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If you choose the goal, you also have to choose the work that comes with it.
If you want to be great, you don’t get to decide each day whether great effort is necessary.
You already made that decision when you set the goal.
If you commit to the goal, commit to the cost.
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DO YOUR JOB
“One of the things I liked most about working for you,” Saban said to Belichick, “I knew exactly what to expect [and] what you expected from me. I worked other places and that was never, ever clearly defined. It’s amazing to me how many people work with or for someone and it’s just assumed that they know what you’d like them for them to do. I thought that whether it was the players that we brought to the team, the people that worked in personnel or whatever, you defined for them and then you let them do their job.”
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YOUR SENIOR SEASON WAS A FAILURE.
For thousands of high school seniors, last night was the final time they’ll ever put on that uniform. For others, that night is coming soon.
And for some of you, your senior season was a failure.
But not because of your record. Not because you missed the playoffs. Not because you didn’t get that scholarship.
It was a failure if you didn’t learn what the season was actually trying to teach you.
Let me explain.
I was fortunate enough to play high school football in a program where we won. A LOT. We won a state championship. Winning was practically an expectation.
And looking back, I think my senior season was a failure in some ways.
Why?
Because I thought life worked like football did for us. Show up, work hard, push the WIN button, and everything works out.
Life doesn’t have a WIN button.
I played high school football alongside guys who are now multimillionaires, doctors, lawyers, and successful business owners.
Know how many of them played college football?
None.
I was the only one.
But they took something from those Friday nights that was worth far more than a college scholarship.
They learned how to handle adversity. How to be accountable. How to work with people they didn’t always agree with. How to respond when things didn’t go their way.
And here’s what I promise you.
Someday, you’re going to face something difficult.
It might be in your career. Your marriage. Your friendships. Your family.
You’re going to get knocked down. You’re going to question yourself. You’re going to wonder whether all the work is worth it.
And somewhere in that moment, something will click.
“Man, my high school coach told me that 20 years ago.”
And you’ll realize that coach wasn’t just preparing you for Friday nights.
They were preparing you for life.
So, to the senior whose team went 2–7…
To the senior who never made the playoffs…
To the senior who didn’t get the accolades…
To the senior who didn’t get the college opportunities they dreamed about…
Your senior season was a SUCCESS.
IF you allow it to be.
Because the greatest thing you can take from high school sports isn’t a trophy, a record, or a scholarship.
It’s the ability to face the next difficult chapter of your life and know you’ve been there before.
Your season is over.
What it taught you should last a lifetime.
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"I want it more than they do.”
That mindset changed the way I approached football, and eventually, it became something much bigger than football.
Because wanting it more isn’t about Sunday at 1:00 when 65,000 people are watching.
It’s about Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday when nobody is watching.
It’s choosing to be relentlessly committed when it’s hard, inconvenient, or uncomfortable.
Do that long enough and it becomes a habit. Then it becomes a tool you can carry into every part of your life — your career, your relationships, your health, your goals.
Wanting it more can be the difference between where you are and where you want to be.
So ask yourself: How badly do you want it? And what are you willing to do when nobody is watching?
Find A Way. Every Day.
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“If you want to be good, you really don’t have a lot of choices because it takes what it takes. You have to do what you have to do to be successful. You have to make choices and have the discipline, focus on the process of what you need to do to accomplish your goals,” Nick Saban
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Nick Saban explains one of the biggest threats to continued success.
"Success is not continuous. Just because you're having success doesn't mean you're going to continue to have success."
Past success guarantees nothing. You have to earn it every day.
"When you have complacency and you get satisfied, it creates a blatant disregard for doing the right things."
And here's the danger:
"You start to resent the very things that got you where you were."
You can't resent the process. Success starts with showing up, doing the work, and living the details.
"We pride ourselves in hard work. 'I resent that. I resent the hard work that you're making us do. Why are we running sprints?' Well, we always ran them. This is exactly what we did last year on this day. 'Well, I don't think we need to do that anymore.'"
Complacency is the enemy of excellence.
You combat it with a mindset of growth - never satisfied and always earning.
(🎥CarBiz Today )
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Dan Campbell on the difference between good vs. great vs. elite players in the NFL.
“It's mindset. It's willpower...They really believe that the little things add up to the big things and nothing is too small. Everything matters.”
Talent can give you an opportunity, but an unwillingness to be outprepared, outworked, or outlasted is often what allows you to make the most of it.
