In my senior season of high school baseball, I spent a good amount of time down at University of Southern California learning from a very famous pitching coaching 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%."
Incredible. 80% of the days we are just going to feel ok.
Now that may seem like a nasty realization about life, but there's a secret to all of this.
If you wake up feeling average 80% of the days you go into this life, you get to make the decision to become something great or to fall down and be average or even worse.
You can become something great or choose to hide in the shadows. The choice is completely yours and no one else can make it for you.
This decision to either become something or to hide away is usually done without an audience at all. It's just you and yourself sitting and waiting to decide to become something.
Most of the time your greatest decisions will be made in the dark. No one will be watching you. No one will be there to keep an eye on you. It's just you and your own internal voice deciding your fate.
And that's the game of life.
You are the one who knows how much effort you are giving.
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.
So if you want to get to the end of your life knowing that you gave it your all and that you actually lived your own life, then you have to make the choices that are necessary to do that. You have to live into your dreams.
Because if you don't, you will live in endless regret.
So make the decision that you're going to own those 80% days and become a champion.
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%."
Incredible. 80% of the days we are just going to feel ok.
Now that may seem like a nasty realization about life, but there's a secret to all of this.
If you wake up feeling average 80% of the days you go into this life, you get to make the decision to become something great or to fall down and be average or even worse.
You can become something great or choose to hide in the shadows. The choice is completely yours and no one else can make it for you.
This decision to either become something or to hide away is usually done without an audience at all. It's just you and yourself sitting and waiting to decide to become something.
Most of the time your greatest decisions will be made in the dark. No one will be watching you. No one will be there to keep an eye on you. It's just you and your own internal voice deciding your fate.
And that's the game of life.
You are the one who knows how much effort you are giving.
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.
So if you want to get to the end of your life knowing that you gave it your all and that you actually lived your own life, then you have to make the choices that are necessary to do that. You have to live into your dreams.
Because if you don't, you will live in endless regret.
So make the decision that you're going to own those 80% days and become a champion.
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