Lauren Goode

Stonehill College ‘22

[Merrimack Baseball @MerrimackBSB]

WARRIORS WITHIN ONE!!!

Chris Goode brings in another two runs!!

7-6 MAR | Bottom 5

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#GoMack

[New England Patriots @Patriots]

ONE MORE TIME FOR THE WARRIORS.

[Merrimack Baseball @MerrimackBSB]

HE HIT IT OFF THE LOUNGE ROOF!

Chris Goode with a NO DOUBTER to start their half of the fourth. Goode's seventh of the season and Merrimack has built a three run lead.

4-1 MC | Bot 4th

#GoMack

[Merrimack Baseball @MerrimackBSB]

HE’S JUST TOO GOODE FOR YOU!

Chris Goode with a NUKE to deep left field. The three run shot makes it a five run 8th inning for Merrimack.

8-5 MC | Bot 8th

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[Lauren Goode @lsg222]

@DanGoode747 @SavageSports_ 😂😂

[Franklin High School Baseball, MA @FHSCoachZBrown]

🚨 Franklin HS ⚾️ Alum Spotlight 🚨

Have a day FHS alums Chris Goode (@ChrisG0ode21) & Alex Haba (@Ahaba2028)! Goode went 2-4 w/ a HR 💣, 2 runs scored & 2 RBI! Haba went 2-5 w/ a run scored! Stay 🔥!

#PantherPride #AlwaysAPanther

[Kenny Chesney @kennychesney]

Taylor, I knew looking in your eyes that first time on stage with us, you had “it.” The hunger, that something special… A gift not everyone has to connect. It’s been awesome watching you shine! Congratulations on being @TIME’s Person of the Year. I’m glad TIME sees what I’ve always loved about your music, your art & you as a human being. I’m so proud of you & I love you.

[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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Franklin Post 75 walks off with second consecutive Massachusetts American Legion championship https://t.co/CTW3fakDq2

[Varun Desai @editorvar]

@ChrisG0ode21 Home Run

[Lauren Goode @lsg222]

@donnagoode Yay Ev!💙

[Franklin High School Baseball, MA @FHSCoachZBrown]

Congrats to FHS alum & true freshmen OF Chris Goode (@ChrisG0ode21) on his first collegiate hit! First of many for Goode! Best of luck, Chris! #PantherPride #AlwaysAPanther

[Franklin High School Baseball, MA @FHSCoachZBrown]

Congrats to FHS’22 OF Capt. Chris Goode (@ChrisG0ode21), FHS’22 LHP Capt. Jacob Jette (@Jacobjette_) & FHS’23 RHP Alfred Mucciarone (@AMucci11) on being named 2022 Boston Herald All-Scholastics! #PantherPride

[HockomockSports @HockomockSports]

2022 Hockomock League Baseball All Stars - https://t.co/9bB0U3pigU #hockomock

[Donna Goode @donnagoode]

Hard to believe tonite is their last HS game 😭😭😭💙⚾️. Let’s go boys!!! Bring home the CHAMPIONSHIP

[Matt Feld @mattyfeld612]

Franklin baseball since 2018:
. 77-13 (.856)
. Three league championships
. State championship
. Three #1 Tournament seeds
. Four 'Elite eight' aka state quarter final appearances

[Matt Feld @mattyfeld612]

Chris Goode serves an 0-2 breaking ball to LF for a two out RBI single.

Third breaking ball in a row and Goode was ready for it
2-2 bottom 3

[Franklin High School Baseball, MA @FHSCoachZBrown]

Franklin 16, KP 5 (6inn). WP-Mucciarone (5inn, 7Ks, 0BB). Offensively, Gerety (4-4, 2B, 4R & 2RBI), Goode (2-4, 2B, 3B, R & 4RBI), Raider (2B, 3RBI), Lyons (1-3, 2B, 2R & RBI), Chin (2-4, 2B, R & RBI), Jarosz (2-4, 2R & RBI) & Tirrell (1-2, 2RBI). Kelley-Rex Hock Champions 🏆 🥇

[CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 @CBSSunday]

Watching 8-yo Chloe Grimes hit liners and throw heat, you'd never guess the young ball player is also fighting cancer, and has been, off and on, since she was two. Her grit proved an inspiration to her favorite player on the Tampa Bay Rays, Brett Phillips.