In my senior season of high school baseball, I spent a good amount of time down at University of Southern California learning from a very famous pitching coaching 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 sunny SoCal day during a session together, Tom said something to me I would never forget.
"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 most people, that's pretty discouraging. However, when you really think about it, there's a whole lot more to it.
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 can become something great or choose to hide in the shadows. The choice is completely yours and no one else can make it for you.
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.
That's the game of life.
You are the one who knows how much effort you are giving.
The only way you can shape your life and become something entirely different than what you were before is to make completely different decisions than the ones you were making before. It's that simple.
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.
So make the decision that you're going to own those 80% days and become a champion.
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 sunny SoCal day during a session together, Tom said something to me I would never forget.
"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 most people, that's pretty discouraging. However, when you really think about it, there's a whole lot more to it.
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 can become something great or choose to hide in the shadows. The choice is completely yours and no one else can make it for you.
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.
That's the game of life.
You are the one who knows how much effort you are giving.
The only way you can shape your life and become something entirely different than what you were before is to make completely different decisions than the ones you were making before. It's that simple.
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.
So make the decision that you're going to own those 80% days and become a champion.
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