Episode #266
Reframe youth sports around who children become—building long-haul attributes—rather than when they start or what they achieve.
Establish family boundaries and use sports as a tool for holistic development; skills can catch up, but missed character formation is hard to recover.
Esslinger left college coaching to found A Better Way, focusing on parent education and coach development; success depends on aligned inner circles, diligence, and patience.
But I think the question needs to be not when my kid should start, but who do I want my son or daughter to be when they finish?
Man, when you miss that opportunity of character formation, moral formation, emotional development, spiritual development in a child, it is hard to make it up later.
Our mission is simple, to restore the joy of sport for parents, coaches, and athletes.
Fear, Anxiety, Performance.
Heath Eslinger is a dynamic leader and communicator who has been changing lives for over two decades. His passion for individuals and organizations to simply evaluate their circumstances and do things “a better way” has become contagious. His experience as a successful Division I wrestling coach has given him a training ground to see what it really takes to get an organization to believe in a system, buy into a philosophy, and perform at a high level. This experience, coupled with a passionate ability to communicate, makes him a speaker that listeners love to hear.
In athletics specifically, Heath realized as a coach that many athletes, parents, coaches, and organizations were missing out on the true joy of the journey. Society has become so consumed with an immediate outcome that we have lost sight of the life lessons our journey teaches. “A Better Way” was developed to help parents, coaches, athletes, teams, and organizations get the most out of their journey by focusing on developing intrinsic qualities that will last a lifetime and carry you through some of life’s most difficult times.
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