You’ve probably already lived some version of this: getting cut from a team, getting hurt at the wrong time, or stuck playing for a coach who doesn’t seem to like you. Almost nobody prepares you for it. That gap is exactly what the third book in the NRF Mental Game Library was built to close for you.
What it’s about
How to Deal With Adversity On and Off the Field isn’t about avoiding hard moments — it’s about what you do the day after one hits you. Getting cut. Getting hurt. A bad relationship with a coach. A season that isn’t going the way you pictured it. This book treats all of it as a skill you can actually train, not just something you’re supposed to “be tough” about and never talk through.
What’s inside for you
- The same kick-return mistake from my first-ever game in that role, this time through the lens of showing up again after it — not just resetting for the next play.
- A chapter built from two combat deployments, on showing up to a hard job again and again regardless of how yesterday went.
- What it actually took for me to grow up undersized, and the extra work that closed the gap by senior year.
- The Mexico practice field, the injuries that came with it, and the same caution this whole series carries: know the difference between pain and real injury, and let your coach or medical staff make that call, not you alone.
Who this is for
You, if you’re in the middle of a hard stretch right now — a demotion, an injury, a coach you’re struggling to connect with. You, if you’re a coach who wants a resource to hand a kid who’s spiraling after a setback instead of just telling him to “shake it off.”
Get How to Deal With Adversity On and Off the Field — instant PDF download, $7.99.
— Coach Fern