In my last season of baseball, I spent a great deal of summer days down at USC learning from a famous pitching coaching named Tom House.
While Tom had an average career as a baseball player, he became famous because he was the pitching coach for the most historic 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%."
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.
If you are going to wake up feeling "average" most of the time, you truly get to decide whether you become a champion that day or stay with the rest of the pack.
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 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.
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.
So if you want to get to the end of your life knowing that you gave it your all and that you actually lived your own life, then you have to make the choices that are necessary to do that. You have to live into your dreams.
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.
While Tom had an average career as a baseball player, he became famous because he was the pitching coach for the most historic 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%."
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.
If you are going to wake up feeling "average" most of the time, you truly get to decide whether you become a champion that day or stay with the rest of the pack.
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 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.
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.
So if you want to get to the end of your life knowing that you gave it your all and that you actually lived your own life, then you have to make the choices that are necessary to do that. You have to live into your dreams.
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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