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Being a great player gives you attention. What you do with it gives you impact. KC Concepcion is using his platform to encourage kids who stutter. He wants them to feel confident enough to speak up and pursue their goals. The game gives him an audience. His example gives that audience something to carry with them.

Most people want what success gives them. Few want what success requires of them. They want the reward without the sacrifice. The recognition without the preparation. The results without the daily discipline. You don’t earn what you want. You earn what you’re willing to work for.

Hard work doesn’t guarantee success. It guarantees an opportunity. Hard work gives you a chance to compete, a chance to improve, and a chance to be ready when the moment arrives. Earn the opportunity before you ask for the result.

The best players don't need to constantly prove what they can do. They're too busy developing what they can't do yet. The best players aren't concerned with looking capable. They're committed to becoming more capable.

Great players take responsibility for their performance. Great leaders take responsibility for their impact. Individual success means very little if it doesn't contribute to team success. 🎥pat.haggerty4

Everybody wants a bigger role. Not everybody is willing to master the one they have. The best way to prepare for a bigger role is to be exceptional in the one you have. Don't let your ambition for more become an excuse for doing less.

The scoreboard tells you whether you won. It doesn’t tell you whether you improved. Great teams can celebrate the result without becoming blind to what still needs to get better.

Give your goals something more than good intentions.  “Someday” makes no demands. Today requires you to take action. Give your goals something more than good intentions.

Stop wasting your mistakes Every time you fall short, you have something to learn. Stop worrying about how failure makes you look. Focus on how it can make you better.

Belief means doing the work before the results give you a reason to. The game will test your belief before it rewards it. You’ll put in work that doesn’t show up on the scoreboard. You’ll make progress that hasn’t turned into wins. Keep showing up. Keep correcting mistakes. Keep competing.

Don’t wait for a bigger role to bring a bigger commitment. Your role can change in one play. Your habits can’t. The work you’ve done comes with you when you step into the game. So does the work you’ve avoided. Make today’s preparation worthy of tomorrow’s responsibility.

Every player wants to be part of a winning team. Not every player is willing to live by the standards it takes to build one. Your standards aren’t defined by what you say. They’re defined by what you do.

“Be responsible for your own self determination, that’s accountability.” Great players understand that being coached is an opportunity. Getting better is a responsibility.

You can't compete freely when you're constantly worried about the result. The best competitors don't allow the scoreboard to dictate their effort, confidence, or focus. They stay present, trust their work, and compete to their standard. Jake Bauers on 🎥Fox

Coaching, when done right, is a cause not a career. Impacting the scoreboard is important to keeping our job, but never the reason we do our job. The goal is to win in games. The mission is to help build people who win at life.

Plenty of people have what it takes. Few give what it takes.   That’s where the separation happens.

You can’t expect exceptional results with an ordinary commitment. "Whatever you want in life you are going to have to sacrifice something. If you want a lot, you are going to have to sacrifice a lot. What you put in, normally you get out."

Wanting a result doesn’t make it happen. Taking responsibility for what you control gives you a chance. Value the work. Stay committed to the process. Let the results follow. Bob Bowman knows this better than anyone else: "Value the process more than any particular outcome. Outcomes largely depend on what other people do and we have no control over that. What we do have control over is ... the way that we choose to train, the standards that we hold for ourselves, the attitude we bring to our work. If we focus on controlling the controllables, the outcomes will naturally flow from that."

Give your energy to what earns the result you want. “When you worry about results, like so many people in our society do, it makes it tough to ever be happy. We don’t concern ourselves with the results, we try to focus on what exactly it is we want to achieve Unbelievable effort, toughness, resiliency. If you do that, you’ll get good results.”