Why is Good Body Language Important??
Listen to Jose Rijo-Berger talk about a player who got an offer on the game he went 0-4 and not the tournament he went 20-28🤯🗣️
#the108way
Well coached teams.
Play with tempo.
Back up bases.
Have an unselfish offensive approach.
Are great at situational hitting.
Make pitchers work to get them out.
Run balls out.
Take the extra base.
Take aggressive turns.
Line up correctly defensively.
Throw to the right place.
Play with class.
Play with energy.
Make the routine play look routine.
Know what to say and when to say it.
Play with moxie.
What else?
How fast you recover says more about you than how hard you fell.
I've been cut. I've been doubted. I've been written off more times than I can count.
And I've had moments — real ones — where the attitude slipped and the bitterness moved in before I could stop it.
The fall is not the end of the story.
It's just the part before the comeback.
Attitude is a choice.
Gratitude is a discipline.
Bitterness is expensive.
Nobody accidentally has a great attitude.
Nobody stumbles into gratitude.
And nobody means to end up bitter, it just quietly moves in when you stop choosing something better.
Guard your peace like it cost you something.
Because it did.
Most players don’t fail because they aren’t talented.
They fail because they never fully commit to the lifestyle.
⚾️ They want the results… without the loneliness.
⚾️ They want exposure… without the sacrifice.
⚾️ They want scholarships… without the discipline.
⚾️ They want to throw 90… but don’t want to live like someone chasing 90.
The truth?
The players who separate themselves usually aren’t doing anything “secret.”
They just:
• Show up every day
• Train when nobody is watching
• Recover seriously
• Sleep differently
• Eat differently
• Handle failure better
• Stay consistent longer
That’s it.
Everybody wants the dream. Very few are willing to become the person required to live it. 💯🙌
@readswithravi Curt Cignetti said, "In life - you got freedom of choice, but not freedom of consequence."
"First you form your habits, then your habits form you."
The small decisions you make daily - those become your habits.
Went to a HS game yesterday. Had a D1 coach come meet me there to watch a kid.
During the game, the team’s catcher would sprint to his position every inning.
He’s an underclassman, the D1 coach wasn’t there for him, he is now on that coaches radar.
Some things preached at every level -
▪️sprint to your spot between innings
▪️show off your arm in between innings
▪️serious throws in the INF/OF and as a catcher
You can be 0-3 and still make an impression
Laying out in stadium seats for a ricochet foul ball is the kind of energy and effort that fires up the boys everytime. Absolute gamer!!! I salute this dude🫡💪😂
Baseball is life in disguise. ⚾️
You fail more than you succeed.
You don’t always get what you deserve.
Some days you feel unstoppable…
Others, you can’t buy a hit.
But YOU keep showing up anyway.
That’s the lesson. 💯
I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize.
Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness.
Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding.
He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history.
The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future.
A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite.
That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.