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Age wrinkles the skin. Quitting wrinkles the soul.Douglas MacArthur
A simple truth that I learned at a young age:
There is someone out there with more talent than me, working hard trying to succeed. The only way I can beat him is if I work harder than him. If I don’t, he’ll have the success that I could have had. He’ll reach the heights that I was meant to reach but didn’t because I didn’t work hard enough, or smart enough.
Sport doesn’t build character, it reveals it.
I grew up playing hockey. At the age of 3 my Dad strapped skates on to my tiny feet and sent me out on the ice. From that day on, I fell in love with sports. Even more-so, with competition. Little did I know that the most valuable lesson sports would ever teach me is that someone else is out there risking more, working harder, and doing more to succeed than I am.
In high school, basketball took over as my primary sport. The lesson was then drilled home by a coach, who was actually more of a friend and a mentor. A guy who would teach me more about hard work than anyone else in my life up to that point.
It’s interesting how we schedule our days according to our priorities – for the most part at least…
We think about the things that are most important to us first, then segment down from there. If having fun with friends is the most important thing to us, then that’s the first thing we’ll think about and set aside time for first. If family is the most important thing to us, then we’ll schedule family first. But if you think about it, that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
We’re not putting the majority of our quality energy towards the things that will benefit those areas of our lives that we care about most.
“The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place. And I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there if you let it. You me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you can hit, it’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward.” ~ Rocky Balboa
What a great speech. It kind of jolts you back into reality. And it’s not a pessimism/optimism thing either, it’s just a guy – Rocky – spitting some wisdom to his son – Robert.
I don’t know if it’s a generational thing, but a lot of people my age, or maybe just a lot of people in general – including myself from time-to-time – have this sense of entitlement. I think we all understand that good things happen with hard work, but at the same time we expect things to fall in our lap. We expect things to just “happen” – for big breaks to simply occur. We hear about billionaires in their twenties, guys like the facebook guy, the google guys, and so on. Guys who are wildly rich at a young age, and we expect the same kind of thing to fall in our laps someday.
Good things happen in the extra mile, just ask Rocky Balboa.
I’m sure we’ve all heard the phrase, “go the extra mile.” Well there’s a reason why people say it. Good things happen in the extra mile, when you put that extra bit of work in, no matter what we’re talking about; whether it be our careers, with our families, girlfriends, boyfriends, and of course, in our training.
Successful people in any area of life are always the ones who put the most quality work into what they’re working towards. If you want a better family life, spend more quality time with your family. Go that extra mile in the stuff you care about, and in the dreams you’re trying to make a reality.
It’s not always how much, but the quality of the time you’re putting in…
I used to spend a lot of time in the gym, but I was doing all the wrong stuff. I spent at least double the amount of time working out before, than I do now, but I’m getting infinitely better results now, spending less time training, doing the right things at the highest level possible.
