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.
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 either become something or stay with everyone else.
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 days no one will ever see you put the time and effort in to become a champion.
And that's the game of life.
You are the sum result of the decisions you have made in the past. Don't like how things are now? Make different choices.
The only way to become something different is to dedicate time and effort towards your dreams and to live up to a higher standard that falling into an average 80% day.
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.
If you don't, you will live in regret.
Make the decision that you're going to be a champion of those 80% days.
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 either become something or stay with everyone else.
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 days no one will ever see you put the time and effort in to become a champion.
And that's the game of life.
You are the sum result of the decisions you have made in the past. Don't like how things are now? Make different choices.
The only way to become something different is to dedicate time and effort towards your dreams and to live up to a higher standard that falling into an average 80% day.
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.
If you don't, you will live in regret.
Make the decision that you're going to be a champion of those 80% days.
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