Sept. 14, 2023

The Ride To The Rink - The Impact of Deliberate Positivity in Team Dynamics

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Ever thought about the power of your smile as you enter the rink, or how your simple hello to a teammate can change the atmosphere around you? Mike dives into the concept of deliberate positivity and the profound impact it can have on your team dynamics. We explore the ripple effect of small gestures like a smile or an engaged conversation, and how these can create a positive force that is both beneficial for your mindset and incredibly contagious.

We also discuss the importance of standing up for your teammates and advocating for their viewpoints. This aspect of deliberate positivity is often overlooked, yet it carries the potential to alter the trajectory of your interactions with your teammates both in and out of the locker room. Listen in and discover how your intentional actions can set off a wave of positivity that sweeps across your team. Remember, your journey to becoming a more engaged, passionate, and positively infectious athlete starts with a smile.

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Today's ride to the rink.

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I wanted to discuss some deliberate positivity, something that you can do.

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We talk about it.

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I know Lee talks about it.

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Our friends that we have on often talk about being a deliberate and passionate and engaged athlete, and one of the things we can do is have this.

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Deliberate positivity is some of the ways I describe this as sending it.

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You want to send this every day.

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You want to send a message every time you come to the rink that you're there to be a positive force in and around your teammates and your coaches and yourself.

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You want to create that positive force.

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I think so.

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We can do deliberate things right to have deliberate positivity.

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Number one when we walk into the rink, we can instantly smile.

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We can add a smile to our face just by smiling.

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We know for a fact it's going to set you in the right rotation and the right motivation and it's going to also give you the opportunity that people around you see you're smiling.

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It's contagious.

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You start to smile.

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It's going to help really, the minute you walk in the rink and your coaches are going to see it, your teammates are going to see it, your parents are going to see it.

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Get to the rink.

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Be smiling Number one in that sending.

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If you're going to send it today, make sure you're engaged.

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Don't go in the locker room and put your headphones on and look at your phone and just not talk to anybody.

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Engage with your coaches.

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Say hello, how was your day.

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Don't wait for the coach to always ask you how your day was.

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Ask your teammates what they did today, even if you're on Snapchat with them all day or Instagram and you see their posts.

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Engage with them as a human being.

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Go in there, engage, smile and try to again bring up deliberate positivity into your practice.

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Another thing we got to do is we got to be nice.

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We got.

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If somebody needs tape, if somebody needs help, if somebody is late, if somebody is looks distressed in the locker room, go out of your way to be nice today when you go into that locker room, just be nice.

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Think about the Zamboni driver, the person cleaning up the locker room, the person greeting you with the rink, the person holding a door, not holding a door.

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Try to be nice when you walk into the rink.

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That's going to help you have some deliberate positivity today and I think one of the pieces that goes overlooked, I think, is defend.

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It's so hard depending on if you're a teenager or 12-view player it's so hard to defend teammates and defend their point of view.

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And defend somebody else in the locker room that may be getting picked on or bullied.

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Go out there, have deliberate positivity today, but defend your teammates.

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And I don't mean have a fight, I mean stick up for them and help them through difficult times and making sure that they're engaged with you.

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So positive, deliberate positivity smile, engage, be nice and defend your teammates.

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Just those little things you can do today.

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And maybe that's contagious and maybe that will keep going on every time you come to the rink, but if you deliberately do this, it could change the course of the way you are with your teammates in the locker room.