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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Fill Your Toolbox of Excellence

High school sport careers fly by. Excellence tools catalyze the rest of your life. Control what you can control - attitude, choices, effort. Find what works at home, the classroom, and the office. Get inspired; be inspiring. 

Effort 

  • "Champions do extra."
  • "Do the unrequired work." 
  • Author Dan Pink says, "do five more."
  • "How you do anything is how you do everything."
  • Make effort your superpower. 
  • "Always do your best," one of the 'Four Agreements'

Choices 

  • Are you spending your time or investing it? Invest in yourself.
  • You become the average of the five people closest to you.
  • Study more effectively, using Pomodoro technique (25 minutes on, 5 off). 
  • Approach problems better with Feynman technique (name, define, research, summarize). 
  • Do "Whatever it takes" to become successful.
  • Avoid distraction from doing what it takes. 
  • Find mentors. "Mentoring is the only shortcut to success." 
  • Be coachable. 
  • Find "edges" to improve your performance.  
  • Be an "AND" player, not a "BUT" player. Don't have coaches qualify your talent with "but she has issues." 
  • Study your mentors' mentors. Usher studied Michael Jackson's and James Brown's mentors.
  • Build great habits. 
  • Put process ahead of results. "Trust the process." 
  • Put people ahead of things. Put the person ahead of the player. 
  • Learn to use analogies. 
  • Ask better questions. "What if?" 
Attitude 

  • Be positive. A negative attitude never yields positive life.
  • Bring energy and energize your teammates. 
  • Great players make everyone around them better. 
  • Bring the best version of yourself each day. 
  • Choose "get to" not "have to." I 'get to' work hard today.
Lagniappe (something extra). 

 Lagniappe 2. 

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