"Rational Thinking"

How do we stay focused, "locked in", on top of our game? I remind players I coach that professionals 'get after it' even when they don't feel their best. They do that through the primacy of ACE...attitude, choices, and effort. They control what they can control.

Whether you are a student, an athlete, a business owner, manager, or employee, you control not what happens to you, but how you respond to it.

I have a saying about the "Ration" sisters and how important they are. I have a custom wristband that I got long ago at a "Minyanville" function from the Ruby Peck Foundation. It reads, "aspire to inspire." The "little" Ration sister are Aspi and Inspi. The big sisters, the one to look up to are Prepa and Perspi.

• AspiRation
• InspiRation
• PREPARATION
• PERSPIRATION

Some of you will be going back to school, but ALL of us have continuing education in our jobs, our avocations. As you return to school, have you completed your summer reading, grown your study habits, committed to time management in the fall, including reducing "wasted time?" 

I'm writing this while I take a break from reading Greg Harmon's "Trading Options: Using Technical Analysis to Design Winning Trades." The other books sitting adjacent to me are "Maximize Your Potential" edited by Jocelyn Glei, "What Drives Winning" by Brett Ledbetter, and Patrick Lencioni's "Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team." Reading drives learning, learning drives action, and results drive motivation. 

If you haven't enjoyed as much success as you want academically or athletically, what is holding you back?