"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
- Peter Drucker
If you have not yet figured it out, I am a HUGE sports fan. I love almost any sport as long as it is fun and competitive in nature. Even Nintendo Wii can be great sport with the right competitors.
The interesting thing about sport is that it is, on occasion, a GREAT tester of character and resilience. Most commonly, this is UNCOVERED when a team or player is being "blown out" of a game (i.e. You are losing badly). It is the MINDSET of a great coach that helps the team or player get back in the game.
Coaches are BRILLIANT in the manner of setting short-term goals. They do not expect you to run the extra sprint to get back on defense in the fourth quarter, rather, they KNOW you want to and force you do get under 10 seconds in your sprint exercises at practice. A coach does not want you the team to overcome a 20-point deficit by the end of the game; they want to cut it to 10 points in the next 6 minutes.
2 DEGREE SUCCESS STEP:
Preparation is the precursor to EXECUTION. Preparation is not a one-time shot though. You cannot go to the gym today for 10 hours and get the same results as going to the gym ten days in a row for an hour.
Coaches are great at breaking down goals into MANAGEABLE, bite-size, chunks. Are the goals CHALLENGING? Yes. Do they HURT to get to and require great EFFORT? Of course. Are they UNATTAINABLE? NO WAY!
As you break down your workday today, think as a coach would. Bust your day up into small, manageable tasks that you give 110% FOCUS towards and do not cease working on until completed (because you know a coach will not let you quit to do something different).
If you plan like a COACH, execute like an ATHLETE, you will WIN like a CHAMPION!
Cheers,
Zach
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