY!! Since we were little kids, and agreed to “do it for mommy (or daddy),” I believe it’s a human instinct to want to please someone we admire. It’s up to mom or dad to make it a swell habit—to grin at you and high-five, tell you they’re proud. In our family, the parents did such a seamless job, we thought when we pleased them, we pleased ourselves. . .how lucky we were, eh?

So, football players love coaches who are both “tough” and “fun to play for” says the newly-drafted rookie quarterback of the Niners. Tom Coughlin, head coach of the New York Giants, is “grateful” for the workouts his QB, Eli Manning, has organized, but Coughlin says it will hurt the season and team if they have no official off-season workouts, with coaches present. (sigh) We can only hope. .

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