In my final season of baseball in high school, I took a few trips down to USC to attend pitching camps with a very famous coach named Tom House.
What made Tom House definitely wasn't his baseball career as a MLB pitcher, but rather the fact that he was the pitching coach of the most famous pitcher of all time. Nolan Ryan.
On a very hot day while throwing a bullpen together, Tom imparted some brilliant advice onto me.
"Evan. 10% of the time you are going to be amazing, 10% of the time you are going to suck worse than imaginable, and 80% of the time you are going to be just average. Champions are made in that 80%."
Incredible. 80% of the days we are just going to feel ok.
For some, that may seem like an unfortunate realization to come by. But there's a secret to all of this.
The secret is this...you get to choose how your day is going to go when you make the decision to rise to the challenge or to fall to pieces. That is completely up to you.
You get the choice of either rising to the challenge or sinking back down into the depths. You get to make the decision to do the hard work and grind through it all or give up completely. But that decision is completely up to you and on you to make.
This decision to either become something or to hide away is usually done without an audience at all. It's just you and yourself sitting and waiting to decide to become something.
Most of the time no one will ever witness the decisions you make during the day. However champions always have a fire inside of them that keeps them moving forward.
And that's the game of life.
You are the result of the decisions you have made in the past.
You know how much you put into something and what it really takes to get to where you want to go. If you know that, and you are willing to dedicate the time and make sacrifices, you can do anything with those 80% days and take advantage of what this life has to offer.
To make it to the end of your life knowing that you gave it your all would lead to a lot of big smiles in your final moments. You knew that you really did it and gave your heart the best chance it had to see it's wishes through.
Because if you don't, you will live in endless regret.
Make the decision that you're going to be a champion of those 80% days.
What made Tom House definitely wasn't his baseball career as a MLB pitcher, but rather the fact that he was the pitching coach of the most famous pitcher of all time. Nolan Ryan.
On a very hot day while throwing a bullpen together, Tom imparted some brilliant advice onto me.
"Evan. 10% of the time you are going to be amazing, 10% of the time you are going to suck worse than imaginable, and 80% of the time you are going to be just average. Champions are made in that 80%."
Incredible. 80% of the days we are just going to feel ok.
For some, that may seem like an unfortunate realization to come by. But there's a secret to all of this.
The secret is this...you get to choose how your day is going to go when you make the decision to rise to the challenge or to fall to pieces. That is completely up to you.
You get the choice of either rising to the challenge or sinking back down into the depths. You get to make the decision to do the hard work and grind through it all or give up completely. But that decision is completely up to you and on you to make.
This decision to either become something or to hide away is usually done without an audience at all. It's just you and yourself sitting and waiting to decide to become something.
Most of the time no one will ever witness the decisions you make during the day. However champions always have a fire inside of them that keeps them moving forward.
And that's the game of life.
You are the result of the decisions you have made in the past.
You know how much you put into something and what it really takes to get to where you want to go. If you know that, and you are willing to dedicate the time and make sacrifices, you can do anything with those 80% days and take advantage of what this life has to offer.
To make it to the end of your life knowing that you gave it your all would lead to a lot of big smiles in your final moments. You knew that you really did it and gave your heart the best chance it had to see it's wishes through.
Because if you don't, you will live in endless regret.
Make the decision that you're going to be a champion of those 80% days.
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