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One of the best forms of stress relief is exercise. You can go to the gym, go for a run or play some tennis. It doesn’t matter what you do as long as you do something. Ask Michael Jordan…

“When I step onto the court, I don’t have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It’s like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.”

-Michael Jordan

So incorporate fitness into your daily routine. I call it “preventive medicine” because you don’t want to wait until you are sick or injured to start taking care of your body. And don’t give me that “Well, I’m not THAT out of shape” nonsense. You only have one body…make it work for you and make it last. Your physical health will help your mental health and your mental health will help your physical health.

The next time you feel stressed, do something active. Or better yet, exercise regularly and PREVENT stress.

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Today’s message is especially dedicated to the great Chris Wu.

Caring is good. Worrying is not.

There’s a difference. You could care to do well in a tennis tournament, but if you worry about if you’re going to do well, then you’re in trouble. Look below at the two different mental scenarios that could take place…

Scenario #1: It’s before your first round match in a tennis tournament and you are really excited to compete and do well. You really WANT to win. You can’t wait to test all the strategies that you’ve been working so hard on in practice.

Scenario #2: It’s the same tournament, but you are worried that you will perform poorly. You start to get nervous and worry about what will people think if you lose.

How do you think you will perform in each scenario?

I met a great young lady recently who is worried about taking her LSATs. I hope she reads this blog because…

Caring makes you powerful.

Worrying makes you weak.

Care enough to work hard, but don’t worry about the results. They will come as a by-product of focusing on the process.

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“When you’re courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.”
-Albert Einstein

Some things in life may be unavoidably difficult, painful, or scary, but the successful person learns to disregard the temptation to take the easy path. The truth about doing difficult things is that if you keep doing them, in most cases, they eventually become easier…
One person’s difficulty is another’s ease…it’s all relative.

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Today’s message is especially dedicated to the great Alissa Goldsmith.

Recently, I gave a talk to the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce on the topic of Peak Performance in Business and Life. Relationships are the key, but the challenge is that everyone is different. Our thought processes and perceptions may not be the same, however, there is no right or wrong – only differences.

We tend to think that everyone else is just like us, but the truth is that we all have our own view of things. We think how WE perceive things is the RIGHT way, but in actuality, there is no “right” way. Three different people could read the same book and put it down with three different views of it. Each of their views is equally real.

So the next time you disagree with someone, try to look at it from THEIR point of view and you may have a different opinion about it…you may even like their perception better.

So reality is whatever we think it is.

“We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think.”
-The Buddha

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Today’s message is especially dedicated to the great Scott Kance.

I have a feeling that someone reading this blog has lost.

Perhaps you have lost a tennis match.

Perhaps you have lost a job.

Perhaps you have lost a bet.

There is no way that you can go through life without losing. In fact, all of the successful people in the world have probably lost the most. You can’t change the fact that you have lost, but what you CAN change is…

Your perception. How you react. What you learn from it.

Start getting more comfortable losing, and something amazing will start to happen…

You will start to win more.


Defeat is bitter, only if you swallow it.


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