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Tom Brady is a celebrity quarterback and 3-time SuperBowl champion with the New England Patriots. Six quarterbacks were drafted ahead of him in the 2000 NFL draft. His story demonstrates how our own motivation can drive us to higher accomplishment.
In today’s show I play the audio from this YouTube video segment of ESPN’s The Year Of The Quarterback – Tom Brady.
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Millions of people enter each work day hopeful. Hopeful that today will be better than yesterday. Hopeful that yesterday’s problems will grow smaller.
You know the adage, “Hope is not a strategy.” It’s a great saying, but sadly, for too many people it’s not true. Hope is the only strategy some people employ.
And it’s not because they’re stupid or foolish.
Many people don’t how to do it any other way. Day after day they hope. Some days it works out. Many days, it doesn’t.
Today’s show has one goal – to help you learn how to get started. I’ll warn you there are no secrets and no super easy shortcuts. But everybody can improve. Everybody can start.
Think of your life as a resource. A limited resource. We’ll start with that truth and move onto a few practical tips anybody can implement today – right now – to start feeling better about their work because they’ll be more effective. It’s not just about feeling better. It’s about doing better, which makes us feel better.
Let me know if this helps. I’d love to hear your feedback.
Here are four things to help you get up after you’ve been knocked down and dragged out:
1. Stop feeling sorry for yourself
2. Decide your first step (and your second)
3. Pay attention
4. Make resilience your personal trademark
Watch the video and I’ll explain. Let me know if these help you. Shoot me a message on Twitter.
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Success Isn't Binary
Be a millionaire. What? You’re not already a millionaire? Loser.
All the cool kids are millionaires. They’ve had a killer IPO or acquisition. Banking millions.
That’s true success, achievement and mastery. If you’ve not yet pulled that off, then you’ve got a lot of work to do. Catch up. Get with the program.
Or not.
Truth is, most of us can live the life of our dreams (not the wildest variety perhaps, but still dreams) for $150,000 a year or less. Few of us will achieve millionaire status defined by having a net worth of $1M. Fewer still among us will achieve millionaire status by having liquid assets in excess of $1M. But the world is full of stories that compel us to think everybody is more successful than we are. The world loves to help us all feel like losers.
Suddenly, gratitude, thanksgiving and simply feeling good about our life are out the window. All because we’re drawn to compare ourselves to those at the top of the success pyramid. They have the success we want. They have the good life. By comparison, we’re a failure. We’re poor.
Hog wash! People with a more crude vocabulary will use two different words to describe it.
Today is my 34th wedding anniversary. Perhaps that has caused sober reflection on my life and driven me to a state of higher than normal (for me) gratitude. I hope you can learn something from it. I’m still learning.
