12 Lessons From a Lifetime Athlete
12 OF THE BEST LESSONS FROM A LIFETIME ATHLETE (WITH A LIFETIME TO GO)
The inner athlete never dies, it only evolves. The habits and patterns you develop today are the foundation for future goals. Be intentional about what you create and never stop learning.
Goals deferred, or important games lost, will sting. Sometimes that sting doesn’t go away, ever. You can reconcile it in your life and you can move on, but the sting teaches us our goals matter. It teaches us not achieving something we’ve fought and trained for is an important part of learning and growing.
Best thing to take the edge off the sting is to get up and go again. Not to punish yourself, but to see what could happen if you got up and tried again.
We each have our own dreams and path through life. Let others dream their dreams and keep yours in a safe place for you – even the ones that don’t happen.
The most epic things comes from the most basic people. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise. Grandiose epicness is not sustainable. Don’t chase it.
Chase consistent work and good character instead.
Age is a number. It’s the number that tells you how many years you have played or trained. How many years you haven’t. How many years you took to figure things out once you stopped playing. How many years it took to get back in the gym after an injury. Though it’s a number, it’s not a prison sentence nor does it define you, so don’t treat it like one. Age is more of a reference point.
Whether you’ve won championships together or lost too many matches to count, your teammates are always your teammates. The result is not as important as what you did together during that season. The hours training, the hours traveling, the hours doing work when nobody else was doing work – that is where life happens. Some victories cannot be measured in points. Good teammates are the best victories.
Winning at life doesn’t always show up on a scoreboard.
Belief in yourself only comes because someone else believed in you first and there are more of those people than you think.
You are only as strong as you are stable. In life. In sports. In relationships … and also in your scapula.
When you show up and work every single day, success (and how you define it) becomes part of the equation. It’s easy math.
