Practice Notes is a small, quiet space.
These are short writings on attention and failure, love and discipline, grief and beauty — on the slow, reflective work of becoming more fully human.
The name comes from something simple: practice is where life is shaped. Not in outcomes or applause, but in repetition. In return. In the oft-unnoticed moments that shape us.
Though much of my life has unfolded in and around sport, these notes lean toward life itself — toward what pressure reveals, what love asks, and what steadiness requires. They are not arguments or essays. They are fragments. Observations. Things felt and written down before they disappear.
I’ve spent much of my life coaching, teaching, and learning — from athletes, children, colleagues, and those I love.
Over time, my attention shifted. Less toward achievement alone, more toward presence. Less toward winning, more toward growth. I became interested in how people recover, how they regulate themselves when the moment tightens, how they lead with quiet steadiness.
What appears here was not invented. It was absorbed — and lived. From teachers, coaches, family, and friends. From love and loss. From long walks and songs that took root. From books that moved me, and the authors who imagined them. And from staring at the stars on warm summer nights.
I’m the author of The Why of Sports: Finding Meaning, Presence, and Purpose in the Game and Beyond, and the founder of Integrative Coaching.
But here, I’m simply practicing.
Paying attention. Writing things down. Trying, imperfectly, to live with heart.