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.
Tom wasn't necessarily an incredible MLB prospect, but was rather made famous because he was the pitching coach for one of the most famous pitchers 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%."
Isn't that amazing? Isn't it amazing that about 80% of your days you are going to feel completely average. Nothing special about the day. No incredible feeling in your body. Just the feeling of being average.
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 can either become something or stay with everyone else.
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 your greatest decisions will be made in the dark. No one will be watching you. No one will be there to keep an eye on you. It's just you and your own internal voice deciding your fate.
But that truly is the nature of the beast. The point is this...
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.
So if you want to make it to the end of your life knowing that you gave it your all, then you have to truly go for it.
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.
Tom wasn't necessarily an incredible MLB prospect, but was rather made famous because he was the pitching coach for one of the most famous pitchers 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%."
Isn't that amazing? Isn't it amazing that about 80% of your days you are going to feel completely average. Nothing special about the day. No incredible feeling in your body. Just the feeling of being average.
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 can either become something or stay with everyone else.
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 your greatest decisions will be made in the dark. No one will be watching you. No one will be there to keep an eye on you. It's just you and your own internal voice deciding your fate.
But that truly is the nature of the beast. The point is this...
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.
So if you want to make it to the end of your life knowing that you gave it your all, then you have to truly go for it.
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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