Miguel Escueta

New single #SummerDream out now! ☀️⚡️❤️‍🔥

[Miguel Escueta @TheMorningEpsds]

#SummerDream out tomorrow! Pre-save the song on Spotify via LINK IN BIO ☀️⚡️❤️‍🔥

[Miguel Escueta @TheMorningEpsds]

“SUMMER DREAM” coming this July ⚡️ But for now, feel free to listen, save and share! 🙌 https://t.co/lZBrxUaCuw

[Miguel Escueta @TheMorningEpsds]

So this came out of nowhere, but… new single dropping soon! #SummerDream

Felt great to be back in the lab. I forgot how therapeutic writing music can be and this really came at the perfect time.

Thank you to the team producing this track with me — Juni, Mik and Mateo 🙏

[The Driven Man @Thedrivenman]

Best Take on Gender Equality I’ve Heard 💯🙌

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😤

[Josiah Johnson @KingJosiah54]

Joker and the Nuggets waiting for the Lakers

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Clear offensive foul. Her whole body moved into the defender’s path

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

illegal screen called on UCONN on the most important possession of the game

agree with the call? 🤔 https://t.co/AxSji4diaq

[D'Angelo Russell @Dloading]

Bron Bron.

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MY GOODNESS KING JAMES 👑 #LakeShow

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D’LO ❄️

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

maturing is knowing that Lakers did the right thing by not trading D’Angelo Russell

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They’re making shots because the shot makers are on the floor

[The Lakers Review @TheLakersReview]

amazing how the team looks when they’re making shots. lol. world beaters.

[Immanuel Jaylen Quickley @IQ_GodSon]

These things move so fast, it’s crazy that I’m already on the road with my new family. But it wouldn’t be right to leave without saying a little something just to let y’all know that the love is mutual.

Thank you, New York. @PlayersTribune

https://t.co/k6pELyqdTa

[Lakers Legacy @LakersLegacyPod]

Lakers finally win!

A true miracle.

Darvin Ham coached w/ a little more competency & intuition tonight.

DLO returns and drops 13 & 6, including 11 huge points in the 2nd Half.

Lakers are 0-5 w/o DLO this season-

18-14 when DLO plays. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Mike Beckham @mikebeckhamsm]

I’m not crying, you’re crying

This is the most memorable 2 minutes you will spend today

[Miguel Escueta @TheMorningEpsds]

🐐

[Justin Su'a @Justinsua]

Novak Djokovic shares his thoughts on his mental strength, thinking, and studying his opponents:

▪️He gathers information by observing the behavior of his opponent.

▪️Mental strength is trained and comes with work.

▪️Conscience breathing helps him stay present in big moments.

▪️He doesn’t believe that anyone can be positive all the time and not experience fear — we are human.

▪️He has fears and doubts every match, he acknowledges it so he can bounce back and reset quickly.

(🎥 @60Minutes)

[Miguel Escueta @TheMorningEpsds]

Oh man KD got hit on the face 😵‍💫

[NBA @NBA]

A look at Keldon Johnson's game-winning steal and layup through the eyes of #PhantomCam 👀

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😅😅👑👑

[²³𝙻𝚎𝙱𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚜🏀☄️🌎💞 @BronGotGame]

KG shows high praise for LeBron’s elite longevity in the league

[²³𝙻𝚎𝙱𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚜🏀☄️🌎💞 @BronGotGame]

KG shows high praise for LeBron’s elite longevity in the league

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@SheaSerrano Nash Suns

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer.

He wasn't playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice.

Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.”

Coach replied,

“Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don't worry about what you're doing.”

Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you're going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.”

And then he recommended that Brady start meeting with Greg Harden, a sports psychologist who worked in Michigan's athletic department.

Brady went to Harden's office and whined, “I'm never going to get my chance. They're only giving me 2 reps.”

Harden simply replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.”

“So that's what I did,” Brady said. “They'd put me in for those 2 reps, man, I'd sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. 'Let's go boys! Here we go! What play we got?'”

“And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.”

Soon, it went from getting 2 reps to getting 4 reps. Then from 4 to 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, with this new mindset that Greg instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it's the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.”

Takeaway 1:

Greg Harden telling Brady to just focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

“People come to me all the time and tell me they're stuck,” Cuban explained. “They're stuck in a job they don't like. They're stuck working for a boss they don't like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.”

“I just tell them, 'Be great.'”

“The reality of life is that you can't just always quit your job. You can't just always go to your boss and say, 'Give me the promotion, or I'm out of here.'” You can't just always go to your coach and say, 'Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.'

“So when you're stuck, you've gotta find it within yourself to say, 'Ok, this is where I am. And if I'm going to be here, I'm going to be great.'

Because if you're great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.”

Takeaway 2:

I've written before about “lead measures”—the actions and behaviors that predictably drive success.

The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) write, is that “a lead measure is influenceable; it can be directly influenced by you.”

To achieve your goals, they recommend (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), apply a disproportionate energy to the things that are in your control.

Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did, that’s what drove his success.

In his first media call after he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?”

Brady said he was aware of that. “And I know he’s a heck of a player,” Brady said. “But I’ve always really concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.”

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“I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady

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[Dr. Robert Klapper @DrRobertKlapper]

#Lakers. Coach wooden said it best for this season…..
Failing to Prepare is Preparing to Fail