Do The Little Things

Today, focus on doing the little things.

I had a coach in high school who constantly stressed doing the little things correctly, every single time. That was his mantra. Every day when we walked into the locker room, there was a phrase written on the board. At any point during practice, you could be asked what was written there, and if you didn’t know it, there was a consequence for the whole team.

As you can imagine, it stuck.

The first phrase of every season was always the same:
“Do the little things correctly every time.”

While it was written on the board on day one, it became the theme for the entire season. In basketball, the thinking was simple.