2026-2027 FALL LESSONS

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FOUR SEASONS

Each season of the year (and of life) brings different challenges and rewards. Each season requires different types of work, and you have to be willing to do them all at the right time. When you do the work of all four seasons, you become the kind of person who can achieve your big goals and dreams again and again. The same is true for your team.
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PRESSURE PROOF

Too much pressure will weigh you down, but without any pressure, there's nothing to propel you forward. The key to pressure proofing yourself for competition isn't to eliminate pressure or stress completely. Instead, to be pressure proof is to find where your confidence lives, so you can own it.
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EXPECTATION VS REALITY

It’s not fair. Why is this happening to me? These are common thoughts when reality doesn’t meet up with your expectations. Common, but unhelpful. Life isn’t fair. Bad things happen to good people. Everyone makes mistakes. Even if you do everything right, you may still fail, but you have an opportunity to learn from this event and prepare for similar situations in the future. One method for seizing opportunities like this is the OODA Loop, originally developed by U.S. Air Force Col. John Boyd: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act

SEPT 2026

THE TEXAS WAY

SEPTEMBER CONTENT

Expected by August 20.
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SEPT: MACKEY MONTHLY

Mackey Monthly is Coach Mackey's exclusive monthly message for coaches and athletes using the 2Words Character Development Curriculum. It delivers timely leadership, character, and encouragement throughout the school year.

Delivery Expected by Aug 20!

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IT'S OK

After a loss or bad performance, one of the most common things people will say is: "It's OK." In that moment, it probably feels like it's anything but OK. Instead of rejecting this phrase because it doesn't feel true, challenge yourself to use it as motivation to make it true. Use “It's OK” as a trigger to prove to yourself that it really is going to be OK.

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HEART CHECK

What makes you want to quit when things get hard? What makes you choose to give up too early? In a lot of cases giving up is caused by heart failure. Not your literal heart, but figuratively. When you don't take care of your HEART, then you end up giving up on things that really matter to you. Regularly performing a Heart Check can help you stay in the game.

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AGAIN & AGAIN

What's the secret to success? What's the shortcut? There isn't one. The only secrets are widely known by the pros, and none of those "secrets" involve shortcuts. As any professional athlete can tell you: Success comes from doing the right things again and again. These are things like focusing on the fundamentals, seeing that the little things are the big things, and being willing to make mistakes along the way. You don't choose to do these things once, and then you're successful. You choose them again and again.
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OCT: MACKEY MONTHLY

Mackey Monthly is Coach Mackey's exclusive monthly message for coaches and athletes using the 2Words Character Development Curriculum. It delivers timely leadership, character, and encouragement throughout the school year.

Delivery Expected by Sept 20!

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FLUSH IT

While helping the baseball team at Cal State Fullerton learn to move on from mistakes, Dr. Ken Ravissa placed a toilet in the dugout. The idea was that after players made a mistake on the pitch, they would come back to the dugout and flush it away. It might sound silly, but this worked! The team performed significantly better after having the physical reminder to let go of their mistakes. Even if you don't have a toilet in the dugout, there are other ways to flush it after you make a mistake.

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GREAT TEAMMATE

To have great teammates, you need to be a great teammate. It's awesome to have great teammates when things are going right. But, you need great teammates the most when things are going wrong. That's because the things that those great teammates do help you to keep pushing forward, even on the hardest days.

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COMMITMENT COUNTS

We live in a culture that is quick to quit. It’s so easy to go through life with a “Free-Trial” mentality, where you never have to commit to anything. But commitment isn’t just a tool to be used to help achieve a goal or a stepping stone in your personal journey of more. Commitment is a willingness to bring your best work to a worst case scenario. When you do that, your commitment produces perseverance, growth, service, hard work, and execution.
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NOV: MACKEY MONTHLY

Mackey Monthly is Coach Mackey's exclusive monthly message for coaches and athletes using the 2Words Character Development Curriculum. It delivers timely leadership, character, and encouragement throughout the school year.

Delivery Expected by Oct 20!
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NOV: MACKEY MONTHLY

Mackey Monthly is Coach Mackey's exclusive monthly message for coaches and athletes using the 2Words Character Development Curriculum. It delivers timely leadership, character, and encouragement throughout the school year.

Delivery Expected by Oct 20!

Round out your semester with any of our Focus Themed Courses!

Choose any 4-lesson course to help your athletes develop a specific area of character and leadership. Each course is curated with intentional lessons centered on a single theme, giving coaches a practical way to reinforce the values their team needs most.

Every team faces different challenges. The Assist makes it easy to find the right lesson at the right time. Search across our library of 400+ lessons by topic, keyword, or area of focus, and quickly find content that speaks directly to what your athletes need most.

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Meet COACH MACKEY

Stephen Mackey, CEO & Founder

Stephen Mackey is a player development coach, keynote speaker, and Wall Street Journal best-selling author. Better known as Coach Mackey, he has spent the last 20+ years helping athletes and coaches connect the dots between sports and the game of life.

Mackey is the founder and CEO of 2Words Character Development, one of the top leadership and character curriculums in the country. He is an advocate for coaches and athletes, and a consistent voice of encouragement and challenge.

Mackey is the author of Uncommon Beliefs and co-author of The Locker Room. 

Visit Stephen Mackey's Zaap page for more ways to connect and follow Coach Mackey.

Text "Mackey" to (830) 444-4876 or click here to get Coach Mackey's weekly text encouragements.
Patrick Jones - Course author