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Passion: Articles that deal with the inner drive that we all need to want to MOVE from where we currently are to where we dream to be.
Preparation: These posts reference articles, books, documentaries, speakers, quotes, and other inspirational and formative ideas that I have found that helped me and the people around me.
Practice: Articles in this category have a heavy sports and performance training lean.
Performance: These articles focus on how you go about your work. From networking to communications to finding a better way to do what you do.
Perseverance: Articles in this category speak to the mechanics that we go through both mentally and physically to stay on track and not get STUCK.
The Power to Rise When the Ground Breaks
Everyone loves to talk about resilience—until they actually have to live it. It sounds good in a meeting, looks inspiring on a poster, but in practice, resilience is ugly. It’s scraped knees, sleepless nights, and the quiet grind of showing up again after failure just knocked the wind out of you.
Resilience isn’t optimism. Optimism says, “It’ll be fine.” Resilience says, “Even if it’s not fine, I’ll find a way through.” Optimism looks for a silver lining. Resilience forges one out of fire. It doesn’t deny pain. It doesn’t escape struggle. It uses both as fuel to keep moving when everything else says stop.
Think Like a Champion
I spoke about how to train your mind to overcome the setbacks that come with baseball and life. While speaking to the baseball players, I was looking at the parents because the techniques I teach can be used between the lines and in life.
Life Hack: Change Your Mindset
Derek Jeter once said, “The last thing you think is the first thing you will do.”
If you think you will fail, you will most likely fail.
Your mind will not just “play along”. It will go where you want to take it. When you set a positive mindset, you will succeed more times than not.