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[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

PLAYERS: Be the best player FOR your team, not the best player ON your team.

- Make memories
- Sacrifice ME for WE
- Be a Connector on your team
- Accept and Thrive in your role
- Be a part of something bigger than yourself

Great Teammates make Great Teams.

[Drew Maddux @DrewMaddux]

Mental Toughness separates the Men from the Boys! 💪💯

“Mental toughness doesn't guarantee you'll win. But playing without it pretty much guarantees you won't.”

– Tim Grover

Talent plays ZERO role in how TOUGH you are!

Talent is given.

Toughness is decided.

It's a choice!

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

Fear stops many dreams before they ever get started. Fear that it won’t work out or that you aren’t good enough. Fear of what people will say. Stop letting fear make you live a life of regret. Speak life into yourself and others then go work hard to live the life of your dreams.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Want to BE on a Great Team?

BE a Great Teammate.

- BE on time
- BE trusting
- BE your best
- BE coachable
- BE an energy giver
- BE accountable to your team
- BE great at what you are good at

BE a LEADER!

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

“Life is difficult. You have to overcome adversity if you’re going to have a chance to be successful in your life. There can be no great victories in your life unless you overcome adversity. You can’t be a great competitor unless you overcome adversity,” Nick Saban

[FHSFalconFootball @falcon_fhs]

Good luck to @FrontierGbb tonight be. Attica! #gofalcons #falconfam

[Jon Beck @CoachJonBeck]

Life isn’t fair. Everyone fails. Everyone falls. Things don’t always go your way & life doesn’t hand out participation awards. But it does give you opportunities to keep going until you get it right. Don’t whine or complain. Don’t give up. Just get back up & keep getting back up!

[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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[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Kobe on Excellence.

Excellence is a way of life. It is a Habit.

The great ones are committed to the process. They work to create winning habits each and every day. These habits become who they are. Excellence follows.

Choose Excellence.

🎥 Kobe and Alabama Football

[Barstool Frontier @BarstoolFalcon]

run it back again? @falcon_fhs

[Frontier Volleyball @FalconVolley]

Good luck tonight @falcon_fhs 🏈🏈

[Frontier baseball @frontier_bb]

Vote for frontier senior Emma Segal

[Frontier baseball @frontier_bb]

Congratulations to @justin90_2004 for being named academic all state by the @IHSBCA Justin is the true definition of student athlete and his hard work has paid off! #FalconProud

[Frontier Volleyball @FalconVolley]

🚨PHYSICAL NIGHT🚨
Frontier Jr/Sr High School is hosting a Physical Night!

📅 July 25th, 2023
⏰ 3:00-7:00 pm
📍 Frontier Jr/Sr High (Commons)
💰 $40

[Frontier baseball @frontier_bb]

Frontier alumni @sailors_brooks playing for the aviators! #FalconProud

[Frontier baseball @frontier_bb]

That’s a wrap on GLWS ‘23! 4 days of awesome baseball and mostly good weather! Thank you @GLWorldSeries for allowing Frontier to be apart of this tournament! Congratulations to the players and coaches and I hope everyone enjoyed their time in Chalmers Indiana! See you next year!

[Frontier baseball @frontier_bb]

Good play by Jason Newton!!

[Frontier baseball @frontier_bb]

Good luck to Jason Newton in the GLWS championship today! Check out the isc YouTube for the live stream! #GoJason

[Frontier baseball @frontier_bb]

Final day of the GLWS! Ready for some good baseball and sleep! @GLWorldSeries

[Frontier baseball @frontier_bb]

Wrap on day number 3! Back at it again in the morning! @GLWorldSeries #FalconProud