Today’s message is especially dedicated to all the great business professionals of LEEEP.
Last night I gave a talk and team building session to LEEEP at Princeton University’s Football Stadium. We discussed success, motivation, adding value and making a difference.
I asked if anyone knew what TEAM stood for.
TEAM – Together Everyone Achieves More
as long as there is a…
Total Effort from All Members.
We are all on a team. A sports team. A business team. A relationship team. An academic team.
If you focus on giving your all, no matter what, the team is better for it.
The goal is to have all members of your team go all-out. But if that is not reality, why don’t you take charge – lead by example? You may be pleasantly surprised.
I want to give you tips on how to reach peak performance.
I want to help you become more mentally tough.
BUT…
The thing that I want to give you most is HOPE.
If you don’t have HOPE, you don’t have anything.
HOPE stands for Hold On Possibilities Exist.
If what you are doing isn’t getting you the results you want, try a different approach. There isn’t one way, but many.
I always tell my students, every strategy works against someone. No strategy works against everyone.
Stay optimistic.
Stick with it.
Do whatever it takes.
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Then I guess this is the word’s longest blog entry with 10,000 words. Enjoy!
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
-VINCE LOMBARDI
I know something about you.
You don’t always get what you want.
Why?
Because you don’t make things important enough.
If something is important, you make time for it.
If you want to quit smoking and you say, “I should quit smoking,” you probably won’t.
What if you smoked a cigarette today and knew you would get lung cancer tomorrow, would you do it?
Of course not.
What if you were a smoker and were diagnosed with lung cancer, could you quit?
Of course.
How great do you want to be?
Success is often determined by desire.
How important is it for you to practice?
How important is it for you to eat healthy?
How important is it to spend time with loved ones?
Choose wisely.
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Today’s message is especially dedicated to the great Shari Koretsky.
Tennis players need to expand on their positive thoughts and cut down on their negative thoughts.
I have worked with some of the top juniors in the country and one thing I have noticed is that they all have good strokes. When they are playing well, they look like future champions. But when things start going wrong, most of these elite athletes get negative, VERY negative. They yell at themselves, smash their racquets against the ground and have terrible body language.
They have this voice inside their head. We all do. And if you’re asking yourself, “Do I have a voice inside my head?”…that’s the voice I’m talking about.
The key is to make that voice positive. Pump yourself up or make adjustments if you’re not getting the results you want.
Focus on what you want to happen. Focus on being your own coach. And focus on attitude and effort.
I am currently working with several high-level athletes on their mental toughness and they are all improving. A few of them have even gotten compliments from other parents, coaches and umpires on their improved attitudes.
For the most part, we create our lives. We choose how we react to certain situations.
But the question is, will we choose to be positive or negative?
Leave your comments below…
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Today’s message is especially dedicated to the great Eric Tecce.
Goethe once said, “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is; treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
Think about how you treat yourself.
Think about how you treat others.
Many years ago, at a school in England, there was a computer glitch. It classified a class of gifted students as below average and it classified a class of below average students as gifted.
Five months later, the error was found.
But the most amazing discovery was after they tested the students.
The gifted students (who were classified as below average) had significantly lower IQ scores.
The below average students (who were classified as gifted) had significantly higher IQ scores.
Interesting.
What does this mean?
As an athlete, coach, teacher or parent, we should always assume that greatness is attainable.
Because it is.
Remember Henry Ford…
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, either way, you’re right.”
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I’ve seen many amazing things in sports, but on May 26, 2010, I experienced the most amazing thing…well, almost.
I was selected to interview a player at the Mrs. G’s Very Important Blogger event at the New York Yankees Double-A affiliate, Trenton Thunder game. Little did I know, it turned out to be one of the Yankees’ top prospects, Brandon Laird.
We had a great conversation before the game in the hallway, next to the clubhouse, underneath the stadium. To checkout highlights and a video, click HERE. Laird then proceeded to hit for the cycle (single, double, triple, home run), with a walk-off home run with two outs, to win the game. It was only the second time someone hit for the cycle in franchise history. The reason why it was “almost” the most amazing thing I have experienced in sports was because I left when the game was still tied, 5-5. (I know, shame on me).
Well, this past Saturday night, amidst a whirlwind Special Olympics Summer Games weekend, I headed back over to the stadium, on, ironically, Special Olympics night. I again spent some time with Laird before the game.
When we were talking back on 5/26, I asked him what his best home run he ever hit was, and he said it was in a playoff game in high school.
The first thing Brandon said to me this past Saturday night was, “Remember last time you asked me what my best home run was? It was the night we spoke, when I hit for the cycle.”
We had another great conversation about success and mental toughness. He talk about his new routine and I asked the million-dollar question…
“What do you do when you don’t feel like doing your routine?”
“I just suck it up and do it anyway.”
Great answer, Brandon. And notice he used the “J” word…just.
In any great performance, they “just do it.”
When I asked Laird how he hit for the cycle, he said, “I worked my way to a hitter’s count and just got a good pitch to hit.”
Laird went on to become Eastern League Player of the Week and then Eastern League Player of the Month. It is amazing to see such an amazing athlete, but the thing I like most about Brandon Laird is not his athletic ability. The thing I like most about him is that he is a great person who has great character. He’s already in the Major Leagues, if you ask me.
Watch the video below for part of our conversation…
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