“To be successful at anything, you don’t have to be special. You just have to be what most people aren’t: consistent, determined and willing to work for it. No shortcuts.”
— Tom Brady
Kobe's speech to @AlabamaFTBL in 2016 will always be legendary and packed with timeless wisdom for leaders:
🐍 Edit your life. If your habits, relationships, routines, or distractions don't align with who you say you want to become, ELIMINATE THEM. Simple as that. That clarity will help you create commitment in your life.
🎥 Excellence begins with curiosity. You have passion to learn but you have to stoke it like a fire in order to grow. The separation isn't talent, it's the willingness to OBSESS over details others overlook. Kobe didn’t watch film just to confirm what happened. He watched to uncover what could happen. He was feeding his curiousity. What if the defense adjusts? What if the first option gets taken away? What counter exists after the counter? Anticipate, prepare, and think multiple moves ahead.
⚡ Excellence isn't an event, it's an identity. Kobe believed coasting against weaker competition only creates bad habits because standards don't change based on the opponent. If you want to perform at an elite level when it matters most, you have to practice excellence when nobody's watching.
Everybody wants to be the beast, but not everybody wants to do what the beast does. Fall in love with the process, because the habits you repeat eventually become the person you are. 🐻
Cam Newton left Yung Miami SPEECHLESS after giving her a brutal reality check about how much harder a man’s life is compared to a woman’s, explaining that everyone expects a man to protect & provide and no one feels bad for a broke man 😮👀
“Society doesn’t feel sorry for the man. Society can feel sorry for a woman… I got 9 kids, you think they care about if I feel good or not?… we gotta compartmentalize naturally because nobody cares.”
Grant Hill shares what his mother taught him about living with purpose and why values are verbs.
"Number 7 on her set of principles reads: 'Don't be a passenger in life.'"
"She knew that values aren't ideas. Values are verbs."
Character comes from what you do and what you do consistently.
Then he broke it down:
1. "To respect means that we give others grace even if we disagree."
2. "To include means that we pull more chairs up to the table. We don't fear different voices."
3. "To excel means doing the work not just talking about the standards."
Values without action are just words on a wall.
It doesn't matter what you say, it matters what you do and how you live.
Choose to take ownership of what you do and don't just watch by as a passenger.
(🎥 Duke)
When some turn to talking🎙️, always make discipline your decision. The actions you carry out on a daily basis will always speak much louder than words🗣️