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 hot sunny day and after about 60-70 pitches in a bullpen, Tom looked at me and said words that I would never forget.
"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.
Now that may seem like a nasty realization about life, 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.
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.
But that truly is the nature of the beast. The point is this...
You are the one who knows how much effort you are giving.
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.
And I'll be damned if I let the latter option happen in my life.
So decide that you are going to make the most of those 80% days and become a champion. Have the best year of your life.
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 hot sunny day and after about 60-70 pitches in a bullpen, Tom looked at me and said words that I would never forget.
"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.
Now that may seem like a nasty realization about life, 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.
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.
But that truly is the nature of the beast. The point is this...
You are the one who knows how much effort you are giving.
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.
And I'll be damned if I let the latter option happen in my life.
So decide that you are going to make the most of those 80% days and become a champion. Have the best year of your life.
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