MESSAGE #1075 YOUR ABC’S…
Always remember your ABCs…
Ability, Breaks and Courage
and…
Always Behave Confidently.
Have a great Saturday, everyone!
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MESSAGE #1074 AAIIWITF
I have recently worked with an elite athlete who was in a slump. They were not performing at their peak.
Most slumps are in athletes’ heads. They try to change their technique, but that doesn’t help.
They need to change their minds.
When you are in a slump, you go into the competition expecting to fail.
When you are on a streak, you go into the competition expecting to succeed.
So how do you get out of a slump?
AAIIWITF
Act As If It Were Impossible To Fail
Go into the competition (or school, or work, etc) and act like the person you want to be.
Then tell me what happens.
MESSAGE #1073 TEAMWORK
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.
Enthusiasm is contagious.
Start an epidemic.
MESSAGE #1071 I’D LIKE TO GIVE YOU SOMETHING
I write this blog for several reasons…
I want to motivate you.
I want to inspire you.
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.
MESSAGE #1070 THE WORLD’S LONGEST BLOG ENTRY
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!
MESSAGE #1069 YOU ARE A BAMBOO TREE
When you plant bamboo seeds, nothing happens for the first year. Or the second year, the third year, or the fourth. But in the fifth year, the bamboo tree does something amazing – it will grow about two and a half feet every day for six weeks until it is approximately ninety feet tall.
You are a bamboo tree. You are germinating right now.
Keep learning. Keep working hard.
And one day you will shock the world.
MESSAGE #1068 TALKIN’ BASEBALL
Today’s message is especially dedicated to the great Brandon Laird, 3B for the Trenton Thunder (Double-A, New York Yankees).
Brandon Laird currently leads all of professional baseball with 77 Runs Batted In in 72 games.
He was named Eastern League Player of the Week and Player of the Month.
He was only the second Thunder player to hit for the cycle on May 26, including a walk-off home run.
Two nights ago, he hit a grand slam and a three-run home run (for the second time this season).
Did I forget any impressive stats? Probably.
I have been fortunate to spend some time with Laird over the past month. His numbers are amazing and his attitude is even better. He is truly a class-act and is mentally tough beyond his years.
After last night’s game, I spoke with Laird and he was telling me how he was in a bit of a “funk” last week.
I asked him how he got out of it and he said, “At first I thought, ‘What am I doing?’ then I thought about what I was doing well before and tried to focus on that. I just trusted that it would come around because failure is part of baseball.”
Laird was persistent in his approach and stayed optimistic. As most great athletes do, he focused on his effort, not his results.
I had to ask Laird about his streak and having the most RBIs in professional baseball.
“You know, I’m just taking it one day at a time. I have a plan, I try to hit the ball hard and have a good at bat,” commented Laird.
Tonight is exactly one month since I first spoke to Laird, which was the same night he hit for the cycle with a walk-off home run.
I will be talking to #29 again before the game and we’ll see if he can continue to stay hot with his bat. I have a strange feeling he will.
Play ball!
MESSAGE #1067 HOW BAD DO YOU WANT IT?
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.
MESSAGE #1066
If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.
-HERSCHEL WALKER