Derrick Williams

Dad. Basketball Coach. Strength training professional. My goal is to help others be different, better and exceptional.

[Derrick Williams @Dkwill16]

You can work hard or you can work long.

There's no such thing as a long hard workout.

Want to spend less time in the gym and get better results?

Let's connect. Ask me anything!

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I've worked with @PGCbasketball for 5 years, helping thousands of athletes with player development.
Ask me anything!

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Going to bed by 9pm changed everything:

→ Wake up before my alarm, no rush
→ Mind is clear, decisions feel easier
→ Helps change body composition
→ up by 5:30 am, more hours to get ahead of your competitors

Getting to bed early isn't lazy.

It's a competive advantage.

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How to Operationalize Your Emotions So They Stop Controlling You

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How to Get Better at YouTube

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Alex Hormozi explains how to operationalize gratitude.

"Gratitude comes from imagining a terrible thing and then removing that thing that was terrible. That is gratitude. How do you operationalize gratitude? Imagine something terrible and then remember that that terrible thing has not occurred."

"It could be worse. You're not dead. The fact that you're alive is living proof that you can endure it. And the day that something kills you, you won't have to anymore. Your life every day exists as evidence that you can handle everything that has come your way."

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At the 🛫 on my way to Tampa. Year 5 as basketball instructor @PGCbasketball, one of the top basketball IQ focused basketball camps in thw world.

Excited to get back on the court and classrooms!!

If you could learn one thing to improve basketball IQ, what would it be?

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Vanilla protein shake is insanely good. A great breakfast to start your day!

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Alex Hormozi argues that your downside is almost entirely made up in your head.

"So many lives would transform overnight if they realized: my life sucks, I have nothing going for me really means I have nothing to lose. And that makes you a very dangerous person. You can flip the fact that you have nothing going for you with you have nothing to lose. That means you can take lots of risks very quickly and end up in the exact same position you are."

"Shame only exists in the shadows. Once you put it in the light, you realize just how irrational it is."

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Alex Hormozi explains why action alleviates anxiety.

"Action alleviates anxiety. The only thing I could control was that I would work, that I would get better. The key point there was that it wasn't just working for work's sake. It was working with the intention to improve."

"I paid for a mastermind for gym owners before owning a gym. Why would I start a gym until I learn all the stuff that you guys did wrong? I'll just learn from all y'all's mistakes. It sounds like a great deal for me. It almost felt unfair."

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Alex Hormozi explains why your tolerance for B players collapses.

"I remember hiring my first $50,000 a year employee and I was like, holy shit, this is what talent looks like. And then I hired my first $75,000 employee and I was like, oh my god, 50 is nothing."

"You can judge the level of the talent by how general my directives are to the person. Someone can just say, hey Alex, can you just build out acquisition for this business? And I would say, sure. So you can tell how advanced someone is by how many directives you have to give."

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Alex Hormozi lays out the two skills he's training right now.

"A big focus of mine is trying to standardize the rules that govern reinforcement across an organization that scales. The culture is a thousand unspoken rules and that's why it takes people time to learn and figure out what the culture is when they go somewhere new."

"Rather than how can the organization meet my demands, it should be how can I let my skills meet the demands of the existing business. It's asking reality to meet you where you're at rather than meeting reality where it is."

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Alex Hormozi argues your excuse is the reason to do the thing.

"Whatever the reason they say is just say and that's the perfect reason you should do this. They're like, 'I can't sign up for this weight loss program because my husband doesn't support me.' You're like, 'The reason that you should sign up for this weight loss program is because your husband doesn't support you'"

"Learning is same condition, new behavior. Intelligence is rate of learning. It's a speed"

"A lot of you here, I'm looking at you, think you're really smart, but you go back home to the same condition and you do the exact same thing. So how smart are you?"

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Alex Hormozi argues productivity is just removing what isn't work.

"My office has no outside light. I try to minimize all the sound in the office. I also put on earplugs and headphones. There's a great app you can use that blocks your phone so nothing can get through, including text, phone calls, slacks, everything"

"Anything that is not the work distracts you from the work"

"Few people actually work faster. You just don't work when you want to be working. So if you just limit all the time that you're not working when you want to be working, you work a lot more"

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Get your mind right to grind right💪🏾

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Alex Hormozi tells a fitness coach he doesn't look the part yet.

"You have to like look in the mirror quite literally and be like, do I have a body that people aspire to have? I told this particular individual, I said, you got to go pro man. If you want to be a professional, you got to look like this is what you do, like full time, like this is not negotiable."

"In the fitness world, I would make my CTAs around personalization and accountability. That's the number one and two things that people want when they're trying to lose weight. They wanna be personalized to them and they want accountability. What can someone not get from free internet content?"

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You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than your current results.

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Bad times will come to an end. Just as good times will come to an end.

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If people have to coach your effort, you will not be able to get past the level of average.

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I never regretted doing it.

I only regretted not doing it.

Says every winner.