Not THAT you are motivated, but WHY, makes all the difference in the outcome. For every real truth, there is always a counterfeit. Those who succeed really just live in reality a little bit more in every area of the pursuit than everybody else. So your perspective on WHY you compete in the first place needs to be very, VERY grounded in reality.

Training your body to be comfortable being uncomfortable at an ever - increasing level of discomfort ... is ... hard to do. Hard things deter people. So to go again and again and again to the threshold of your limits of discomfort in order to raise the ceiling of your capacity, you better have CRYSTAL clear vision of the destination to keep getting back into the habits of unusual discipline.

The physical simulation of successful performance plants seeds that eventually grow into the propert mind / muscle connection it takes to win. But it also plants seeds of faith it takes to believe the shoots and branches are fruit are coming, even when the sun is not shining ...

Sitting on the sidelines watching somebody else do what you know YOU can creates a fear of missing out ... IF you do not understand the opportunity that it presents.

Game Time is the end of the journey. Not the beginning. It's the test. The right answers should already be there.

Despite winning, establishing the IDENTITY of a WINNER takes a next level of resolve.

Leadership takes the fire first. It absorbs the fear and recycles it into fuel for everyone else to run faster, longer, and more often. It takes a vision to forge ahead into the dark when no light exists to show you the way ... except the one inside your mind.

Setting your sights on the right prize is the game in itself. And only YOU decide who wins. Why are YOU gonna pay the price that must be paid to win. What counts as a victory? What’s your goal? What motivates you to respect something enough to endure all you’ll have to endure to gain it?

Wanting to own the clutch moment is the crown jewel of a winner. One of the values of age vs. youth is the understanding that you don’t get an unlimited number of chances.

The first step of a winning mentality is having an uncompromising insistence that victory CAN happen. The next step is the HOW TO part of winning. Set the goal, look for the right strategy, and execute the strategy to accomplish the objective. This part takes a student-like approach. It looks at the facts, but isn’t defined by the facts because facts can be subject to change… but only with the power of truth. The only strategy that wins every time is a made up mind for truth.

Nobody wants to lose. But when they do, they always want to say they lost to the champ. The bigger the Giant you have to slay, the more glorious the victory from the battle. So don’t minimize the honor due your opponent. But don’t inflate it either… Your opponent is always to be honored If what you compete for is won by defeating somebody with no honor, then what you win has no honor. No matter who you are, your opponent is worthy to compete with you.

A great player loves instruction. A loser hates it. No matter which one they are right now. Just because the coach isn’t perfect doesn’t mean you’re qualified to point that out. If you can’t take criticism, it’s because you’re focused on the struggle and not the prize. And you’re focused on the struggle because you don’t believe you can win. And you hate that criticism because it reminds you that you’ve already quit.

Champions have their identity in who they are because that gives them the ultimate tool; a firm, lasting foundation to build not just a bank account balance or a trophy case, but a legacy.