Jason Wasser, LMFT 🎗️Founder, Shevet Collective · Therapy & Coaching for Entrepreneurs, Family Businesses 🖥 Certified Neuro Emotional Technique Practitioner Founder Shevet Collective 🎧Host:You Winning Life Podcast 🎤

"Play Offense At All Times" You Winning Life Podcast with Jason Wasser Ep. 58 Coach Dana Cavalea

12 Sept 2020 · 2 min

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In this segment of the You Winning Life Podcast, host Jason Wasser and guest Coach Dana Cavalea discuss a proactive leadership philosophy centered on always playing offense. Cavalea explains that adopting a defensive posture hinders progress, and instead he visualizes a straight line from the current position to the desired goal. Any deviation from that line is seen as an obstacle. He emphasizes the importance of identifying opportunities even amid opposition and reinforcing the team’s shared direction. By maintaining collective focus and refusing to be swayed by external pressures or limited resources, the group can move together toward its chosen destination, whether in sports, business, or other endeavors.

By going there together collectively as a group, we win.
How can we pivot and accept that right now when resources around us might not be as accessible, where safety on multiple levels for multiple people is a threat? How do we best internalize that and then play with that and apply it.
Yeah, so, so one of my other, you know, sayings is you got to play offense at all times. So I don't believe getting in, getting into a defensive posture helps you, right? So the way I always see things, I always look at things in, in lines. There's a line from where I am to where I want to go. There's a line from where we are, me and my team, and where we want to go, right? So anything that takes us off that line is, is an issue. So I talk a lot about, even in times of opposition, what is the opportunity that we see. And as a leader, as a, as a part of being a part of a team, it's your job, I've always found, to reinforce what our opportunity is, what it is we're moving towards, and doing your best to not let the outside influence that directionality. And by going there together collectively as a group, we win because that's what we as a group have decided on is where we're going. And that's the way I, that's the way I look at it in sports and business. And I don't ever change based on what's happening or what I'm told to think or what's being pushed upon because I've decided with myself, my group, my team and as our little family, that this is where we're going.