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.
Tom wasn't necessarily an incredible MLB prospect, but was rather made famous because he was the pitching coach for one of the most famous pitchers of all time, Nolan Ryan.
On a sunny SoCal day during a session together, Tom said something to me I would never forget.
"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%."
Isn't that amazing? Isn't it amazing that about 80% of your days you are going to feel completely average. Nothing special about the day. No incredible feeling in your body. Just the feeling of being average.
For some, that may seem like an unfortunate realization to come by. 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 either become something or stay with everyone else.
While this may seem like a small decision to make, it is truly one of the most fundamental choices you can make.
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.
But that truly is the nature of the beast. The point is this...
You are the result of the decisions you have made in the past.
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 make it to the end of your life knowing that you gave it your all, then you have to truly go for it.
If you don't, you will live in regret.
So make the decision that you're going to own those 80% days and become a champion.
Tom wasn't necessarily an incredible MLB prospect, but was rather made famous because he was the pitching coach for one of the most famous pitchers of all time, Nolan Ryan.
On a sunny SoCal day during a session together, Tom said something to me I would never forget.
"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%."
Isn't that amazing? Isn't it amazing that about 80% of your days you are going to feel completely average. Nothing special about the day. No incredible feeling in your body. Just the feeling of being average.
For some, that may seem like an unfortunate realization to come by. 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 either become something or stay with everyone else.
While this may seem like a small decision to make, it is truly one of the most fundamental choices you can make.
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.
But that truly is the nature of the beast. The point is this...
You are the result of the decisions you have made in the past.
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 make it to the end of your life knowing that you gave it your all, then you have to truly go for it.
If you don't, you will live in regret.
So make the decision that you're going to own those 80% days and become a champion.
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