This article by Bruce E. Brown of Proactive Coaching addresses how coaches can recover from devastating losses. Prompted by an email from a young Colorado coach struggling days after a tough defeat, it shares the Proactive Coaching team's response on keeping perspective, protecting family life, and using losses to grow, and closes with reflections on the real-life loss of speaking team member Tim Driver and a passage from Joseph Marshall III's book Keep Going.
Introduction
Anyone who has coached for more than a season has experienced one of those losses that stays with you. You are awake at night. You keep replaying situations or decisions that may have contributed to the outcome. You have a hard time letting go.
We had an email from a young coach in Colorado who described those exact sentiments about a loss his team had suffered after leading for almost the entire game. It happens every single day in the competitive arena.