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December 24, 2019
Presence
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The greatest gift that you can give someone this holiday season is to be present.
Be 100% fully engaged present.
Give presence over presents.
Happy Holidays.
December 21, 2019
Two New Releases by JohnA Passaro
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December 20, 2019
Be the First One Back to the Circle
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The only pace
Is a suicide pace.
And today is a good day to die.
Steve Prefontaine
There is a split-second to decide.
You have just given every ounce of energy you had to win your match.
The buzzer just rang, and it’s asking for more.
The match is tied.
You sit there on one knee in disbelief, contemplating how in the world after giving everything you had that the score can be tied.
It is at that moment when the clock starts ticking.
Before the very first tick, the next tick, you must decide.
Do you stop for a moment, admit being tired and doubt that you can go on?
Or do you take massive immediate action knowing you have more to give even after given everything you had?
The fight is asking for more.
The split-second decision you are about to make will dictate your fate.
I’ve seen it a million times, when the final whistle blows and both wrestlers sit there spent after given their all, the first wrestler back to the circle will ultimately win the match.
Always remember your mindset will always take you further than your body wants to go.
When you have given everything, and you don’t know if there is anything left to give, remember your why and more will appear.
Show your opponent that you are ready, willing, and able to do everything to win.
That you will never be broken and that you will fight forever.
That the pace he is going to need to beat you is a pace that he doesn’t have.
Decide early on to always be the first person back to the circle.
You always have more to give.
Always Be the First One Back to the Circle
Is a chapter from
Which can be purchased at
December 19, 2019
We All Have Chatter In Our Heads
Every wrestler has chatter in his head, both good chatter and bad.
If you want to make a leap from one year to the next in wrestling,
Feed the good chatter in your head.
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December 18, 2019
The Wrestlers Hallway of Heartbreak
We’ve all been in that hallway before.
Every wrestler has agonized in the hallway of heartbreak after a tough loss.
Its what a wrestler does after leaving that hallway that will determine his fate as a wrestler and as a man.
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Earned Not Given
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Luck is not chance,
It’s toil.
Fortune’s expensive smile is
Earned.
Emily Dickinson
The current millennial generation is known for its sense of entitlement.
Wrestlers are known for their work ethic and their ability to earn their way.
Wrestling should be a mandatory course in life.
It would solve a lot of problems our society is currently facing.
If I were creating the curriculum for the mandatory wrestling course for life, it would look like this:
Wrestling & Life 101 – Set a goal, have a vision.
Wrestling & Life 102 – Create a plan.
Wrestling & Life 103 – Attempt to execute the plan.
Wrestling & Life 104 – Fail in your attempt to execute the plan.
Wrestling & Life 105 – Persevere through discouragement and disappointment with action and passion.
Wrestling & Life 106 – Rest and restart with a newly revised plan.
Wrestling & Life 107 – Keep making adjustments to the plan until the plan is nearly flawless.
Wrestling & Life 108 – Execute in the big spot.
Wrestling & Life 109 – Be humble, have gratitude, give back.
Wrestling & Life 110 – Set your sight on a new goal, with a new vision.
Earned Not Given
Is a chapter from
Which can be purchased at
You Win or You Learn
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If we shall be quiet
And ready enough,
We will find compensation
In every disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau
You win, or you learn.
When you adjust your thinking that a loss is not a loss, but rather it is a learn, then both the win and the loss will prove to be beneficial to your success.
When you incorporate “You win, or you learn,” you will always win because in both cases you come out ahead.
Tom Brands said,
“When things don’t go the way that you want them to go, get the next best thing.”
When your goal is to win, and you don’t, the next best thing is to learn why.
Expect, then inspect, then apply.
You Win or You Learn
Is a chapter from
Which can be purchased at
December 17, 2019
Making It Hard On Purpose
Monday Night Wrestling Motivation with Mike Patrovich
When it gets hard you have a choice to either fight through it or to take the easy way out.
There is no guy that ever won anything that ever mattered to him without saying it was really hard to do.
You don’t get to your goals by taking the easy way out.
Every time you get in those situations you find a way to grit your teeth and fight through it.
Make it hard on purpose.
Mike Patrovich
December 15, 2019
Do Your Everyday’s Every Day
Your life is a sculpture.
Chip away,
Every day.
J.R. Rim
Greatness begins when practice ends.
It is not what you
do during a scheduled practice which makes you great.
It is what you do
after one that does.
Early in his career,
an elite wrestler will realize that the scheduled practice will only take him
so far.
That if he wants to
get better, he must work on fundamentals and techniques that are specific to
his success on his own after practice.
Every wrestler has
moves and defenses that he will use in a match.
These moves and
defenses must be mastered.
Singles, mat
returns, single defense, leg defense…
After their mastery,
these techniques and skills must be kept sharp by drilling them every day.
There is not enough
time in practice for everyone to drill
their specific moves, defenses, and
technique.
They must be done individually,
on your own time.
After practice, you will see the
great ones take an extra twenty minutes to drill the techniques that are vital
to their success.
To keep them sharp.
I call this extra practice – “Everyday’s.”
To keep their mastery, they must be
drilled every day.
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In his infamous ESPY speech, a dying Jimmy Valvano said,
“To me, there are
three things everyone should do every day.
Number one is laugh.
Number two is think.
Spend some time in thought.
Number three, you should have your emotions move you to
tears. It could be happiness or joy.
But think about it, if you laugh, think and cry, that’s a
heck of a day.
If you do that seven days a week, you are going to be
special.”
Here are Everydays for life.
Do something for someone who has no
way of repaying you, every day.
Say “I Love You,” to the people that
you care about, every day.
Say,
“I’m sorry,”
“Thank you,”
“I believe in you,”
“I’m here for you,”
“I’ll be right over,”
Every day.
Amaze someone who thinks they know
you best, every day.
Touch someone’s soul, every day.
Listen intently to your soul, every
day.
Appreciate from your core the life
that you have been given, every day.
Find gratitude, even when,
especially when the circumstances are such that gratitude doesn’t seem to be
warranted.
Getting in your life’s, “Everyday’s,” every day, is what makes life great.
Do Your Everday’s Every Day
Is a chapter from
Which can be purchased at
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December 9, 2019
Respect the Sport And the Sport Will Respect You
Knowledge will give you power,
But character respect.
Bruce Lee
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The Merriam-Webster
dictionary defines respect as,
“A feeling of deep admiration
for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or
achievements.”
If you as a wrestler do the
work necessary to become successful, whether success is reached, or not, people
involved in this sport will notice.
If you as a wrestler develop
the qualities that are necessary to go to battle against adversity and your integrity
in times of turmoil remains true, people involved in this sport will honor you.
If you are one of the lucky
ones that achieve great things in this sport, the people in this sport will
applaud you.
Understand, achieving great things is measured by the distance from where you started to where you finished.
It is not measured by
standing at the highest point on a podium for a few seconds.
Some of the greatest
achievements in the sport of wrestling occur by those whose measured distance
is unknown by others.
In those situations, you will
earn the highest form of respect.
Your own.
Respect the Sport And the Sport Will Respect You
Is a chapter from
Which can be purchased at
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