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.
What made Tom so famous wasn't his own career in the MLB as a pitcher, but the fact that he was Nolan Ryan's (the most famous pitcher of all time) pitching coach.
After about 60 pitches in the bullpen (all of which he was dead silent) he turned to me and said...
He said to 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.
That may seem like a pretty bitter realization about life, but there's a final piece to all of this that really makes the lesson worthwhile.
You get to decide how your day is going to go. You can either rise to the challenge or let your day slowly dwindle down into the depths.
The choice is yours. But you have to set an intention for the day. You have to be willing to do what is hard...especially when you aren't feeling up for it. Because that's where the champions are made...
Even though those decisions don't have an audience, they are the foundations to your integrity as a human being. They may seem like small choices, but eventually they add up and make a huge impact on your life.
Most of those hours you spend working your tail off on something will never be seen by anyone.
But that's the nature of the beast.
You know how much effort you are giving.
You know how much time you put into something and how much effort you really devoted to becoming the best person you could be. Further, you know that you decided to take that 80% "meh" day and turn up the heat so you could make it a fantastic day.
Because when all of this is said and done, you'll either look back on your life knowing you gave it your best and there was nothing left on the table for you to do or you will live in regret.
That's really the only way to do it. Go big or go home.
So create an intention for yourself. Make a request to yourself that you are going to level up and make this year the best year of your life.
What made Tom so famous wasn't his own career in the MLB as a pitcher, but the fact that he was Nolan Ryan's (the most famous pitcher of all time) pitching coach.
After about 60 pitches in the bullpen (all of which he was dead silent) he turned to me and said...
He said to 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.
That may seem like a pretty bitter realization about life, but there's a final piece to all of this that really makes the lesson worthwhile.
You get to decide how your day is going to go. You can either rise to the challenge or let your day slowly dwindle down into the depths.
The choice is yours. But you have to set an intention for the day. You have to be willing to do what is hard...especially when you aren't feeling up for it. Because that's where the champions are made...
Even though those decisions don't have an audience, they are the foundations to your integrity as a human being. They may seem like small choices, but eventually they add up and make a huge impact on your life.
Most of those hours you spend working your tail off on something will never be seen by anyone.
But that's the nature of the beast.
You know how much effort you are giving.
You know how much time you put into something and how much effort you really devoted to becoming the best person you could be. Further, you know that you decided to take that 80% "meh" day and turn up the heat so you could make it a fantastic day.
Because when all of this is said and done, you'll either look back on your life knowing you gave it your best and there was nothing left on the table for you to do or you will live in regret.
That's really the only way to do it. Go big or go home.
So create an intention for yourself. Make a request to yourself that you are going to level up and make this year the best year of your life.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is a professional life coach at AYKME coaching. Dive into this article called The Meaning Of Integrity or these quotes on Changing For Life to get some motivation to move forward!
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