Recently, Yankee pitcher, Phil Hughes (above) was put on the Disabled List due to a “dead arm.”
Today, Hughes made a rehab start for the Trenton Thunder. He looked good to me. Here are his stats: 6.1 innings pitched, 3 hits, 1 run, 2 walks, 8 strikeouts.
Injuries and adversity are part of the game, whether your game is sports, sales or school. So it’s not what happens to you, it’s how you react.
In sports and life, there will always be setbacks, but it’s our reactions that determine our results.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-Vince Lombardi
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This morning, while I was working out, I dropped down for some pushups. The average person can do 20 pushups. When I was in serious training years ago, I would perform pushups with a 15-pound plate on my back, so that when I would do regular pushups, I could do 60 almost effortlessly.
It’s been a while since I have done pushups, and an even longer time since I have done them with a 15-pound plate on my back, but I was warmed up and optimistic.
I dropped down, and was able to do 20 pretty easily and at 30, I began to feel it and thought that I couldn’t do anymore. I wanted to stop.
But I didn’t.
I pushed through the feeling of “I can’t do anymore” and then reached 40. And then 50. I had to really reach down and push to get to 60, and I did.
How many times have you been at the gym, at work or at school and thought, “I can’t do this” or “I can’t do that” and then you stop? It’s happened to all of us.
The secret is that you can act differently than how you feel.
Push through it.
Say “No, thank you” to your limiting belief.
Muhammad Ali said, “Suffer now and spend the rest of your life as a champion.”
Now, doing 60 pushups probably does not qualify me as a champion, but that’s not the point.
It’s the principle. I am training myself to act differently than how I feel.
That’s what champions do.
Why would you condition yourself to give up?
Why would you tell yourself you can’t do something?
What if you asked yourself a more powerful question, like, “HOW can I do it?”
If you remember nothing else from this blog entry, remember this…
Success doesn’t come in bottles, it comes in “CANS.”
You can do it.
Leave your comments below.
Ed Tseng
Director of Mental Conditioning
Monroe Sports Center
609.558.1077
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Today’s message is especially dedicated to the great Debra Wachspress.
This morning I ran into Debra Wachspress, Director of Community Engagement at the Boys and Girls Club of Trenton at the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting. I had never met her in person, but we had exchanged emails as I prepared to speak at the Boys and Girls Club last month. At the end of the Princeton Chamber meeting, Debra came up to me and said, “I have to tell you something. Prior to your speaking at The Boys and Girls Club, I was on your website and watched some of your videos. Now, because of you, I exercise every night!”
Wow, that motivated ME! I didn’t even know she has been on my website!
Now, because Debra has been working out consistently for the past three weeks, it is actually harder for her NOT to exercise than it is for TO exercise.
It is now a habit.
Here’s another way to look at it…
It’s better to do a little, A LOT than it is to do A LOT, a little.
If you know the goal you want to attain, make it important enough and you will stick with it.
Thank you for the motivation, Debra!
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You can change your life. You don’t wait for someone else to do it for you.
—Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, 11-time gold medal paralympian
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I’m reading a great book right now by one of my favorite authors, “Rules for Revolutionaries” by Guy Kawasaki.
In this book, Kawasaki talks about a concept elegantly named, “eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.”
Most people have it wrong, Kawasaki says, referring to the fact that when someone says you eat like a bird, you don’t eat much. But the truth is, compared to their body weight, birds DO eat a lot. A hummingbird, for example eats about 50% of its body weight in one day.
Poop like an elephant. This one needs no explanation, elephants have about 165 pounds of poop a day.
How does this apply to sports and life?
Eat like a bird—take in a lot of information about your sport, business or major in school. Read, watch videos, talk to experts, etc. The more you know, the better off you will be (as long as you take action).
Poop like an elephant—disperse the information you acquire. Share with your teammates, co-workers and fellow students. If you do this, everybody wins (and you are forced to learn even more).
And while we are on the topic of animals, do what the title of Brian Tracy’s book says…
Eat That Frog!
This means, do the thing that you don’t feel like doing first! Make the important thing the important thing.
You may KNOW that you should eat like a bird and take in as much knowledge as you can…but that doesn’t mean you WILL.
You may KNOW that you should poop like an elephant and spread your knowledge to others…but that doesn’t mean you WILL.
A true champion does what he needs to do, when he needs to do it, whether he feels like it or not.
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It’s not about hocus-pocus, it’s all about focus-focus.
I may not know you, but I know something about you—you want to be great at something. How do I know this? Because you’re reading this blog. It doesn’t matter what you want to be great at, it could be sports, business, school, a musical instrument, or cooking. The strategy is the same.
Most people think success has to do with magic. They think that “one day” success will come to them. But the truth is, it’s not hocus-pocus, it’s focus-focus.
What are you focusing on?
You might have a great idea, but a great idea is nothing if you don’t take action.
Here’s a secret formula: K – A = 0 (Knowledge minus Action equals Nothing).
You probably know what to do, but you are not doing what you know.
1. Take a piece of paper, an index card, post-it note, anything to write on.
2. Write down one goal you would like to attain today, e.g. practice, workout, make 10 sales calls, send your best client a free gift.
3. Then write down exactly where, when and how you are going to do it.
4. Just do it.
5. Remember, motivation is not a feeling, it’s an action.
Thanks for reading.
Ed Tseng
Director of Mental Conditioning
Monroe Sports Center
609.558.1077
