focusing on improving areas in your performance that are not satisfactory.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. —Leonardo da Vinci

Don’t think about winning the SEC Championship. Don’t think about the national championship. Think about what you need to do in this drill, on this play, in this moment. That’s the process: Let’s think about what we can do today, the task at hand.

Jobs was famously fired from Apple before returning to reshape the entire tech industry; Walt Disney was fired from the Kansas City Star because he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas”; J. K. Rowling was fired from her job as a secretary before going on to become the world’s first and only billionaire author.

Because Katrín, more than anyone I’ve ever met or coached, has bought into the process. “The process” is a term that’s been popularized by University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban.

The personalities on those two teams will be different, but both teams will have the same thing in common: habits. Boring old habits. I know you want me to let you in on some big secret to success in the NBA. The secret is there is no secret. It’s just boring old habits.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. —Henry David Thoreau

If you don’t allow for that—if you don’t let yourself grieve for five minutes—it’ll haunt you; you won’t be able to shake it off.

Once those traits are developed, we can start to follow the process. When character and process are both in place, the results will take care of themselves.