Coach Matt Slaybaugh

I've written one book, scripted two dozen plays (and directed dozens more,) and spent twenty nights at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. I love to learn. It's what I most love about being a coach.

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24 Jan 2022

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Two Quick Questions for Exploring Your Mindset

Here's something for you if you want to make a change and you're not sure how to start.

21 Jan 2022

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T.S. Eliot on Resistance

"... each venture / Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate ..."

15 Jan 2022

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"Paul Valéry said: the opening line of a poem is like finding a fruit in the ground, a piece of fallen fruit you have never seen before, and the poet’s task is to create the tree from which such a fruit would fall."

– from Mary Ruefle’s Madness, Rack, and Honey

9 Jan 2022

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How to Make Art

Start small. Reach. Experiment. Repeat.

19 Dec 2021

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I Can't Write

I can’t write, this room is a mess.

1 Dec 2021

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Thanks for your feedback (Brené Brown)

Only true friends make the list.

4 Nov 2021

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What are Achievement Skills?

If you want to lift heavy weights, write poetry, run marathons, etc., you can apply these procedures.

10 Oct 2021

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Restlessness

It’s certainly not that I have nothing to do, though I’ll use that excuse. Rather, it’s some sort of boredom mixed with a lack of urgency and some nasty impatience mixed in.

30 Sep 2021

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Forgive easily.

When the work falls through.

11 Sep 2021

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Cause if you don’t wake up every morning thinking “How am I going to break shit today?” Then I don’t want your advice. If you don’t walk this earth hell-bent on leaving a mark. Then I don’t need your expertise. If you aren’t scraping at