Proud to announce I have committed to continue my baseball career at the University of Dayton! Thank you to all that have supported me during this process?
Every bitter man is a man afraid to be himself again. He's loving by default. Effortlessly joyful. But he let someone make him believe his true nature was actually a layer to remove. He spends his life improving when all he needed to do was just check himself back into the game
The best advice on how to be successful I’ve heard:
On Nick Saban’s radio show, a young athlete asked him a bold question.
What advice would the Alabama football coach give him – a basketball player – to improve in his sport?
Saban’s response is gold:
“I think for any athlete, it's the same thing. What's your goal? What's your aspiration? What do you want to accomplish? That's the first thing.
“Second thing is to define what it takes to do it. What does it entail for you to be the kind of basketball player that you want to be?
“Then you got to make the decision. Are you willing to do that? Are you willing to go work every day and do the things you need to do and take 500 shots a day like Kobe Bryant did so that you can be the kind of player that you want to be?
“And then do you have enough discipline to make yourself do it every day? Whether you feel like it or not.
“You got to choose to get up. You got to choose to study. You got to choose to go make the shots. You got to choose to work out. People that can do that, they can reach their full potential.
“If you choose to make that kind of commitment to it, you can do the same thing, but it's not going to just come to you. It's not going to come easy.
“And you're going to have to overcome a lot of adversity to be able to persevere and sustain it to get where you want to go.”
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It’s a beautiful response for sports, business and life.
Replace the young basketball player with yourself – investor, business owner, manager, teacher, whatever – and the same framework applies.
Some key takeaways:
1. Everything begins with a vision. What do you want to achieve?
2. Vision alone isn’t enough. You need a detailed plan of how to achieve it.
3. Commitment separates those who dream from those who do. Most people aren’t willing to do what it takes.
4. Daily execution is the hardest (and most valuable) part.
5. Feelings are irrelevant. You can do what needs to be done despite how you feel.
6. One day of effort is overrated. Daily effort is underrated.
7. Improvement is a lifelong process. Embrace it, cherish it, commit to it.
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"If you are not willing to repent through freely choosing to suffer, unsought sufferings will providentially be imposed on you." ~ St Thalassios the Libyan
Whoever retweeted my ultimate self-fulfillment post, start with this for now. Its my favorite piece Ive written thus far, and was published towards the end of my own journey. This should hold you over until I drop the full protocol
https://t.co/EaSlgwqPpd
This is a real place.
It's a village in the Netherlands called Bourtange (population: 430) built in and around an 18th century star fort.
How and why does it exist? That's where things get interesting...
I have a friend who frequently tells me stories about annoying things that his friends do. Some of those stories will make me wonder how he's able to put up with that, but he always has a grin on his face. Despite it, he'll just be like, "Yeah, but I still love him." Unsurprisingly, he's got one of the most loyal circles I've ever seen.
This is such an admirable trait that I wholeheartedly respect in others. At the end of the day, people are people. Barring something objectively evil, it's never that serious. Life is short. Enjoy your time together, make memories, and don't sweat the small stuff. Being too stringent with your expectations says more about your own internal inadequacies than theirs.