📹: Coach2Coach Podcast
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Horizontal movement, feed the covered guy the defender. Progression teaching of the gap double using a gallop.
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Kurt Warner shares the lesson that changed his entire career and it applies to everything.
He sat on the bench for 4 years in college. When a friend asked the coaches why he wasn't playing, the answer wasn't what he expected:
"The reason I wasn't playing was because I was not very good in practice."
His first reaction? Allen Iverson mode.
"Practice? What're you talking about, practice?"
But then he did the math.
"In college we play 12 games in 365 days. In the NFL we play 16 games in 365 days."
That's less than 5% of your year.
"95% of our lives are lived in practice. And the biggest impression we make on people, the way people can understand and really realize who we are, is what we do every day in practice."
This is the 95% Rule. And it applies to everything - sports, business, relationships, life.
1: Show Up With Your Best Effort - Compete and give your best every single day. People can't question how you show up - your effort, attitude, and actions. Consistency removes doubt.
2: Trust Is Built In Practice, Not Games - Trust is earned in the thousands of moments before it's given. Before you can be trusted, people want to know you're dependable. Every day. Not just when it matters.
3: Master Daily Consistency - Success isn't about intensity - it's about consistency. Your habits compound. What you do daily defines who you become.
4: Big Moments Are Earned In Small Moments - The little details make the biggest difference. Greatness starts with preparation - it's earned in the boredom of doing the work when no one's watching.
Excellence isn't an event - It's a habit.
Practice is where trust is built.
How you show up daily is who you really are.
(🎥 @pttorch)
(🎥@kurt13warner)
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Every training camp I had at Washington State University, Coach Leach would share the same story.
The story of two kids. The rich kid and the poor kid.
The rich kid has two choices. He can become spoiled, entitled, lazy, and expect everything to be handed to him because he has been given more. Or he can take every advantage of what he has been given—resources, coaching, opportunities—and use it to become even better.
The poor kid has two choices too. He can say, “I never had a chance. Nobody gave me anything. The world is against me.” He can feel sorry for himself and use it as an excuse. Or he can say, “I may not have what they have, but I am going to outwork everybody.” He can become tougher, more driven, and more relentless than everybody else.
It was a powerful message in a locker room full of people from different backgrounds, different families, and different life experiences. Some guys came from wealth. Some came from almost nothing. Some had every opportunity. Others had to fight for every inch.
But despite all of those differences, everybody still had the same choice.
You can take ownership and use what you have as fuel.
Or you can become victim-minded. You can look for excuses, blame your circumstances, become entitled, and convince yourself that because of what you have—or because of what you do not have—you cannot become what you want to be.
It is not about how you start. It is about what you choose to do with how you start.
The rich kid can waste what he has been given or use it to build something greater. The poor kid can use his circumstances as an excuse or as fuel.
In the end, greatness does not come from starting with more or less. It comes from which person inside of you that you choose to feed.
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Mike Paramore retweeted
Kurt Warner shares the lesson that changed his entire career and it applies to everything.
He sat on the bench for 4 years in college. When a friend asked the coaches why he wasn't playing, the answer wasn't what he expected:
"The reason I wasn't playing was because I was not very good in practice."
His first reaction? Allen Iverson mode.
"Practice? What're you talking about, practice?"
But then he did the math.
"In college we play 12 games in 365 days. In the NFL we play 16 games in 365 days."
That's less than 5% of your year.
"95% of our lives are lived in practice. And the biggest impression we make on people, the way people can understand and really realize who we are, is what we do every day in practice."
This is the 95% Rule. And it applies to everything - sports, business, relationships, life.
1: Show Up With Your Best Effort - Compete and give your best every single day. People can't question how you show up - your effort, attitude, and actions. Consistency removes doubt.
2: Trust Is Built In Practice, Not Games - Trust is earned in the thousands of moments before it's given. Before you can be trusted, people want to know you're dependable. Every day. Not just when it matters.
3: Master Daily Consistency - Success isn't about intensity - it's about consistency. Your habits compound. What you do daily defines who you become.
4: Big Moments Are Earned In Small Moments - The little details make the biggest difference. Greatness starts with preparation - it's earned in the boredom of doing the work when no one's watching.
Excellence isn't an event - It's a habit.
Practice is where trust is built.
How you show up daily is who you really are.
(🎥 Passing the Torch Podcast)
(🎥 @kurt13warner)
