Happy birthday to Mr. Billy Mills who is 88 years young today. The Olympic gold medal winner in the 10,000m run at the 1964 Olympic games in Tokyo.
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As an Athletic Director, I constantly remind our athletes to embrace hard and embrace adversity because it is coming whether you want it or not.
Life does not promise comfort. It promises challenges. The athletes who grow the most are not the ones who avoid difficult moments, but the ones who face them head on.
Hard builds discipline. Adversity builds character. Failure builds resilience. Those lessons will carry you much further than any trophy, scholarship, or championship ever could.
Don’t run from the struggle. Lean into it. The person you become through adversity is far more valuable than the success you achieve because of it.
Clark Lea shares what the real cost of success is.
"We all as humans want the results now."
"Most people - their tolerance level for suffering, sacrifice, struggle - only goes so far as they're rewarded for it."
"It's challenging when you know you're putting effort in but not seeing the results."
Success requires hard work, patience, and consistency. It means having faith in the process and delayed gratification.
"We've asked for a high level of suffering, sacrifice, and struggle from our players and staff."
"The beauty of it is - we haven't deviated from that ask. That's what we call our team into every day."
The results will come. But only if you stay in it long enough.
Success requires sacrifice and struggle because you can't get where you want without breaking past your current limits.
(🎥 D1 Training)
You don’t become mentally tough by simply reading books or watching inspirational videos. You have to apply what you learn and push yourself through difficult situations in order to truly build mental toughness.
Becky Hammon shares what resilience really means - and why the hard parts are necessary.
"Being resilient is both a character trait and a learned skill."
"The tough part about being resilient is that you can only develop this skill through going through hard stuff."
You can't build resilience in comfort. It only comes through the struggle.
"The amount of times I heard no or had a door shut - was the amount of times I was gonna climb through a chimney or a window. I was gonna bust through something to get to where I needed to go."
"Pressing on became an integral part of my story."
Then she said the line that says it all:
"I wouldn't change the hard parts. Because the hard parts were necessary to build the strength needed for whatever challenge was coming."
Don't run from hard. Embrace the adversity because it's building something in you.
Every setback and challenge is preparing you for what's next.
(🎥 Basketball Hall of Fame)
To perform well under pressure, you need to forget about winning and losing, and just focus on giving your best effort and having fun in the present moment!
Nothing great in life comes easy, and nothing that comes easy is great. Some of our happiest moments come from stepping out of our comfort zone and striving for greatness.