Post-Lifting Session
Wednesday July 21, 2010
I feel great. I had a great lifting session. An hour and a half of hard work. I can definitely see a change in my mind set already. The more I think about the purpose behind what I'm doing, It becomes easier for me to push harder. I have been thinking a lot about being the best once again and what it's going to take to do so. In high school I was the best in my District, the best in my Region but when it came to the State Championships, I didn't perform at the level I think I should have.
One reason is because I didn't honestly work that hard in practice or outside of practice. Grant it I did play soccer and run track in the same season, so I did workout a lot but that still didn't amount to success necessarily on the field or track. I never did extra work, I never did anything to necessarily be better than those guys, I was just VERY talented. But I am learning in college that talent does not always beat skill. Some guys have it and some guys don't. If you have it it's more about refining what you have and making yourself more efficient and eventually superseding what talent you have currently.
Talent doesn't always beat hard work. Even if you're the most talented person in the world, you still have to work hard to keep that level of talent you already posses at the highest possible level it can be. Trust me I learned that from experience. Every time I was complacent either during my training session or weight room sessions, I didn't compete at the level I wanted to. It can ALL be contributed to a part of my life when I was not EXCELLENT. So everyday I make it a point to do "something, anything" to get better. Whether it's 1000 crunches, 200 push-ups, or stretching. Everyday you have to do something to help you reach the level of excellence you want to perform and compete at everyday. And to reach even higher heights, you have to strive to reach those heights. No person who was ever called great, sat around waiting for their greatness to fall in their laps from the sky. Working harder may not pay off all the time but if you know that you've worked as hard as you possibly could, then you will have no regrets.
Newt Gingrich once said, "Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you've already did."
I take that quote to heart because it's so true. You have to grind hard to achieve great things. Being lazy never made anyone successful. Even a thief works hard not to get caught. I'm not saying you have to go out and cheat and steal to be the best, but even a burglar knows the fundamentals principles of practicing his/her craft to become good at it. I hope this post inspires you to be better than you were the day before. There's always someone working hard when you're not; somewhere.
Signing off,
D
Wednesday July 21, 2010
I feel great. I had a great lifting session. An hour and a half of hard work. I can definitely see a change in my mind set already. The more I think about the purpose behind what I'm doing, It becomes easier for me to push harder. I have been thinking a lot about being the best once again and what it's going to take to do so. In high school I was the best in my District, the best in my Region but when it came to the State Championships, I didn't perform at the level I think I should have.
One reason is because I didn't honestly work that hard in practice or outside of practice. Grant it I did play soccer and run track in the same season, so I did workout a lot but that still didn't amount to success necessarily on the field or track. I never did extra work, I never did anything to necessarily be better than those guys, I was just VERY talented. But I am learning in college that talent does not always beat skill. Some guys have it and some guys don't. If you have it it's more about refining what you have and making yourself more efficient and eventually superseding what talent you have currently.
Talent doesn't always beat hard work. Even if you're the most talented person in the world, you still have to work hard to keep that level of talent you already posses at the highest possible level it can be. Trust me I learned that from experience. Every time I was complacent either during my training session or weight room sessions, I didn't compete at the level I wanted to. It can ALL be contributed to a part of my life when I was not EXCELLENT. So everyday I make it a point to do "something, anything" to get better. Whether it's 1000 crunches, 200 push-ups, or stretching. Everyday you have to do something to help you reach the level of excellence you want to perform and compete at everyday. And to reach even higher heights, you have to strive to reach those heights. No person who was ever called great, sat around waiting for their greatness to fall in their laps from the sky. Working harder may not pay off all the time but if you know that you've worked as hard as you possibly could, then you will have no regrets.
Newt Gingrich once said, "Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you've already did."
I take that quote to heart because it's so true. You have to grind hard to achieve great things. Being lazy never made anyone successful. Even a thief works hard not to get caught. I'm not saying you have to go out and cheat and steal to be the best, but even a burglar knows the fundamentals principles of practicing his/her craft to become good at it. I hope this post inspires you to be better than you were the day before. There's always someone working hard when you're not; somewhere.
Signing off,
D
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