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April 2, 2013
Day (437) – The Review
To all 12,278 loyal followers,
Thank you so much for all the support with my book so far. I have one small favor to ask of you. I need for those who have read the book to review it on Amazon & iTunes. I want to continue writing books (and putting out audio versions) and with some help, that passion will only touch more and more people around the world. So if you could do me a huge huge huge favor and click one of the following links (or paste your review to both, EVEN BETTER) I would be absolutely honored.
Review or Read my Book! Amazon (http://amzn.to/Z0xZXT) iTunes (http://bit.ly/10ix2JQ)
- Evan Sanders
Day (436) – The Power Within
Looking back on it
On how I got to where I am
I dont know if it was because I was running towards something
Or running away from it
But that didn’t matter
What I did know is
When you run into something
Something bigger
Something meaner
Something with the power to knock you down
You have to trust in yourself
Trust that you can get back up
And not give in
Ever
Cause power isn’t just about going forward
It’s about not letting anything hold you back
You find it in yourself
You can go anywhere you want
- Patrick Willis (Duracell Commercial)
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- Evan Sanders
April 1, 2013
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March 29, 2013
Day (435) – Tomorrow
I promise you, tomorrow will never work out the way you think it will.
Tomorrow is a reason.
Tomorrow is an excuse.
Tomorrow will not save you.
Tomorrow will not build you.
Tomorrow is…not enough,
For what you could do today.
- Evan Sanders
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March 27, 2013
Day (434) – It Made a Man of Me
I didn’t know it at the time, but after I heard that pop, it was the last pitch I would throw competitively for a school team. I’m glad I didn’t know it at the time because that moment would have been even more agonizing – I couldn’t even imagine that. I remember being in the trainers office after it all happened and I had this feeling that something had been torn out of my chest. Well it’s not hard to imagine that my heart was gone. There was a big deep black pit in my chest after arguably the best season of my life so far. No more.
I wrote a long time ago about the countless doctors visits, the agonizing physical therapy, and all that came with having surgery on my elbow, but I didn’t write about one story…and that’s what I want to write about today.
After I went down, I was ordered by the doctor to take 6 weeks off from throwing due to multiple stress fractures. So I did, and I still went to practice every day. I tossed the coach baseballs while he was hitting grounders for the team. I helped the other pitchers out with mechanics and bullpen sessions. I underhand tossed kids batting practice with my other arm. I tried to do everything possible I could to help those guys out who were still playing. But that big black pit was still in my chest.
I remember walking onto the mound one day after practice, standing up there nice and tall like I had just a couple of weeks before, and then as I looked down, I saw the developing hole in the clay where the pitchers foot pushes up against the rubber. In fact, that whole area was falling apart. I walked over to the bullpen mounds…the most horrid mounds you have ever seen in your life – same deal. I knew what I was going to do at practice until my arm recovered.
I rebuilt those mounds every single day. They were pristine. Our pitchers would walk up on them and give me the ,”Way to go Colonel” (my nickname in case you didn’t know). They would then proceed to tear them apart, dig into them, and then leave without any remorse. That was part of the game. So, after each practice, I would spend my time rebuilding those mounds. Stamping clay into the landing spots, making everything even, and combing the soft dirt over the slope. Water it down. Cover it up. Ready for the next day.
It made a man of me. It made a man of me because every single day, I would go do something for other people. I would never throw off of those mounds again – but that didn’t mean I couldn’t make them as good as I could for those who were still going after their dreams. But it also made me a man because every single day, I would start fresh and then watch uncontrollable things happen to my mound. Without hesitation, I would go back to the mound, grab the rake, do my job and even find ways to do it better than the last time. Those mounds arguably turned into better mounds than the main one everyone used to pitch off of – the one that received the most attention. Isn’t this how life works? You have a gift each and every day. The gift of a fresh start, and whatever life throws at you seems to drag you down a bit (whether that is self-inflicted or uncontrollable). As the days continue to go by, I learn more and more that you can either look at your mound in horror…or you can go back to work, each and every day, and make your life’s mound the best it can be. That is what The Better Man Project is about. That is what my day-to-day looks like. Learning. Raking. Stamping. Watering. And in the end, I watch myself grow.
- Evan Sanders
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March 26, 2013
The Big Hairy Filthy Goal
“The Better Man Project is a look at my daily journey towards becoming a better man, as well as a glimpse into the valuable lessons I learn along the way.”
The goal is to get on Amazon & iTunes Top 100 bestselling books for my genre…a big hairy filthy goal. Im coming after you Bill Clinton. LETS GO! Time to make our mark on the world 
(Book is $4.99)
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B89PDJU
iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-better-man-project/id597721991?mt=11
Love. Passion. Never Quit.
- Evan Sanders
Day (433) – We Learned It All In Kindergarten
Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandbox.
These are the things I learned. Save everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and sing and dance and play and
work every day some.
Take a nap in the afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up, and nobody really knows why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice — and even the little seed in the plastic cup — they all die. So do we.
And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The golden rule and love and basic sanitation.
Ecology and politics and sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then laid down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations always to put things back where we found them and
cleaned up our own messes.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
- Robert Fulghum
March 25, 2013
Day (432) – How Far You’ve Come
Sometimes you have to look back and see how far you have come. I know its difficult when you spend so much time looking at your goals + appreciating the current moment…but I think it is necessary to give yourself credit where the credit is due. As time has gone on, my view of the past for me has changed drastically. It used to be a place I lived in – then it turned into a place that I feared – then to a place where I looked for inspiration – and most of the time now, it has become a time of my life that I can smile at. I think, out of all things, this the biggest change that I have ever gone through. Because if you can control your view on your story, you have the power to create a new one.
Take a look back, tip your cap to your story, and then go get the new one. Before you can accomplish anything in life, you have to accept your current condition. You can’t keep running from it, because it is your shadow. It is only when you accept the fact that it is indeed your shadow can you begin a new journey to create a new shadow. The fact is, you can never split yourself from your past…but you can always drastically change what you are doing now, because after that moment, you have created something that will make its mark on your story.
How will your story read at the end of your life?
- Evan Sanders
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March 24, 2013
Day (431) – Give, Give, Give
I think we all know that it isn’t just about us. We don’t go through this life completely alone. In fact, we would lose all of the joy in life of spending time with other people if we did. I truly believe that our happiness comes from filling the buckets of others and in turn having those around us fill us up as well. In my book, I wrote about one of the hardest things for me to overcome: losing loved ones. I think that this is one of the biggest challenges humanity faces. In a world where things come and go, it can be often vicious in what it takes from us before we even thought it would. But as time went on, I came to learn to accept that this was all part of a balanced cycle. The cycle of life. Give and take.
As I look at the quote above, I feel some closure to a concept that I have been thinking about for a while. There is something inside of me that loves to give unconditional love to people. To keep trying and keep showing them that I care no matter what. Which I truly do. I can’t tell you how many times that love though on the surface seems to be ignored or it is left unanswered. It stings a little bit…but I always try to remember that it is not personal. I have some people around me that take great care of me and consistently motivate me to become something better. They elevate me and it means the world to me. And as I look into my life and see those times where I have been left unanswered, I no longer meet it with hostility, but with that same unconditional love I was talking about – because most of the time, those are the ones that need it the most.
- Evan Sanders
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